Many projects to work on.
Lateral transfer is very easy, and expected.
Growing understanding of the importance of family, and that we're not all frat bros.
The company mission(s) are laudable.
The technology. Homegrown, and better for it.
Transparency!
Increasing amounts of bureaucracy slows engineering down a bit.
The company is now large enough to have crossed the "speak your mind" threshold, where completely free expression turns into a staggering display of what a lack of perspective can do to a person.
Be more clear about what is "a clear priority" and what isn't. It's understandable at a high level, but infrastructure projects don't tie clearly to feature projects. This can be a morale-shifter to hear about "product A will really help our users" and then feel like you're not part of that on infra team B, even though product A could not exist without B.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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