Don't buy the hype
Don't buy the hype
The money is very good, and you don't have to work that hard to skate by. If you just want to cash a paycheck and don't really mind that you're not building anything useful, Google is great.
It's very, very hard to make a good product or do good engineering inside of Google.
Most projects are focused on moving the needle on very narrow metrics that have little to do with actual value.
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A call with Google covered technology concepts and experience. It was a general call, not a coding challenge. The issue arose when the interviewer had a negative reaction to how my current company's workflow had changed during COVID. They decided to
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I had two in-person interviews. The first interview went poorly, and the interviewer provided solid constructive criticism. The second interview went well. After some consideration, they requested a third interview, which also went well, but they
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United StatesMay 10, 2021A call with Google covered technology concepts and experience. It was a general call, not a coding challenge. The issue arose when the interviewer had a negative reaction to how my current company's workflow had changed during COVID. They decided to
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Mountain View, California, United StatesMay 5, 2023I had two in-person interviews. The first interview went poorly, and the interviewer provided solid constructive criticism. The second interview went well. After some consideration, they requested a third interview, which also went well, but they
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United StatesJanuary 1, 2022Very hard. I did not get medium or easy questions; it was straight-up hard questions with little hint. Typing on Google Docs was hard. Hash maps did not work.
