Google reached out a couple of times this year, but most interactions are vague. It’s hard to get excited about switching and not looking to work on G Suite / Ads. At least with Amazon the leadership principles and hiring is straightforward. Any tips for navigating and understanding the more interesting teams?
Every conversation I’ve had with them left me with the impression that they’ll more or less come to you (the whole circulation of your resume/portfolio with HMs). They don’t have LPs or an apparently formalized method for evaluating people—they look for Googly-ness, whatever that is. Maybe if you have to ask, you aren’t. I have no idea. If you’re in Seattle, they’ll want you on Google Cloud. Their hiring push for that is enormous from what they told me. I’ve asked about leadership and it seems very committee-driven, outside of Material I don’t get the sense that there’s a few designated directors, just a number of managers and people with “Staff” in their titles. It’s also supposed to be a very slow environment. But people also seem to enjoy it.
Hiring process is straight forward: recruiter match, team match, hiring committee, start
Google Cloud is taking off like a rocket.
So they reached out but didn't indicate specific roles/teams? Then I'd look at leadership roles on Google careers...
Where? Depends on the Geo
Seattle & SF
Seattle is cloud, and maps api. LA is YouTube and media. Overseas is finance, travel, etc SF is like every thing else