Great place, but becoming a corporate
Great place, but becoming a corporate
- Great benefits
- The best people I have ever worked with.
- Get to work on things that literally change the world.
Marching towards big corporate culture. Very centralized, hard to show impact from a remote office. Management is becoming deeper and deeper.
Resist the urge to grow at all costs.
Remember what made Google great – it was amazingly good at avoiding opportunity cost.
Nowadays, the chance of successfully working on something groundbreaking that came from the bottom is close to zero.
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I went through 5 rounds of on-site interviews. The first 3 rounds went well, but the 4th round, a coding challenge regarding BST, was difficult. I implemented my initial solution and then wanted to tweak it to add another logic that was requested ori
Staff Software Engineer
Very long process. Prep is time-consuming: LeetCoding and Grokking the System Design Interview. Past experience is not valued much beyond the leadership part of the interview. Most interviewers were nice. I liked the team-matching part. Low offe
Staff Software Engineer
An engaged recruiter set up what became five interviews: * Two coding and algorithms * Two systems design * One "Googleyness" and Leadership The first coding interview went well. For the next interview (systems design), the interviewer ghost
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesMarch 24, 2022I went through 5 rounds of on-site interviews. The first 3 rounds went well, but the 4th round, a coding challenge regarding BST, was difficult. I implemented my initial solution and then wanted to tweak it to add another logic that was requested ori
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesDecember 1, 2022Very long process. Prep is time-consuming: LeetCoding and Grokking the System Design Interview. Past experience is not valued much beyond the leadership part of the interview. Most interviewers were nice. I liked the team-matching part. Low offe
Staff Software Engineer
United StatesAugust 1, 2022An engaged recruiter set up what became five interviews: * Two coding and algorithms * Two systems design * One "Googleyness" and Leadership The first coding interview went well. For the next interview (systems design), the interviewer ghost
