Great Pay, Less Politics
Great Pay, Less Politics
Great pay, great flexibility. Nobody pampers engineers like Google. Focus is on small teams, self-starting and self-motivating engineers. There's much less power politics than I've found elsewhere.
No offices.
Excessive focus on engineering means that non-engineering disciplines (finance, HR, legal, marketing) are undervalued.
A lot more boring ads work than you would think.
What you valued as a 25-year-old Systems grad student is not necessarily what you should value now.
In particular, there is more to CS than Systems, and there is more to a company than CS.
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SWE Intern
Two interviews back to back with an hour break. Difficulty was one hard, one medium. The interviewers were nice, but a little bit pushy, so you don't get a lot of time to think.
Software Engineer
It was okay. The interviewer was kind but did not seem interested at all. The questions were not that hard, but the entire interview process was very strung out, and communication amongst the recruiter was not good.
Software Engineer Intern
Pretty easy. It was two graph type problems, with DP necessary to solve. You don't need to run the code, which is a plus. They have their own pool of questions, so they usually aren't on LeetCode.
SWE Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2025Two interviews back to back with an hour break. Difficulty was one hard, one medium. The interviewers were nice, but a little bit pushy, so you don't get a lot of time to think.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesOctober 28, 2025It was okay. The interviewer was kind but did not seem interested at all. The questions were not that hard, but the entire interview process was very strung out, and communication amongst the recruiter was not good.
Software Engineer Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesSeptember 29, 2025Pretty easy. It was two graph type problems, with DP necessary to solve. You don't need to run the code, which is a plus. They have their own pool of questions, so they usually aren't on LeetCode.
