Great Pay, Company Politics
Great Pay, Company Politics
Google is very widespread and offers interesting problems in many areas.
Google has great pay and excellent benefits.
As a big company, Google has lots of politics. It has become hierarchical and there is lots of overhead, like meetings. The 20% time is touted, but not that real in practice.
Some managers have clear favorites and inner circles. If you are not part of that, you have no chance of getting anywhere.
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I applied through a career site in February. Three weeks later, I received an email with a coding test. There were two problems for 90 minutes. After a month, I got an email for a phone interview. There were three phone interviews overall. The firs
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Phone interview coding question (roughly LC medium). Moved on to 3 onsite coding interviews (LC mediums + LC hard), system design, and behavioral questions. Prepared using LeetCode and Educative. Did well on 3/5 questions but not well enough for an
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I was spotted by a recruiter after attending a Google event on campus at Michigan State. I first did two HackerRank-type questions (but their proprietary version of it). I then had two phone/Google Drive interviews with two separate Google engineer
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Mountain View, California, United StatesMay 1, 2019I applied through a career site in February. Three weeks later, I received an email with a coding test. There were two problems for 90 minutes. After a month, I got an email for a phone interview. There were three phone interviews overall. The firs
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Mountain View, California, United StatesApril 1, 2019Phone interview coding question (roughly LC medium). Moved on to 3 onsite coding interviews (LC mediums + LC hard), system design, and behavioral questions. Prepared using LeetCode and Educative. Did well on 3/5 questions but not well enough for an
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Mountain View, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2019I was spotted by a recruiter after attending a Google event on campus at Michigan State. I first did two HackerRank-type questions (but their proprietary version of it). I then had two phone/Google Drive interviews with two separate Google engineer
