On the right team, you're surrounded with like-minded people who are sharp engineers and designers, care deeply about the users, and love their job.
Matching with the best team is a haphazard process, and sometimes you can even pass the technical interviews but not be considered by any team.
Pay is also less competitive than some other San Francisco area internships.
A Google recruiter contacted me from LinkedIn, and then I took two phone interviews. It took a long time to arrange all the interviews, and the recruiter replied very slowly. It almost cost me two months to finish the OA and phone interviews.
Just ask a few basic questions about programming that you could answer as a recent CS graduate. They did not ask anything at all about the work I had done for the past 20 years.
Very nice and helpful interviewers. The whole process took about 7 months, but that was with me accepting another company's offer in-between, which probably delayed things. I had: * A recruiter screen * A phone screen (where you write code into a Go
A Google recruiter contacted me from LinkedIn, and then I took two phone interviews. It took a long time to arrange all the interviews, and the recruiter replied very slowly. It almost cost me two months to finish the OA and phone interviews.
Just ask a few basic questions about programming that you could answer as a recent CS graduate. They did not ask anything at all about the work I had done for the past 20 years.
Very nice and helpful interviewers. The whole process took about 7 months, but that was with me accepting another company's offer in-between, which probably delayed things. I had: * A recruiter screen * A phone screen (where you write code into a Go