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- Worst Google Interview Experience I'm sure this is a one-off, I've read about a lot of great Google interviews for PM's - Cancelled multiple times - Multiple No Shows - Wrong resumes sent out I was reached out in October of 2021.... 6 months ago to schedule an interview, the coordinator was out of the country and constantly OOO.
- Google Interview Experience (lol) Had an interview at Google for a PM role. (L4) Interviewer had a sales background, moved into PM internally. Had a bachelors degree in HR with a total yoe ~ 4 (8 months or so into PM and doing interviews already). Okay? Asked me probably one of the hardest Product sense/design question ive seen to
- Horrible google interview experience I had given interview with Google. Interviewer asked me very easy question and i was happy. I coded it on Google docs but i didnot cared about syntax as i thought logic/algo/ability to think is important and not what we write on it. Interviewer kept on asking questions around the same problem an
- vote YOE for Google L6 How many years of experience do you need at minimum to get hired at Google L6 ? Saw a post for Minimum YOE for Meta E6. How comparable are they ? Google L6 folks, at what point did you get to L6 ? #swe #engineering #googlel6
- vote Google Interview experience I just finished my onsite for L3 at Google, I did good on 3 coding interviews and the Googlyness but fucked up on one coding interview. Do you think I lost my chance? TC 130k
- link Killed by google - employee experience 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
- vote Google interview experience 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
- link Google Interview Experience ML - L6 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
- vote My Google Interview Experience… So far YOE: <1 TC: $75k Applied in December, heard back from a recruiter at the end of January, had phone screen middle of February, hear back that I passed towards the end of February, had my “on-site” (1 behavioral, 4 technical, all technicals were LC medium) end of March, waited just under a month to
- vote Google onsite experience 1) Interview 1 - Googliness I was average here. I believe I did not make any bad statements throughout and had positive attitude and courteous. It was not amazing, but it was not too bad either 2) Interview 2- Coding interview I told the brute force solution and I came up with the right approach fo
- Google Interview Experience 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
- Google SDM interview experience Not dissing on the company. I just have a few questions. Wanna understand if this is normal or just caused by my perception. 1. Whats with the system design interview? Why am i asked to design communication systems for people to communicate in the moon. I understand that this is to evaluate somethi
- Google Interview Experience So Far… TC: $75k YOE: <1 Talked with a recruiter, had a phone screen interview, had my virtual onsite (1 Googleyness, 4 technical) waited over 3 weeks, and just heard back from my recruiter that they want to schedule another 2 technical interviews. Thoughts? #Google #SDE #Interview Update: I think th
- Insulting google interview experience 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
- Google L6 min Yoe I have 8 years of experience. Is it stretch to try G L6 SWE? What is min YOE for Google L6? TC: 315k Role: SDE3 in Amazon Min requirements for staff SWE as per google career
- Google Work from anywhere weeks. Experiences? I am thinking of spending 4 weeks using the work from anywhere weeks in India. I will work US hours. I joined the company late last year. Will it be frowned upon to ask soon? I am also in a lot of meetings all day. Any gotchas, tips for success? Tc 500 Yoe 15 #Google
- Google interview experience Interview for L7. Fully involved the entire process, boosting confidence and morale in my capabilities. Sends over prep materials and docs and has a prep call in advance. Onsite goes well. Recruiter gives feedback that all feedback was positive. Recruiter mentions we can move forward with team match
- Google L4 Interview Experience Update: Approved as L4 Phone Screen round: I was asked a stack based question. Was able to give optimal solution and coded it out. Then some follow ups were added to the question. I was able to answer all and code it properly. Coding round 1: Was asked a API class design and had to implement some
- vote Google interview experience 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
- Google Full Remote Experience What’s it like working as a fully remote employee at google? I’m being offered this option to increase options in team matching. Can you go into google buildings to meet up with other employees as long as you don’t take up a desk? What is your experience like in terms of when you’re able to visit g
- My Google Interview Experience 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
- vote Google L3 On-Site experience - Success Edit: just passed HC :) Hey all, just finished my interviews and this was my experience. Let me know your thoughts. Coding 1: was given a pretty straightforward min max problem. Gave sub optimal space complexity for first problem, then corrected it. Then in follow up question, used prior approac
- My Google Interview Experience Happy to be a Googler!!! Got noticed from just a resume consisting of my personal projects since that was the only relevant experience I had. The interview itself was decently challenging and I felt super good afterwards. My confidence went down as the weeks past, especially since it took a while fr
- My Google Interview Experience For context, I have a little over 2 YOE and was referred by a friend to Google. After a couple days, I received an email from the recruiter asking to setup a phone call. During the phone call we talked about my previous work experience and what level I was targeting. I told the recruiter I was rece
- Weird Google Interview Experience Interviewed for Eng Mgr, Google Cloud - Developer Relations. No introductions and the Interviewer started off right away; claimed they are very busy and don't know why they were asked to interview me. Spent first 5 mins venting about their own busy schedule, didn't bother to read the resume and ass
- link Google "Level targeting Interview" experience Previous post : https://www.teamblind.com/post/Google-Level-targeting-Interview-how-to-prepare-LAmtuoJZ In short, I failed to target the L5 bar, and I'm going to taking "one more level target interview for L4". The coding interview went like this: The interviewer gave me a question. (it's difficul
- Google phone interview experience I had my first screen with Google and a real absurb experience. I'm 100% certain that the interviewer was driving while asking me questions. I could hear the blinker go on and the road noise. Not taking anything away from the interviewer, may be he could really multi task: taking notes, ask follow u
- Google interview experience 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
- Google onboarding experience 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,
- Google L4 Experience? I have an L4 on-site coming up. Any recommendations on what questions they’ve been asking. Also, is dp still really popular?
