What's it like to be a Google engineer?
What's it like to be a Google engineer?
No problem is too large to tackle. You get a chance to work on things not possible elsewhere because of the scale of the resources you have available. You also work with very smart and capable people.
You're given the opportunity to work on your own ideas, but you often find that someone else is working on exactly the same thing. It's hard to find an interesting piece of work that you can call your own.
Also, projects are getting more and more siloed into the different offices, so you will only be able to work on specific projects.
Talk to your engineers more, and solicit their ideas. The company is becoming more and more top-down, with what we work on being dictated from above. Google used to be a much more bottom-up company, with engineers coming up with the ideas and deciding what to work on.
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Very smooth process. The HR was very friendly, but the problem was a bit hard. It was a LeetCode problem with strings. They also arranged a mock-up problem before the actual interview.
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There were a few audio challenges during the call that made it harder than usual for me to catch every detail. The interviewer was conducting the interview from a conference room using a microphone that did not provide clear audio. I had to ask for
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The interview process involved: * One initial screening * Two technical rounds * One behavioral round Candidates answered very slowly after interviews, with at least a month between moving to the next stage.
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Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, PolandNovember 4, 2025Very smooth process. The HR was very friendly, but the problem was a bit hard. It was a LeetCode problem with strings. They also arranged a mock-up problem before the actual interview.
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Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOctober 10, 2025There were a few audio challenges during the call that made it harder than usual for me to catch every detail. The interviewer was conducting the interview from a conference room using a microphone that did not provide clear audio. I had to ask for
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United StatesSeptember 28, 2025The interview process involved: * One initial screening * Two technical rounds * One behavioral round Candidates answered very slowly after interviews, with at least a month between moving to the next stage.
