Awesome fundamentals, struggles with growth
Awesome fundamentals, struggles with growth
Fantastic people who care tremendously about doing the right thing.
Google has grown very fast and is struggling to maintain its culture in the face of all the new people. It also struggles to find consistent product direction now that it's branching more aggressively out of search & ads.
Choose your battles. If you're going to play in product-focused business areas, put the right expertise and incentives in place to make products that work really well. Don't try to do everything, especially in a bottom-up fashion.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer
Multiple levels of interviews, including coding and system design. Primarily based on algorithms, data structures, logic design, etc. Software programming languages included C++ and Python. The interviewers were cordial, and the overall process wa
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Multiple interview rounds. System design and some hard-level algorithm questions. It was a smooth process. They match you up with pretty good interviewers. It is a privilege to interview at that level.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
I had sent my resume to Google for a management position, but when I received a call from a Google recruiter, she asked if I was willing to consider a Senior Staff Engineer position, given my background as a startup founder and CTO. She then told me
Senior Staff Software Engineer
United StatesJune 12, 2022Multiple levels of interviews, including coding and system design. Primarily based on algorithms, data structures, logic design, etc. Software programming languages included C++ and Python. The interviewers were cordial, and the overall process wa
Senior Staff Software Engineer
JapanMay 18, 2022Multiple interview rounds. System design and some hard-level algorithm questions. It was a smooth process. They match you up with pretty good interviewers. It is a privilege to interview at that level.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
United StatesJune 30, 2021I had sent my resume to Google for a management position, but when I received a call from a Google recruiter, she asked if I was willing to consider a Senior Staff Engineer position, given my background as a startup founder and CTO. She then told me
