Engineer King, Quality Question
Engineer King, Quality Question
If you're a software engineer, you're among the kings of the hill at Google. It's an engineer-driven company without a doubt. That is changing, but it's still very engineer-focused.
The quality of the engineers is possibly dropping, but possibly not. It's hard to get real metrics, because as the absolute number of people grows, naturally the number of bad apples grows.
Keep the focus on the user. Everything else will follow.
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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
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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.
