Good compensation Grandfathered into WFH Actually big data At least 10 words
Tech stack is outdated and overly complex Huge bureaucracy, work more in Google docs than writing code
Google keeps getting voted as the best company to work in Blind but I wonder how they take care of employees when it decides to kill a project (which is quite often). I hear they loathe long term investment in emerging tech (like VR) and end up killing them if it does not produce revenue in a couple...Read more
Last week interviewed at Google, and unfortunately, the experience left much to be desired. The interview was scheduled for 10 am PST, but no one showed up for the first 15 minutes. After informing the recruiter, I resumed my work. An hour later, I received a call from the interviewer, who claimed I...Read more
How many number of experience is required for L5 engineer at Google? I know there is no formula and it varies a lot. My question is about average no of good experience. About me: I am working on making APIs for AI related functions. I deal with large scale cloud computing and Machine learning. I h...Read more
I recently interviewed with Google India. I had 5 interviews. All were taken by non indians. 2 of the interviewers were really rude. They were rolling their eyes when I asked some questions. In general, I have seen that interviewers start treating you really bad if you are not giving the answer that...Read more
I did well in my Google interview, and the recruiter said it went quite positively. She didn't mention the role but hinted it would match my 2.9 years of experience. I'm wondering what to do next, especially if I get stuck in team matching. Any advice or experiences to share? Anyone stuck in the tea...Read more
Long time lurker here. Blind has been super helpful in helping calm my nerves as I read of others' experiences and timelines (while making up worst-case scenarios for myself), so decided to share my experience and timeline of Google in case it might help calm the nerves of others who might stumble a...Read more
I just finished an interview process with Google. Went up to the last rounds, Hiring manager told I did well and was within the top 3 candidates, however they opted for another candidate with more regional experience. I have been interviewed before by tech companies (including Meta) and I was very ...Read more
I interviewed at google 3 months ago….at the time my recruiter suggested that feedback for system design is very positive but coding is mixed….and I have been in team match since. I asked my recruiter to try for engprod as well but apparently there hasn’t been much interest in the profile even for e...Read more
Update 2 -------------- My recruiter went on leave and a new recruiter took up my case. I received a call from the recruiter and unfortunately I didn't make it to HC or Team Matching. Disappointed. Surprisingly, not as devastated as I was about 5 years back when I first got rejected after the 2nd ro...Read more
Interviewed at Google last week. (Recruiter didn’t mention L3/L4) Staus: Rejected. Recruiter mentioned that I have done well in 3 rounds and ‘Ok’ish in 2 rounds. Current YOE: 2 Experience: Round 1: Regarding HashMap (Easy) Round 2: Graphs Related (Medium) Round 3: Graphs Related (Medium) Round 4: ...Read more
My interaction with Google's HR has been a poor experience: 1. Two years ago, I was excited to receive an informal L6 offer, but unfortunately, I did not receive any follow-up communication from HR. 2. Last month, Google's HR team reached out to me with a job description. We had a promising screen...Read more
I just finished my interview loop with google for a ML engineer position(remote) at google. I have benefited a lot from reading other peoples experiences and I have decided to document my own experience. Additionally, the blind community has several posts for software engineer, but is lacking posts ...Read more
Recently given google interview for L5 position in india. Recruiter scheduled 3 coding rounds. I solved 2 problems in first round related to graph. In second round I could not come up with equation , but after getting hints I could solve 1 coding problem only. In third round I solved 2 coding pro...Read more
Folks that onboarded remotely at Google, how has been your experience? Any tips you can share to make the experience better? Starting next month, and HR said they will ship laptop to home. But beyond that, I am not sure much is defined... or I haven't heard it yet. If you can share your experience, ...Read more
Can folks worked or working at google share their promotion experience? Like how many years it takes from one level to other.. and if possible what kind of raises/refreshes at each level.. This could help wannabe googlers .. thanks in advance
Hey blind, I just attended big G onsite 1) Aced it: A girl asked me to reverse a string. I said that strings in python are immutable, so it's O(1). The rest of the interview we were sitting in silence. Meaning she ran out of questions, so definitely a strong hire. 2) Did ok. Solved it in O(n^2) w...Read more
Short version: bad experience at Google recruiting/interview, no offer. Longer version: the process of speaking with recruiters and going in for the interview was unnecessarily long and exhausting. It about 3 months, speaking to 5 recruiters (sourcer, recruiter, scheduler) to get something lined up...Read more
Had my onsite L5 loop yesterday. I don't think the questions were super hard. Round 1 system design: Started off great. But I feel I was a little vague with respect to a lot of the details towards the end, like, being vague about requiring more than one worker to get a job done, unsure of rtt in la...Read more
Hi all, It's the season again and finished my onsite interviews the other day. Will give my experience and ask what you all think is the likely result. I am targeting L4. Interview 1 (estimated: strong hire) LC med-hard. Finished relatively quickly including the follow-up and had 15 mins for ques...Read more
I recently had an onsite interview experience at Google. The last interviewer was not paying attention to me at all. At times when I was speaking the answer he would just close his eyes. Also he was not taking any notes at all (All others were typing on computer). When the recruiter called me, he t...Read more