Great company to get you spoiled on perks, but the culture is getting very corporate
Great company to get you spoiled on perks, but the culture is getting very corporate
High salary. Many perks. Great breakfast and lunch. Working with some very smart people. Learning all the Google technology. Free phone or tablet once a year. If you worked on a cool product and post on social media, you would probably have many followers. Company encourages employees to move around within the company. Free shuttle service to work.
Working with some very smart people can also turn into a bad thing, because some smart people are real assholes sometimes.
The company is getting big and corporate.
The 20% project is available only when 100% is done.
Performance reviews are still a mystery to me. I had gotten bad ratings for working my butt off and good ratings for not doing much.
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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.
