The team is everything
The team is everything
Absurdly good benefits
Flexibility to choose hours (depends on team/role)
Horrid traffic
"Luck of the draw" of landing on a good team -- an unhelpful or hostile manager can sink you with little oversight.
Encourage people to transfer sooner rather than later if they experience a bad fit on their team.
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The recruitment process was quite inefficient, taking several months of back-and-forth to schedule the interview. Fortunately, they provided accommodation for three nights in a nice hotel prior to the interview to mitigate jet lag, which was a plea
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The Google interviewing process is lengthy and slow. The steps I experienced were: * Recruiter phone screen * Coding challenge * Technical phone interview * Onsite (4 rounds of 45-minute interviews) Roughly two to three weeks passed between each st
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I started with two back-to-back one-hour phone interviews, during which I had to code on a Google Doc. Afterward, I went on-site for two one-hour interviews with two people.
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Mountain View, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2016The recruitment process was quite inefficient, taking several months of back-and-forth to schedule the interview. Fortunately, they provided accommodation for three nights in a nice hotel prior to the interview to mitigate jet lag, which was a plea
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2016The Google interviewing process is lengthy and slow. The steps I experienced were: * Recruiter phone screen * Coding challenge * Technical phone interview * Onsite (4 rounds of 45-minute interviews) Roughly two to three weeks passed between each st
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Mountain View, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2018I started with two back-to-back one-hour phone interviews, during which I had to code on a Google Doc. Afterward, I went on-site for two one-hour interviews with two people.
