A lot of opportunities/projects. Smart people. Great engineering culture. Good compensation at higher levels of the Eng ladder.
Way too many meetings.
Politics.
Difficult to work if you are in a remote office: choice of projects is limited, and many decisions are still made in Mountain View.
Bring 20% projects back.
Focus less on search.
Less useless meetings.
More power (in decision making, project choice etc.) to remote offices.
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
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
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
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
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
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