Bright Minds, Bureaucratic Walls
Bright Minds, Bureaucratic Walls
Very bright people to talk to, flexible work hours, friendly teams, reimbursement for everything, good quality code, and lots of projects to match you with. Awesome food.
This is a big company, and access to information is sometimes restricted. Also, academia is more interesting to me than projects at Google. Even if you do research, it is not the same kind of research as at university – it always is very close to practical uses.
Quite often you tell your interns how awesome Google is and how proud they should be to be your employee. I think sometimes it should be the opposite: you should appreciate that someone chose Google over more interesting but financially inferior academic work.
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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.
