Get in, boost your CV, get out. Treat it as the 6th year of studies
Get in, boost your CV, get out. Treat it as the 6th year of studies
You get 3x more attention from recruiters. Salary in top 10% of employers. Free food.
Extreme competition among engineers (expect being compared with people doing overtime to get promoted).
Substandard designers and managers are just promoted engineers (so "manage yourself, I want to code"). Custom tech for everything (so most of the stuff you learn there, you will never use again).
Also, you feel like playing a game: rules are highly artificial, people are "mastering strategies" to get ahead, and nobody really cares about the product.
When you get in, learn the rules from someone who works there for 4+ years, and don't trust common sense.
You recruit excellent engineers. Now learn to recruit everything else.
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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
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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).
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HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.
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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
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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).
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Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 22, 2025HR phone call followed by three technical rounds and a managerial round. Got a message from the recruiter via LinkedIn. I responded that I am interested, and then they scheduled a 15-minute interview to learn about my background and interests.
