Not the worst, but will slowly wear down your soul
Not the worst, but will slowly wear down your soul
- The people are generally friendly, knowledgeable, and nice to work with (this may vary wildly from team to team).
- Good compensation/benefits/perks (aside from vacation).
- Good work autonomy.
- Questionable leadership.
- Only 15 days vacation.
- Frequent org changes.
- The promo/performance review process is time-consuming and demoralizing.
- Software engineering work is so steeped in abstraction/monolithic systems and/or may be canceled at any moment, so it's difficult to feel any sort of satisfaction in your work.
Don't push out employees for voicing negative criticism.
Take accountability for your actions.
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I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
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Quick background discussion, and talking with the interviewer, he was quite friendly. However, it was a tough interview; I didn't have enough background knowledge. That said, I enjoyed it. The only thing I would do differently is prepare longer next
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The interviewer had a strong accent, so I couldn't understand him well. Also, he was not too attentive. I could see he was looking at his phone and not paying attention.
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New York, New York, United StatesNovember 24, 2025I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesNovember 11, 2025Quick background discussion, and talking with the interviewer, he was quite friendly. However, it was a tough interview; I didn't have enough background knowledge. That said, I enjoyed it. The only thing I would do differently is prepare longer next
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New York, New York, United StatesOctober 12, 2025The interviewer had a strong accent, so I couldn't understand him well. Also, he was not too attentive. I could see he was looking at his phone and not paying attention.
