I’ve been approached by Google recruiters for General SWE and SWE iOS roles. There’s a difference in interviews where SWE iOS role asks domain specific knowledge. I’ve been doing iOS development for the past two years and found it quite interesting. But I don’t think it’s good for my career to be pigeonholed by iOS development. Which interview should I take? SWE iOS seems to require less Leetcoding. I have 8-12 months to prepare. YOE 2, TC 205K.
Damn iOS at google is my dream job. What team would it be for?
The recruiter listed a few teams in Google Cloud, which are not very impressive. I didn’t hear names of well-known apps like mail, drive, doc, etc. If that’s your dream job then go for it! Google makes pretty decent iOS apps.
How did you find the position for this? I’ll be a new grad in spring and so I think I can only apply for the general new grad SWE role
Heads up they basically only have ObjC teams there so good luck if you’re trying to do Swift
How is the interview process different from a normal SW eng role?
Go with iOS specialized, you can switch domain within the company after you get a promo to L4, which will happen to you in about 2 years.
L3 not allowed to switch domain? Is there any chance joining as L4? I’m a L5(sde2) now but I understand google doesn’t care.
With 2 YOE it’s unlikely google would offer u L4.