I personally have awesome coworkers, which isn't true for all the team. The salary is extremely high relative to local wages, and other benefits are also much appreciated (food, gym, events...).
Google Taiwan probably has the median salary of all locations, so there are plenty of places where you could make more.
English levels are pretty low, especially in the Pixel team. They are investing a lot into internationalizing, since there are only so many Taiwanese people they can steal from other companies.
Job types are diversifying too, but most of them, in some way, are related to consumer devices. (This one can be a positive too if you're into it.)
Questions were asked that you'd only know if you studied beforehand, i.e., things you wouldn't use on a day-to-day basis at any job. So even if you've had a software engineer job for a decade, you'll still need to do prep work to interview.
It was a typical Google interview process. Phone Screen: A 60-minute phone screen involving coding. After clearing the phone screen round, I was asked my availability for the interview loop. The interview loop consisted of 4 rounds taken over 2 day
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
Questions were asked that you'd only know if you studied beforehand, i.e., things you wouldn't use on a day-to-day basis at any job. So even if you've had a software engineer job for a decade, you'll still need to do prep work to interview.
It was a typical Google interview process. Phone Screen: A 60-minute phone screen involving coding. After clearing the phone screen round, I was asked my availability for the interview loop. The interview loop consisted of 4 rounds taken over 2 day
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