Still many intelligent people to learn from and work with. Fundamentals in many ways are still good, and teams usually have enough independence to insulate them from the ever-worsening behavior of leadership.
Increasingly failing to live up to its mission, increasingly failing to protect its employees, increasingly acting in retaliatory ways toward employees. Things continue to be "okay," but recent changes have really shown there is no backstop on screwing over employees, doing evil in the world, failing to innovate in favor of trend chasing, chipping away at benefits, etc.
Quit your jobs?
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Initial phone screen: 45 minutes. The interviewer arrived 5 minutes late. There was no introduction, and at the end of the interview, no questions were asked. During the interview, I tried to interact with the interviewer, but I didn't find him in
Applied through the Google Careers page. I had a phone interview (coding round) which provided a Google Meet link upon confirming my availability. I initially thought it was just a recruiter call and scheduled it for a week later. However, it turned
I got in with a referral for a coding interview. It was about a LeetCode medium question. It took a bit, but I was able to arrive at and code an optimal solution. About a week later, after following up, I was rejected with zero feedback on what I d