Needs culture to shift to shipping and meritocracy
Needs culture to shift to shipping and meritocracy
The best minds in the world work here, although we have lost a few top talents due to bureaucracy, DEI, and politics.
Too much virtue signaling. Some make it even into products (see Imagen fiasco). Risk-averse.
Majority of workers who came through just LeetCode grinding or during COVID low-standard hiring are mostly clueless about running a profitable business or shipping features that users love, or what really matters for building a sustainable organization.
Fire disloyal people who talk bad about Google while collecting $400k+ paychecks (constructive criticism from actually knowing things is different).
Fire coasters.
Fire anti-AI crowd who simply don't get the moment we are in.
Take more risks. Ship faster. Accelerate.
Things definitely improved in 2024, but you could take more risks and ship even faster. Clean up DEI/activists (see Meta).
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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.
