Great benefits, great projects, lots of perks, great internal mobility.
Awesome health insurance and 401k.
For a software engineer, the choice of project team can be mind-boggling, and excitement and learning can be had in every corner of the company.
It's starting to get crowded at the mid to senior levels and is becoming more bureaucratic. Management quality can be spotty, as management training has not kept pace with rapid hiring, so your experience with your manager can vary.
Career paths at the more senior levels are murky, and it is getting very crowded at mid to senior engineering levels.
Advancement is slow and can be difficult.
Applied at Google Careers. Received a Google Hiring Assessment. Completed it, and then a recruiter reached out to schedule an interview for the initial technical screening. The interview was completely on Data Structures and Algorithms, with a basi
I was first contacted by Google in 2012, a couple of months after I took up my current employment. This recruiter was energetic, interesting, and seemed genuinely interested in finding the right spot for me at Google. Unfortunately, I had just starte
I got a LeetCode medium question, a software design and architecture question, and then some really abstract and strange, open-ended questions not at all related to the job. It felt a little like mockery.
Applied at Google Careers. Received a Google Hiring Assessment. Completed it, and then a recruiter reached out to schedule an interview for the initial technical screening. The interview was completely on Data Structures and Algorithms, with a basi
I was first contacted by Google in 2012, a couple of months after I took up my current employment. This recruiter was energetic, interesting, and seemed genuinely interested in finding the right spot for me at Google. Unfortunately, I had just starte
I got a LeetCode medium question, a software design and architecture question, and then some really abstract and strange, open-ended questions not at all related to the job. It felt a little like mockery.