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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Seattle, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2022The overall interview process is good. The interviewers are easy to talk with and will give you hints if you are blocked. The questions are general LeetCode questions. You need to verify the code and give good test cases to fully pass the interview.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2021Three interviews were conducted. Waited for approximately two months until I received a final offer. One interview was with an engineer for a technical assessment. I was asked three questions. Two interviews were with managers. They mainly asked a
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2020My experience was very enjoyable! I had two interview questions, which were the equivalent of LeetCode easy questions. One was a string manipulation question. Overall, as long as you practice your LeetCodes consistently, you should be prepared for
