Great people, learned a lot
Great people, learned a lot
Lots of really smart people; I learned way more here than anywhere else I've worked.
Great salaries and benefits: free food, gym, laundry, etc. If I wasn't married, I might have just bought a van and lived in the parking lot.
Work/life balance was pretty solid. The culture was fantastic.
Everything is about your promotions and job number. Promotion is notoriously fickle; the metrics-driven approach tends to create behavior that isn't ideal.
Work is not terribly interesting unless you're in the 99.9 percentile type.
Outside of the major offices, you're not going to advance very much. This is more of a job for when you want to kick back and relax rather than be ambitious.
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1. Online assignment: A simple coding question. 2. Phone interview: 2-3 questions. 3. Onsite interview: Took place in YouTube, San Bruno, CA. It lasted about 5 hours, followed by an information session.
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The initial communication is with the recruiter. This is followed by a technical phone screen and then a multi-hour on-site interview. The whole process takes weeks or months, and it is very slow-moving. One interviewer did not know how to intervie
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OA + 4 interviews (3 technical + 1 behavioral). Questions were around LC medium level. Behavioral was mostly focused on experience and situations working with colleagues. Moved on to team match afterward. Didn't have any match calls but was just pl
Software Engineer
San Bruno, California, United StatesDecember 1, 20161. Online assignment: A simple coding question. 2. Phone interview: 2-3 questions. 3. Onsite interview: Took place in YouTube, San Bruno, CA. It lasted about 5 hours, followed by an information session.
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San Bruno, California, United StatesMay 16, 2017The initial communication is with the recruiter. This is followed by a technical phone screen and then a multi-hour on-site interview. The whole process takes weeks or months, and it is very slow-moving. One interviewer did not know how to intervie
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San Bruno, California, United StatesMay 1, 2025OA + 4 interviews (3 technical + 1 behavioral). Questions were around LC medium level. Behavioral was mostly focused on experience and situations working with colleagues. Moved on to team match afterward. Didn't have any match calls but was just pl
