The people! Everyone I met was very nice and very smart. World-class tooling and environments. The engineering culture is excellent. Memegen is your friend.
Base pay isn't as competitive as you might think. They "downlevel" everyone unless you're former FAANG. While they do offer remote, it's not super easy to get remote. Also, my experience joining involved much less swag than I originally expected. That's to say, I never got any Google-branded anything.
Keep doing what you're doing.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.