A great company with a great history that still allows you to make contributions that can have significant impact. Awesome work culture.
I used to love this company and thought we contributed a great deal to help the industry and society, and that we could do no harm.
Unfortunately, I don't believe this about the company anymore, and I have recently lost a great deal of confidence in the current leadership team.
The company has recently become run much more top-down than the bottoms-up nature of the years past.
I think the current leadership is causing significant harm to the company to advance Google+ in a flawed way. I think both Google and Google+ would do better without the current leadership's undermining of other company priorities and products to increase traffic to G+.
Users are being harmed, trust is being broken, and goodwill lost. The CEO and leadership team is also taking the idea of 'more wood behind fewer arrows' to an unnecessarily unhealthy extreme, in my opinion.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.