Great perks and benefits, but can be hard to have impact
Great perks and benefits, but can be hard to have impact
The open culture, smart people, great benefits, and all the perks make Google a great place to work.
Generous vacation time, free food and coffee, gyms, and the ability to transfer internally to other teams, including at any office in the world, make for a very comfortable and flexible work environment.
Google only hires great people and only has so many really interesting projects to work on that everyone wants to work on.
People still have to do the tedious work too, so you end up with a lot of people overqualified for what they're doing.
It's a very big company at this point and sometimes can feel like you're just one tiny person, oiling a cog of the machine.
The promotion process is a lot of work and doesn't always recognize great work properly.
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3 tech + 1 googlieness. Mostly friendly interviewers, but most of them seem very uninterested in what you do or say during those interviews. Overall, it was a meh experience. Google is Google, so if you get an interview with them, put in a lot of e
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Google's interview process typically involves: * Resume screening * A recruiter call * Technical phone screens (often coding challenges) * Multiple onsite or virtual interviews assessing technical skills (data structures, algorithms, system
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Very dependent on behaviorals. I think Google is shying away from technicals. Know what and why of your resume. The interview process was lengthy and required a lot of preparation. I'd suggest using some tools to prepare behaviorals as well.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 18, 20253 tech + 1 googlieness. Mostly friendly interviewers, but most of them seem very uninterested in what you do or say during those interviews. Overall, it was a meh experience. Google is Google, so if you get an interview with them, put in a lot of e
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San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 20, 2025Google's interview process typically involves: * Resume screening * A recruiter call * Technical phone screens (often coding challenges) * Multiple onsite or virtual interviews assessing technical skills (data structures, algorithms, system
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San Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 22, 2025Very dependent on behaviorals. I think Google is shying away from technicals. Know what and why of your resume. The interview process was lengthy and required a lot of preparation. I'd suggest using some tools to prepare behaviorals as well.
