Google SETI
I’m applying for SETI roles since I’m a devops/automation guy at current company and would like to know if anyone had interviewed for SETI roles at google recently Are they different from SWE interviews? Can I expect difficulty level of SETI same as SWE? Any comments/suggestions would be of great help Thanks in advance!!! SETI - software engineer tools and infrastructure SWE - Software engineer
You should ask to do SRE if you want SWE... SRE is closer to devops (or the same depends on the company).
But Google SETI are software engineers, they just build internal applications versus consumer facing. SRE is devops
SRE builds tools too.
I'm a SETI hiring manager and the bar is exactly the same as SWEs. The only difference is that you might have an interview more focused on testing (how to factor a piece of code to make it more testable, for example) but you still have regular SWE leetcode and design interviews, depending on the level you're applying for. A consequence of having the same bar is that you can transition to a SWE role later without having to interview again.
Can you demystify what SETI doesand why outsiders seem to have negative sentiment on SETIs? Some say glorified QA, others say building tools for testing infrastructure and build system.
Not the OP but SETI stands for software engineer, tools and infrastructure. They build apps where the customers are other Googlers. They are not SRE (which in itself has SWE-SRE and SA-SRE (iirc)) who's work is 50% ops / prod on-call and 50% development / scaling etc. Google has yet another told that is testing focused called SDE I believe.
How many times we gonna ask this question? Do you use the search feature on this app?
Yea, it felt just as hard but there was no design interview. The interviewers were a mix of SETIs and SWEs. Probably med/hard leetcode questions. One of the questions from a SETI totally railed me and to this day still have no idea what a good answer would be.
For which level did you interview? I had 2 design interviews when applying for L5 SETI