Perks are phenomenal! Projects are extremely high impact. The company trusts engineers to "do the right thing" and prefers to give engineers information so they can make decisions, instead of hoarding information to make the decisions themselves. Engineers get all the best tools (big monitors, lots of computing resources) and don't have much red tape getting normal stuff done.
Career progress into management is a little tough, as there's no "Supervisor" role, and the Managers usually have >50 people reporting to them. It can be done, but it's easier to stay in the engineer track.
Management is doing well, but it's getting harder and harder to keep things Googley as the company grows. They need to focus on this more than they do.
Four out of five interviewers were quite nice and friendly. However, my first interviewer was extremely arrogant. My recruiter was also very irresponsible. She didn't show up on the day I interviewed and has never replied to any emails I sent her.
By far my best Big 4 recruitment experience. My recruiters went out of their way to inform me about their process, to make sure that any questions I had were answered, and provided me with materials to prepare for my interviews. My process took lon
Submitted as a req by a Googler. Had a terrible phone interview where the interviewer's phone kept dying, so all communication was through Google Docs.
Four out of five interviewers were quite nice and friendly. However, my first interviewer was extremely arrogant. My recruiter was also very irresponsible. She didn't show up on the day I interviewed and has never replied to any emails I sent her.
By far my best Big 4 recruitment experience. My recruiters went out of their way to inform me about their process, to make sure that any questions I had were answered, and provided me with materials to prepare for my interviews. My process took lon
Submitted as a req by a Googler. Had a terrible phone interview where the interviewer's phone kept dying, so all communication was through Google Docs.