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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All I can say is: WOW. Absolutely infuriating experience. Long story short: I interviewed with Google nine months ago today. The interview went well, and I liked the people there. I was told I would be getting an offer. For nine months, on average,
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San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2023The interview included a standard LeetCode Medium problem and a culture fit component. There seemed to be a lot of emphasis on exploring multiple solutions and expanding upon the question, more so than on the culture fit small talk part of the interv
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 31, 2023The interview process was great. Despite doing badly on one of the two first-round interviews, they let me take a third one to sort out the mixed reviews. They also kept me in the loop about the process and the feedback I was receiving.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2014All I can say is: WOW. Absolutely infuriating experience. Long story short: I interviewed with Google nine months ago today. The interview went well, and I liked the people there. I was told I would be getting an offer. For nine months, on average,
