Good Engineering, Toxic Politics
Good Engineering, Toxic Politics
Still a great place to do good engineering work. Still a great business in general.
Politics, politics, politics. Like 30% of the engineering leadership is now comprised of people with no technical merit to stand on. Most places are still worse than this, but Google used to be a lot better.
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Applied online. They skipped the phone interview. The interview on campus was moderately difficult and focused on system design problems. Received an offer in a week. They beat a competing offer from another popular large company.
Staff Software Engineer
The interview process was conducted in a timely manner. They respected my time, and even though I didn't get the job, I still felt like they gave me a fair chance and supported me during the process.
Staff Software Engineer
I was contacted through LinkedIn by a Google recruiter for their Glasses Team in Google X. I signed an NDA. I had a short, 30-minute phone screen with an engineer. It was pretty generic, with a few basic questions on RF. Unfortunately, he couldn't a
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Mountain View, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2016Applied online. They skipped the phone interview. The interview on campus was moderately difficult and focused on system design problems. Received an offer in a week. They beat a competing offer from another popular large company.
Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesJanuary 1, 2021The interview process was conducted in a timely manner. They respected my time, and even though I didn't get the job, I still felt like they gave me a fair chance and supported me during the process.
Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, California, United StatesOctober 1, 2012I was contacted through LinkedIn by a Google recruiter for their Glasses Team in Google X. I signed an NDA. I had a short, 30-minute phone screen with an engineer. It was pretty generic, with a few basic questions on RF. Unfortunately, he couldn't a
