Google is really a fantastic place to work. You get to engage with challenging, exciting problems at the height of your intelligence, in a community of passionate, brilliant peers.
Google is a huge multinational corporation, so, while they do make an admirable attempt at shielding individual employees from all the bureaucracy and inertia that entails, those downsides are not entirely avoidable.
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
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
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
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
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
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