Excellent meals. Generally a great work environment. Superb internal tools. Folks are nice. Very low pressure environment.
Lots of talent there, but not always clear what to work on. Warehouses full of shelf-ware. Many half-baked projects start and are vaporized when they lead nowhere. This is a good strategy for Google; as a monopoly, they can start a thousand projects. If a couple turn out well, they write the others off, as their giant cash machine covers all costs.
One beef: it's harder being older there. Explicit ageism was very rare, but there was a strong strain of "let's celebrate youth" – the famous "take your parents to work day." Once in a while, I was on the receiving end of some condescending nonsense as an "unwoke" ancient. It's precious snowflake central – nice kids – but they've no clue how the rest of the working world works.
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
I sent my resume to a few Google employees and heard back from the recruiter the next day. The phone screen was very straightforward, covering basics in computer security, some programming, etc. I then had a day-long interview in Kirkland, consisting
Applied online and through the company website. A recruiter/sourcer reached out via email. The recruiter/sourcer was courteous and professional. However, the hiring manager/team had already filled the position with another candidate who was in the
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
I sent my resume to a few Google employees and heard back from the recruiter the next day. The phone screen was very straightforward, covering basics in computer security, some programming, etc. I then had a day-long interview in Kirkland, consisting
Applied online and through the company website. A recruiter/sourcer reached out via email. The recruiter/sourcer was courteous and professional. However, the hiring manager/team had already filled the position with another candidate who was in the