Great Perks, Politics Impede Engineering
Great Perks, Politics Impede Engineering
Everything you've ever heard about working at Google is true. Benefits are awesome, coworkers are awesome, and your work affects millions of people.
Politics are starting to get in the way of engineering. Since launches are incentivized so heavily in the promo process, negative dogfood feedback is often ignored on the way to launch, with few or no consequences.
Hire more designers and PMs. Consumer-facing projects are heavily bottlenecked on non-SWE resources.
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Software Engineer
Two 45-minute phone-screen interviews. The interviewers were very nice. I kept thinking aloud, and they kept giving me hints. It was quick and painless. I would advise preparing coding questions for Google.
Software Engineer
Someone called and asked random stuff about my resume. They found one Java program and grilled me about Java. Then they asked things about Linux when I said I have used it. Another interviewer asked me to work on hash maps. The first part of the inte
Data Engineer
It's tough. Better study some network engineering stuff as well. Also, make sure you are confident. There are instances where they confuse you, like I was. Have a good idea of what your problem is. Tell them what you understood.
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesFebruary 1, 2017Two 45-minute phone-screen interviews. The interviewers were very nice. I kept thinking aloud, and they kept giving me hints. It was quick and painless. I would advise preparing coding questions for Google.
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesDecember 1, 2009Someone called and asked random stuff about my resume. They found one Java program and grilled me about Java. Then they asked things about Linux when I said I have used it. Another interviewer asked me to work on hash maps. The first part of the inte
Data Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesFebruary 1, 2023It's tough. Better study some network engineering stuff as well. Also, make sure you are confident. There are instances where they confuse you, like I was. Have a good idea of what your problem is. Tell them what you understood.
