Academic and without direction
Academic and without direction
Amazing benefits. Streamlined process. No politics.
No sense of overall direction. No sense of ownership of achievement. Makes you feel like a tiny cog in a giant machine. Thousands of genius engineers with nothing better to do than pick on each other.
Do some actual management of products and projects!
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SRE
A straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. It involved several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire or reject me, they gave me an additional technical interview.
Software Engineer
I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
Software Engineer
First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
SRE
Munich, Bavaria, GermanyNovember 25, 2025A straightforward process, exactly what the recruiter described. It involved several technical interviews and some personal interviews. When it wasn't clear if they could hire or reject me, they gave me an additional technical interview.
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesNovember 24, 2025I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesNovember 24, 2025First, an online assessment, then the HR call, then several rounds of technical interview (you need to solve data structure/algorithm problems), and finally a manager interview (mostly behavioral questions).
