Perks are cool, but co-workers are better
Perks are cool, but co-workers are better
The best and brightest engineers I've ever worked with. It has a very forgiving atmosphere, is easy to change teams if something interesting comes along, and offers lots of opportunity to visit offices in other cities and countries.
Self-induced pressure to "keep up" with the best of the engineers; a few "difficult" personalities.
The increasing number of "siloed" projects is not Googley.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2023I had a series of technical interviews. These were conducted over Google Meet. Each session was with a different interviewer and lasted about 45 minutes. I was asked to solve coding problems in real-time, focusing on algorithms and data structures.
