More toxic than Amazon just less transparent about it
More toxic than Amazon just less transparent about it
Free food, nice colleagues, and a stock plan.
There was AI lunacy while having no quota. Tokenmaxxing was encouraged with little impact to show for it, and impact was proven through the number of documents written. There was a toxic culture while keeping up the appearance of a happy family. It was impossible to get an L4 to L5 promotion in certain orgs.
Stop hiring managers from the outside without giving them proper training onto Google culture, allowing them to bring toxic culture from elsewhere.
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Good overall. Very in-depth. I felt the questions and coding interview were really in-depth and allowed me to demonstrate a range of skills. The interviewers were really friendly and easy to talk to. It was a really positive process overall.
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My assigned recruiter stated that Google does not hire anyone who is not specifically "front end" or "back end." They indicated that algorithm design, C/C++, machine learning, and cryptography are not skill sets Google seeks to hire. This was after
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After setting the schedule through emails, the phone screen with the recruiter was conducted. After some weeks of preparation, I had my first-round algorithm interview with a Software Engineer from Google who works in Taiwan.
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London, United KingdomJanuary 1, 2023Good overall. Very in-depth. I felt the questions and coding interview were really in-depth and allowed me to demonstrate a range of skills. The interviewers were really friendly and easy to talk to. It was a really positive process overall.
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United StatesFebruary 1, 2017My assigned recruiter stated that Google does not hire anyone who is not specifically "front end" or "back end." They indicated that algorithm design, C/C++, machine learning, and cryptography are not skill sets Google seeks to hire. This was after
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TaipeiSeptember 1, 2023After setting the schedule through emails, the phone screen with the recruiter was conducted. After some weeks of preparation, I had my first-round algorithm interview with a Software Engineer from Google who works in Taiwan.
