Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer
Build interesting software infrastructure in a company that values engineering.
Work with really bright co-workers and build atop an awesome codebase.
Projects in Google can become very big, very fast, as they should. But running very small, experimental projects has become more difficult, as the risk/reward equation has shifted more towards the huge expense of uncertainty, given Google's large revenues.
Management already understands very well how the increasing size has created a much more cautious culture than the early Google. There are experiments like Google-X and others, but there isn't a decentralized Google-X, which is why I am now doing my own X-Google startup.
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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
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
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
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
Staff Software Engineer
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 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
