Lots of freedom and public exposure with my project, and awesome opportunities to learn from Google's codebase.
Most of the engineers I worked with weren't unusually talented, and the perks (particularly trips) were often distracting.
The interviewer was a Chinese girl, and her English was too poor to understand. The interview question was about System Design, like YouTube search. She was not clear, so I kept asking her to repeat.
It took two weeks to apply online. I received a response from the recruiter on day 3 and scheduled the interview for the following week. It was a 30-minute phone interview. There was no coding challenge or any other conversation before this. On the
5 rounds of medium to hard level questions and one behavioral. Each round features a different interviewer from different teams and orgs. You get one break among all the interviews.
The interviewer was a Chinese girl, and her English was too poor to understand. The interview question was about System Design, like YouTube search. She was not clear, so I kept asking her to repeat.
It took two weeks to apply online. I received a response from the recruiter on day 3 and scheduled the interview for the following week. It was a 30-minute phone interview. There was no coding challenge or any other conversation before this. On the
5 rounds of medium to hard level questions and one behavioral. Each round features a different interviewer from different teams and orgs. You get one break among all the interviews.