Good Pay, Competent Team
Good Pay, Competent Team
Good compensation.
Good benefits: health insurance, perks.
Competent people.
Possibly uninteresting projects.
It's hard to stand out, hard to promote yourself because people around you are all very good, and hard to assume bigger responsibility. The learning curve flattens out quickly after the first two years, during which you learn a lot of Google infrastructure.
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OA -> Snapshot survey -> Recruiter call -> 4 onsites (3 technical, 1 behavioral) -> Passed onsites -> Passed hiring committee -> Got team match call -> Got team matched
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Preliminary interview with one interviewer, approximately one hour. First, the interviewer asked about a project I completed, followed by a coding question. During the coding question, the interviewer added further complexities to the initial probl
Software Engineer
A Google representative came to my school, and I submitted my resume. After about two weeks, I got a call back for a phone interview. There were two phone interviews back to back, which were challenging but fun. Then, about three weeks later, I recei
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Mountain View, California, United StatesJune 1, 2025OA -> Snapshot survey -> Recruiter call -> 4 onsites (3 technical, 1 behavioral) -> Passed onsites -> Passed hiring committee -> Got team match call -> Got team matched
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2015Preliminary interview with one interviewer, approximately one hour. First, the interviewer asked about a project I completed, followed by a coding question. During the coding question, the interviewer added further complexities to the initial probl
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesMay 1, 2010A Google representative came to my school, and I submitted my resume. After about two weeks, I got a call back for a phone interview. There were two phone interviews back to back, which were challenging but fun. Then, about three weeks later, I recei
