Google is a great place for engineers
Google is a great place for engineers
Very smart people and a very high density of smart people. So you don't have to find a smart person out of ten in order to have your question answered.
Some of the smart people stay with their project forever. They have a 'lock' on the project, they make themselves indispensable so they don't have to push or invent.
People can move from one project to another after 2 years. This is a very good policy. It makes it easy for people to move without keeping the project in constant ramp-up mode.
Consider another policy: make it mandatory for engineers to move after X years (5-7). This would solve the above problem.
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United StatesMarch 3, 2022I went through four rounds of LeetCode interviews. I was quite surprised they never asked questions about working with people. It was totally tech-focused. I will say the HR recruiter was far more human than my experience interviewing with Microsoft
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesMarch 27, 2014Initial contact with the recruiter was via email. I had been contacted in the past and finally replied to a follow-up. I was able to skip the phone screen due to my experience level and internal Google references. I had five on-site, hour-long inte
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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
