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Google Competitors
- link You.com - Google competitor? "The world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for users with useful and actionable content. No ad-targeting." What do you think of this: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/you-com-lands-20m-series-a-to-reimagine-the-search-engine/? Can it threaten Google?
- Google Offer Competitors Just wondering what are the companies Google considers competitors when reviewing offers. Probably FB (been there), Apple (been there)… anyone else? TC: 625K+ YOE: 20+
- Amazon is Building a Competitor to Google Search Just saw in an internal Wiki that there are a few teams being created to get a prototype going with an aim to compete against Google Search and Bing. It says that just as AWS has a dominant share over GCP and Azure in the cloud space, so too must Amazon expand and become the "number one search engi
- Thoughts on Google Analytics competitors? Looking to install trackings for my ecommerce website but I’ve heard Google Analytics is not the best tool. What are your experience with GA and its competitors? I know some people use Heap, Mixpanel, or Kissmetrics.
- Is Netflix considered a Google competitor? Will I get walked out if I reveal I'm going to NFLX? TC 250 non tech
- How technically advanced is google cloud spanner compare to its competitors? Does aws or azure worry about having no direct competitive product against spanner?
- link Apple abuses monopolistic power to handicap competitors like Google Maps, Netflix, Kindle, Spotify https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644045/apple-defends-app-store-policies-antitrust-eu-spotify
- Is Google the new Yahoo? Google stock prices haven’t increased at the same rate as it’s competitors. Is Google going to be the next Yahoo?
- How does the google staff SWE behavioral round look like In l6 SWE behavioral round, does google just ask tech and leadership related questions or also ask product based questions like what google products you like, what can be improved, who are the competitors, etc? TC: 340k YOE: 8.5
- Why even interview at Google? Ridiculous questions. Very long process. Extremely high chance that you wasted your time and get rejected. Low TC compared to many competitors. I’ve never interviewed at Google. Why should I start when there are so many well paying companies with easier interviews?
- Where is "Google Search Killer?" Who is the main competitor for Google Search? Why Google search is still searching monopoly? Does it have not any disadvantages?
- link Yegge's new rant about Google (thoughts?) A longtime Google engineer quits, saying the company is '100% competitor-focused' and 'can no longer innovate' https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84
- Will WORK, DBX, PINS, UBER, LYFT ever go up? With tech giants being competitors, is there a way for these companies to be successful? Microsoft Team, Google Drive, Facebook, Instagram, Google ads, Google Waymo I think that big companies can eat these small frogs anyday.
- Why is Google so bad at new products? Why does almost every new Google product fails, either gets cancelled or lose to competitors? Other than the OG search engine and products from before 2010 like gmail and gmap, the most successful products in google are all from acquisitions(YouTube, Android). Have google lost the ability to make cu
- link Meta melting like feta. Net income dropped by 8% year on year And Netflix has thousands of competitors. FAANG lost its appeal, it’s now GAMA time (google, apple, microsoft, amazon) https://www.economist.com/business/2022/02/04/metamorphosis-facebook-and-big-tech-competition
- Do Google/fb/amazon walk their employees out Just wondering if Google, amazon, Facebook walk their employees out the same day if employee is joining a competitor?
- Do you feel pressure when using competitor devices? Do you feel the pressure from peers/company when you use competitor devices (e.g. iphones at google)? Do you feel it’s politicized where you work? especially at Google and Apple?
- Quit microsoft in situation of coronavirus Is there anyone quit microsoft recently? Looking for some experience sharing in current situation of coronavirus. Is the 2 weeks notice required? Will be let go immediately if leaving for a competitor like Google/Facebook/Amazon? And so on. #Microsoft, Quit, Competitor
- Can someone explain all of the hype around Stripe? Stripe has been getting a lot of hype lately. My understanding is that their core business is a payments API. What makes Stripe’s product uniquely appealing? I acknowledge that they now have many other products that are not payments, but it seems to me like other tech companies can easily launch th
- cool jobs at google Do elite Google teams such as Search, ML, X hire from the standard pipeline of candidates or people get there mostly via internal transfers or direct hires from competitors?
