One of the best companies for software engineers ever
One of the best companies for software engineers ever
- High-impact projects/teams
- Smart people
- Lots of projects and mobility between them
- Perks/benefits are amazing (12 weeks paternity leave?!?!)
- Don't be evil is still very real (at least better than many big companies this size), though there are obviously varying opinions within 100k employees.
- Everyone is so smart, it's hard to stand out.
- Expect a high level of efficiency/productivity.
- It's harder for low-level engineers to have high individual impact (you get impact by working on projects that have lots of users).
Open up a Y Combinator equivalent for your engineers to go away for 12 weeks and try to start a company. Take 5-7% in the company and provide them the same perks/benefits that YC has.
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Skipped the technical screen and went directly onsite due to a referral. There were 5 onsite interviews: * 4 coding * 1 system design The interviewers were very friendly. The questions were out-of-the-box and difficult, none that I had prepared for
Software Engineer II
I applied through their careers page and submitted my resume. Google engineers also came to speak at my school. They called about two weeks after the tech talk at my school and told me they wanted me to interview on-site. Three weeks later, I was int
Software Engineer II
First, there is a technical interview, focused on your programming skills. Then, a cultural one focused on you fitting into their workplace. Overall, the interview is of average difficulty, and it is okay to say that you don't know something.
Software Engineer II
Mountain View, California, United StatesApril 1, 2020Skipped the technical screen and went directly onsite due to a referral. There were 5 onsite interviews: * 4 coding * 1 system design The interviewers were very friendly. The questions were out-of-the-box and difficult, none that I had prepared for
Software Engineer II
Mountain View, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2015I applied through their careers page and submitted my resume. Google engineers also came to speak at my school. They called about two weeks after the tech talk at my school and told me they wanted me to interview on-site. Three weeks later, I was int
Software Engineer II
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 16, 2025First, there is a technical interview, focused on your programming skills. Then, a cultural one focused on you fitting into their workplace. Overall, the interview is of average difficulty, and it is okay to say that you don't know something.
