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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Graduate Engineer
The process should have a few rounds; I only had one. They reached out to me via email and asked me to do a home exam that included a few code questions plus a few character questions. It wasn't hard. Unfortunately, I was rejected with no reason gi
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
Google Engineering Practicum
New York, New York, United StatesDecember 1, 2016It's very easy to get an interview when you have a great resume. There are multiple stages and thousands of applicants. Make sure you make your mark and put in all of your efforts!
Graduate Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesFebruary 4, 2025The process should have a few rounds; I only had one. They reached out to me via email and asked me to do a home exam that included a few code questions plus a few character questions. It wasn't hard. Unfortunately, I was rejected with no reason gi
