Good but getting worse
Good but getting worse
- Great WLB for most teams (except for Google Cloud).
- Great salary and benefits.
- You have the ability to ship features that millions will use.
- It invests in junior developers.
- If you get bored, there are many teams to switch to if you live in a major tech hub.
- Your experience can be very team-dependent.
- It is hard to get promoted past L4/L5. You have to constantly prove your work has "impact". This is difficult if your team does not work on something "impactful". There is some politics involved here.
- Increasing layoffs and fear about layoffs.
- Focus on AI means other projects and teams lose resources.
- Classic big company bureaucracy.
- Anything you want to do needs a document (doc). You need to develop a feature: design doc (makes sense). But wait, before you write that doc, you need a doc about the doc (Huh?). But now there are too many docs, you need a doc that summarizes both the docs and links to both docs. Obviously I'm exaggerating, but you will spend more time writing docs that nobody will read than writing the actual 50-line code change.
- Engineers can be incentivized to make needlessly complex implementations of features because it makes them look smarter.
- More stringent about hybrid work (tracking badge-ins to the office).
- Google getting involved in politics and military contracts (Project Nimbus).
- Google stopped DEI initiatives.
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The interviewer called 15 minutes late. He had an accent and a deep voice. I was not able to understand a word, nor the questions. This went on for the whole interview, and I was feeling very uncomfortable. I kept telling him, "Could you please repe
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San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2015From a phone screen, I then went onsite. HR gave good feedback but said there was no offer. They transferred me to another program, and then I had two more phone screens. I failed on a simple problem.
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Mountain View, California, United StatesJanuary 22, 2013The interviewer called 15 minutes late. He had an accent and a deep voice. I was not able to understand a word, nor the questions. This went on for the whole interview, and I was feeling very uncomfortable. I kept telling him, "Could you please repe
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Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOctober 1, 2024Bad experience. It takes a long time for things to move. Then I got a home test that went very well. I passed all the tests, and in the end, they decided not to continue.