- Competing on-site I have been offered a position with Google and beginning negotiations. No TC offer yet. I have an on-site with a tier 1 competitor coming up. Will G negotiate based on that or do I need to get the offer from competitor first? Also, do I need to disclose anything about the offer from competitor?
- vote Does Dripbox have a bright future? Stock is down almost 50% from its ATH in June 2018 and it seems like they are 4th place after Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud. Google offers more than 7x as much as free storage as they do. Their closest competitor is also literally called Box. Thoughts? (FWIW, Twitter is not the best stock eit
- Garden leave cut short? Can the Microsoft HR cut short the garden leave when you go to a competitor? I have a few stocks vesting in middle of my garden leave and want to know if I'll get them. Anyone who moved from Microsoft to Google, Amazon, Rubrik, Cohesity or any other competitor who faced this issue? YOE: 6 TC: 48 L
- Apple to Google Have an offer from Google. Will this be considered a move to competitor. Will I be walked out immediately, What are the chances of returning in future.
- Amazon offer non competition agreement Does everyone have to sign non-competition agreement with Amazon ? It says I can’t work in certain companies for 18 months with any potential competitors. Does google or Facebook count?
- Google recruiter asked about competing offer (Company and position) So I am working with Google recruiter about PM interviews and since I have a competing offer with a deadline, I mentioned that to him. The recruiter came back to me and asked about who the offer is from, if the offer is from Google's competitor and whats the position they are offering me. Do you t
- Google, why your search results are getting dumb day by day! Comparatively few years back to now, I see google search results are getting dumb and non sensical… exactly opposite to those who are hired in google 😝😝 How’s your your experience? Is there a competitor whom we can depend ?Next decades search engine , who? Ofcourse not google. #tech #Facebook #go
- Oci to other cloud companies Can oci people switch and immediately join competitors like google cloud/azure/aws ? Edit: I have an offer. Just worried about legal stuff before I accept. #engineering #software #cloud
- Getting walked out when giving two week notice. What's the best way of getting walked out when give two week notice? Leaving and not mentioning where I am going or telling the name of a competitor like Amazon or Google?
- Leaving amazon and joining google Hello folks, I have decided to leave amazon India within my first year here. If I tell my manager that I am joining a competitor i.e, Microsoft or Google, will they revoke my access and I will not have to work on my notice period of 1 month? TC: 28LPA SDE 1
- Google L4 PM offer Got an initial offer last week… haven’t compete yet(still getting numbers from the competitors) Base 150k Stock 280k (vest in 4 year, 33/33/22/12) Bonus 15% Sign-On 20k Blind tax: ~4 yoe, current tc: 220k Is this a strong offer? How much room is there left to negotiate? #pm #productmanager #goog
- vote Tell your manager you’re switching to another FAANG? Wondering if anyone has told their manager and team that they are going to a competitor, eg Meta to Google / Apple / Snapchat when giving notice. Is this switch prohibited because of competition clauses? Should I just say I am quitting to rest at home?
- Can I keep stocks of my previous companies? Might be very childish question. There is a clause in my Google India offer letter about Conflict of Interest: If a Googler also works for or "invests in" a company that is Google customer, supplier, partner or "competitor". Does this clause prevent me from holding ADBE while working at Google?
