You get to work on problems at a huge scale. The company is so big and moving around is so easy that you can practically do anything you want.
Google used to be a place of innovation and experimentation. People were encouraged to hack on things, create side projects, and propose projects. Now, upper management wants everyone in "alignment". If you create a side project that benefits thousands of people internally, saves the company money, or fixes longstanding bugs, you get a gentle pat on the back and zero credit at performance review time. I was laid off without warning. People still at the company will join me for lunch, but are so afraid of being fired that they won't even sign me in to let me pick my things up from my desk. About "diversity & inclusion", when you have career events for people based on the way they look, that's called "exclusion".
The CEO, Sundar, taking responsibility for bad decisions, would be resigning, along with other executives who participated, not firing 12,000 people. You must have enough money. Do you really need more?
I have two rounds of phone interviews followed by an onsite with about five interviewers. The phone interviews each last about 45 minutes and are purely technical. The onsite interviews are also all technical. All ask algorithmic questions. One a
Phone screen in coding in a Google Doc. Flew out to Mountain View for 5 hours of interviews, including lunch. Got an absolutely worthless offer that the recruiter called their standard offer. They completely refused to negotiate. I had an offer fr
I had applied online. A recruiter got back to me the very next day, and we proceeded to set up a phone interview for the following week. It consisted of a few algorithm-based questions (file operations, manipulating data, etc.). I did manage to ans
I have two rounds of phone interviews followed by an onsite with about five interviewers. The phone interviews each last about 45 minutes and are purely technical. The onsite interviews are also all technical. All ask algorithmic questions. One a
Phone screen in coding in a Google Doc. Flew out to Mountain View for 5 hours of interviews, including lunch. Got an absolutely worthless offer that the recruiter called their standard offer. They completely refused to negotiate. I had an offer fr
I had applied online. A recruiter got back to me the very next day, and we proceeded to set up a phone interview for the following week. It consisted of a few algorithm-based questions (file operations, manipulating data, etc.). I did manage to ans