Unrecognizable from just a decade ago
Unrecognizable from just a decade ago
- Impressive senior technical talent
- Impressive (if aging) tech stack
- Solving problems at immense scale
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The tech stack is both a blessing and a curse. It is aging and insanely complex, and it shows.
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Some things are empowering, others are crippling.
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The culture is largely destroyed and it has become a massive bureaucracy with tiny pockets of the tech meritocracy it once was.
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They are completely lost from a product management perspective.
Hold Product Management to higher standards than Engineering.
Fix the broken promotion process.
Stop encouraging product churn as a means of promotion (e.g., "launched new service") and encourage product/technical excellence through evolution.
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Very tough. Five interviews, a mix of coding questions, class design, system design, out-of-the-box thinking with RNGs, and a leadership interview at the very end. The interviewers were nice and would give hints here and there, but the intensity of
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I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
SWE Intern
It was great! I had technical interviews with them. They were back to back, focusing on algorithmic questions. I interviewed with a person from California and then with a person from New York.
Technical Lead Manager (TLM)
Kirkland, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2016Very tough. Five interviews, a mix of coding questions, class design, system design, out-of-the-box thinking with RNGs, and a leadership interview at the very end. The interviewers were nice and would give hints here and there, but the intensity of
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesNovember 24, 2025I applied for a Google SWE position and went through a recruiter call first. The recruiter was very friendly and clear about the process. My phone screen had two coding questions: * One on arrays (two sum variant) * Another on dynamic programming (u
SWE Intern
New York, New York, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was great! I had technical interviews with them. They were back to back, focusing on algorithmic questions. I interviewed with a person from California and then with a person from New York.
