Your experience may vary
Your experience may vary
Working at Google is great, simply because of the size of the company and the freedom to move about. You know that when you work on something at Google, it has the potential to impact billions of people, and that's powerful.
Because of Google's size, it is not culture-consistent, and you have very different experiences working on different teams. For example, my experience as an intern was much worse than that of some of my classmates.
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Software Engineer
I applied online and received an email less than a week later inviting me to talk with one of Google's in-house recruiters. This initial phone call is mainly for the recruiter to get to know you a little better and to schedule the technical phone scr
Hardware Engineer
One screening, followed by four onsite interviews. There was also one interview that was behavioral-based. The technical interview was of average difficulty. It is important to know your basic EE concepts. This job was for the camera team for the G
SWE Intern
Very long and time-consuming, but they updated you throughout the entire process, which was nice. However, three months is just too long; there needs to be a better option.
Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2018I applied online and received an email less than a week later inviting me to talk with one of Google's in-house recruiters. This initial phone call is mainly for the recruiter to get to know you a little better and to schedule the technical phone scr
Hardware Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2022One screening, followed by four onsite interviews. There was also one interview that was behavioral-based. The technical interview was of average difficulty. It is important to know your basic EE concepts. This job was for the camera team for the G
SWE Intern
Sunnyvale, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025Very long and time-consuming, but they updated you throughout the entire process, which was nice. However, three months is just too long; there needs to be a better option.
