The benefits, especially the food and fluid hours, are great. So is the fact that everyone around you is incredibly smart.
I think Google is expanding too quickly, and that they are letting in too many people who don't meet the standards.
For example, I knew an employee who claimed that they didn't have any code to show for the past several months of work because their computer's hard drives crashed, yet everyone knows that no one stores code on their own computer; there are version control repositories.
Additionally, I know great people who have not been hired for random reasons, such as failing an interview which required coding in C over the phone.
Change how recruiting works.
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).
LeetCode basically doesn't care about experience or brains. LeetCode is kinda weird, though. But what can you expect from FAANG besides that? Just save your time and energy and apply to a real software company.
The first round was behavioral, focusing on STAR method-type questions. They mostly asked about being a team player and having a positive attitude. This was followed by three LeetCode rounds. Two medium and one medium-hard question were asked durin
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).
LeetCode basically doesn't care about experience or brains. LeetCode is kinda weird, though. But what can you expect from FAANG besides that? Just save your time and energy and apply to a real software company.
The first round was behavioral, focusing on STAR method-type questions. They mostly asked about being a team player and having a positive attitude. This was followed by three LeetCode rounds. Two medium and one medium-hard question were asked durin