The perks are unbeatable. There are intern activities like a carnival, a baseball game, an Arcade Fire concert, a 5K run, and plenty more.
All of the perks available on the campus, including gyms, 3 delicious meals per day in around 20 different cafes, and random classes taught by other Googlers, are available for interns.
The people you meet at Google are incredibly intelligent and always have cool ideas to talk about, and the work that Google gives you is always challenging and keeps you learning new things.
The culture tries to maintain a startup feeling, but ends up being very corporate. There is heavy emphasis on secrecy around the campus, and there are a lot of internal tools to learn before you can really become very productive. Because all three meals and so many activities are available on campus, the work-life balance becomes hard to maintain, and you end up working much more than 40 hours per week.
Of all the interviews I've ever had, this one was the most disappointing. My experience is in NLP, and I specifically applied to Google for a job doing NLP, either in machine translation, speech recognition, or one of the other many NLP tasks they d
One phone interview, then the onsite interviews. The whole process was smooth and comfortable. For the four-round onsite interviews, I gave solutions for each question and implemented them with few bugs. Except for the last interview, the interviewe
Two rounds of phone interview followed by an onsite interview. First phone interview was about arrays (move all elements of value v to the end of the array), while the second was on string manipulation (find the longest substring with two distinct c
Of all the interviews I've ever had, this one was the most disappointing. My experience is in NLP, and I specifically applied to Google for a job doing NLP, either in machine translation, speech recognition, or one of the other many NLP tasks they d
One phone interview, then the onsite interviews. The whole process was smooth and comfortable. For the four-round onsite interviews, I gave solutions for each question and implemented them with few bugs. Except for the last interview, the interviewe
Two rounds of phone interview followed by an onsite interview. First phone interview was about arrays (move all elements of value v to the end of the array), while the second was on string manipulation (find the longest substring with two distinct c