The salary, stock, and in-office perks such as food and nice facilities are great.
Due to recent changes in org structure, I have seen many teammates leave either involuntarily or just out of being tired. Work-life balance is hard, as many new grads will work late nights and weekends. This causes a very competitive culture where performance is measured by the team's averages or hidden feedback from teammates who are going for promo or are just plainly very focused on looking great for the manager rather than doing a good and fair job.
Bring back several of the features for team-wide development such as "Any time feedback" and open/more transparent feedback performance reviews, where we could suggest peer reviewers.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.