The company culture is great, and employees are taken care of nicely. Compensation is high. The internal development infrastructure is awesome!
The company is now very big, with a lot of momentum. Google hasn't spent enough effort to ensure they are keeping up with smaller competitors. Sometimes decisions are made a certain way simply because it is easier, not because it is the best way forward.
In the system infrastructure team, it is hard to make an impact because of the massive change it takes to alter things even slightly.
I applied via careers, and a recruiter reached out to me. They are planning to move forward with my profile to schedule a loop interview, which consisted of a total of 4 rounds over multiple days.
It was stressful, given that it was Google. Make sure you sleep well the night before the onsite. The questions were medium and hard, most involving arrays, DP, and recursion. Ask a lot of questions and stop for a moment to think and to make sure you
Simple and fast. Took about two weeks to complete, from the first call to the coding interview. Declined due to the low offer compared to my previous employer. The location also wasn't as expected.
I applied via careers, and a recruiter reached out to me. They are planning to move forward with my profile to schedule a loop interview, which consisted of a total of 4 rounds over multiple days.
It was stressful, given that it was Google. Make sure you sleep well the night before the onsite. The questions were medium and hard, most involving arrays, DP, and recursion. Ask a lot of questions and stop for a moment to think and to make sure you
Simple and fast. Took about two weeks to complete, from the first call to the coding interview. Declined due to the low offer compared to my previous employer. The location also wasn't as expected.