- MSFT to Meta/G For anyone who has left MSFT for either meta or google, what did it look like? I plan on signing onto either of those companies, but I’ve heard rumors that if you go to a competitor (assuming they both are) they revoke access immediately? Anyone done this here recently? Tc: 130
- Joining another company I'm leaving Google to join a competitor. What's the right thing to do in terms of contract, to be on the right side of the law? First resign and then sign? I'm in the UK
- vote OCI prospective customers Zoom might have choosen OCI as other cloud gaints can become potential competitors. such as Google - Hangouts and google Meet Microsoft - Teams Amazon -Chime Do you guys think trend can repeat and OCI can draw big players too? like Netflix? #netflix #google #aws #azure #oci #tech
- link Google Hires ex Microsoft CVP as Head Of Engineering Anil Bhansali (ex Azure CVP) has joined Google as Head of Engineering for Google Cloud. Anil has worked in Office, Search and Windows division. https://yourstory.com/2020/05/google-cloud-appoints-anil-bhansali-vp-engineer What could be the effects and reason of this movement? Can Google Cloud be a
- Amazon's next product is... - a competitor to LinkedIn and Google Jobs - a combination of these products, plus an HR management system for internal and external employee/ recruiting management. Have this on some real good authority. So innovative. Much wow.
- Handling competing offers for Google. I passed hiring committee at Google, they know I have a competing offer and they are asking me for details on the TC from the competitor. Should I share now or wait until they make actual offer?
- Why no good zoom competitors with good UI? On the surface the user interface is horrible for most online meeting apps other than zoom How difficult is it to make a good user interface for online meetings app? #tech On the contrary food delivery has 5 big competitors. Skype, google meet have horrible interface.
- Amazon non compete policy Unfortunately in our state this is legal, does anyone know what this means or had experience in singing this and left Amazon? Who are considered competitors? FB and Google? Like for example if I work at Amazon AWS, does going to Google Ads count as a violation?
- Google lowball + downlevel? I am a L62 at MSFT with decent greenfield projects experience, consistently top performer of my team. The only reason I’m trying to jump ship is my TC cliff. Interviewed for Google L4 last week. Recruiter called today, said not all feedbacks have arrived yet. Feedback so far is mixed. But L4 is loo
- Winter is here Benchmark suing Travis, Google sexism meeting, snap missing estimates and dropping even more, Kim and Donald threatening nuclear war, Facebook basically admitting it's a monopoly that spies on its competitors to consolidate power, Tech broadly down on the markets today Did I miss anything?
- Interview etiquette AWS, GCP, Oracle I’m interviewing with AWS, GCP, and Oracle Cloud. Is it good or bad behavior to inform each company that you are interviewing specifically with their competitors? Does it help or hurt chances of offer?
- Non compete with amazon Is the non compete clause with amazon restricted to the industry you are working in within amazon? Otherwise Microsoft, google, Netflix, Walmart, FedEx etc can be considered as competitors? Typically non compete clause is for 18 months
- vote Will Google acquire VMWare? VMWare is doubling down on kubernetes, and Google is the leader but is struggling to gain cloud marketshare. As adoption of k8s increases, will Google consolidate its cloud with VMWare to be a strong competitor to the AWS/Azure dominance? Think ATT, Verizon, with Tmobile and Sprint attempting to mer
- Getting job in Google/Facebook without interview I was wondering are there cases when someone gets a engineering job in big company as google/FB/apple without those long interviews (solving algorithm problems onsite for 5-6 hours) and going thru hiring committees. Something like getting job thru referrals or coming from also big (or competitor com
- Google | Competing offers while on the job Let’s say you are currently working at Google, and get an offer from competitor (e.g: Facebook). Questions - 1] Is it norm / best practice to show the competing offer to Google to try and get you to a better offer?. 2] Does google look at your competing offer and then match TC and potentially lev
- Houzz and thumbtack Got hunter messages from both companies. Not familiar with businesses like this. Wondering whether such home business is promising or not. Since there’s already quite a few competitors like home advisor yelp, even google launch “ask quotes “, so not sure what it would like. Thanks
- Recruiter Salary at AWS v FB v Google (London) Currently at Google and feel like I'm definitely being underpaid v our direct competitors. I am due to have a comp conversation and want to be strong with my negotiation. Would anyone feel comfortable sharing salary ranges, stock, bonus information with me. Thank you #HR #PeopleOps #Google #A