Smart bunch of people, projects that impact millions, leadership willing to take a long view that might take years to pay off, fair scope for decision making even at the bottom of the org chart. Offices, food, and benefits are all icing on top. Amazing opportunities to do big things if you can make the pitch and execute on it.
The promotion process can be slow and painful. You have to be a self-starter to identify a team with opportunities for growth and be really proactive about chasing these.
Working in remote offices can be difficult from a career point of view, depending on what projects are available. Every project I've worked on has felt somewhat Mountain View-centric; you have to adapt to that.
Obamacare is dragging health benefits down (across all companies, or so we're told).
Mobile, mobile, mobile.
A three-hour online phone screen. Questions were pretty basic, something along the lines of elements in a list (finding pairs that sum up to a given number). I had a competitive offer, so the process was streamlined for me.
I applied through the campus career fair and was invited to interview after several weeks. There were two phone interviews. The questions were not too difficult, but I received a rejection.
It was an onsite interview for a full-time position in software engineering. There were four 45-minute interviews and lunch with an engineer in the middle. All four questions involved coding on the whiteboard, and all the questions were (unsurprisi
A three-hour online phone screen. Questions were pretty basic, something along the lines of elements in a list (finding pairs that sum up to a given number). I had a competitive offer, so the process was streamlined for me.
I applied through the campus career fair and was invited to interview after several weeks. There were two phone interviews. The questions were not too difficult, but I received a rejection.
It was an onsite interview for a full-time position in software engineering. There were four 45-minute interviews and lunch with an engineer in the middle. All four questions involved coding on the whiteboard, and all the questions were (unsurprisi