The pay is top of market and few can match it.
Perks are unbelievable: dozens of different cuisines for lunch, 21 days of PTO, and fantastic medical coverage.
Really smart coworkers, some of the best in the world.
High-profile projects can be extremely political and can really be dragged down by too many cooks in the kitchen.
In a post-Cambridge Analytica world, there are huge slowdowns in releasing new features/products. People aren't driven by making the experience better for users as much as they are by not screwing up again.
People at the company aren't focused on users as much as they are on moving metrics.
Go back to basics and focus on users.
Take bigger bets and move away from the "move last and take things" mentality.
Applied through employee referral. Received a phone screen about two weeks later. After not being contacted for approximately 4.5 weeks, I was asked to come onsite to the Menlo Park campus. The onsite consisted of one 45-minute interview with a si
A recruiter contacted me in the past, and I decided to go ahead with the process now. I had my first technical screening interview, which I opted to do at the Menlo Park office instead of over the phone. It was purely data structures and algorithms.
Process: This is for undergraduate full-time software candidates in the USA. I submitted my resume at a college career fair and received an email about on-campus interviews. At this stage, there were three possible outcomes: an onsite invitation, a
Applied through employee referral. Received a phone screen about two weeks later. After not being contacted for approximately 4.5 weeks, I was asked to come onsite to the Menlo Park campus. The onsite consisted of one 45-minute interview with a si
A recruiter contacted me in the past, and I decided to go ahead with the process now. I had my first technical screening interview, which I opted to do at the Menlo Park office instead of over the phone. It was purely data structures and algorithms.
Process: This is for undergraduate full-time software candidates in the USA. I submitted my resume at a college career fair and received an email about on-campus interviews. At this stage, there were three possible outcomes: an onsite invitation, a