- Google L5 experience? 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
- Google Onsite Experience 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
- #google interview experience In my L5 google interview, I had a round that looked very non-trivial and threw me off quite a bit. I was asked to design a web app with several functional requirements. I was asked to focus only on the given requirements and not to worry about non-functional aspects like scalability, reliability et
- Google UX Design Interview Hi fellow blinders, Have an interview with google next week for a UX Designer - New Grad role. (2nd round) It's suppose to be a 1-on-1 with a designer at google. What should i emphasize and say in my portfolio presentation to increase my chances of success. Appreciate the help😁 Thanks Current
- Google L5 Onsite experience Just had the google virtual onsite today. Was supposed to have 3 coding rounds, 1 behavioral and 1 system design. 2 out of the 3 coding rounds no one showed up. Emailed the recruiter 10 minutes into the first 1, didn't get a response. Emailed the recruiter 20 minutes into the second one realizing I
- vote Google interview experience sucks!! I gave the interviews for google and it went well according to me but the recruiter mentioned they are not moving ahead. I mean if I have solve d all the questions optimally, what could have possibly gone wrong? #google
- (India) Google L5 and Uber SSE experience requirements Title says it all. Do they consider 4+ yoe for the roles? Tax: Tc - 51 Yoe - 4.8 #google #uber
- Google promotion experience 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
- Experience to ramp up at a new team at Google? Feel stress and slow ramp up at a new team at G after transfer from non-tech to swe. I am just in this new team 2-3 weeks. My new team is busy and hard to help. Any advice? Tc: 230k
- Google interview experience Given the interview last week (for Google L5) . Recruiter told me the schedule. I was expecting 1 behavioral round, 1 system design round, 3 coding round. Behavioral round was pretty clear (that was the first interview). Then 3 coding rounds. Last round i was expecting system design, interviewer was
- Google Recruitment Surprisingly Disorganized Experience A sourcer from Google reached out in November last year and connected me with a Recruiter for a role she thought I would be a good fit for. Recruiter didn’t respond for a week and then after two follow ups asked for my availability. Provided my availability to which she said she is no longer availab
- Google interview experience I finished my on-site interview(virtual) last week and thought of sharing the experience with the community. I was interviewing for L4 posn with gcloud team. There were 4 technical rounds and 1 googlyness round of 45 minutes each. All interviews were on google doc. Interview1: 1 medium level graph
- Google l4 experience Hello blind community, Wanted to know what is minimum required experience for l4 role in google india? Current experience 2-2.5 years Tc : 25 lac
- Google -> Meta experience People that have gone from Google to Meta at L5/E5, what was your experience? Are you happy with your decision? Current TC: 400k #google #meta #facebook
- Google interview experience Hi, I was interviewed for E5 manager role for Google. I had two rounds first and based on feedback next 3 rounds occured. 1) System design: feedback that I got was pretty impressive both from interviewer and recruiter. 2) people manager: feedback was 'has potential After this 3 more rounds happe
- vote Google L3 onsite experience Recently had my virtual onsites for Google L3. Here's how they went: Round 1: BFS + Dijkstra's follow-up. Coded both optimally and wrote a lot of code with OOP design. Interviewer said solution looks good. However, couldn't answer the time complexity correctly (was in the ballpark, though) and didn
- Google UX Researcher hiring committee Hi all, I passed my onsite for UX researcher interview. The recruiter said feedback was positive across the board. I met with a team matching hiring manager today and honestly I am not sure what they’re going to say - they’re talking to other candidates too. How long does it process take? I have
- Google onsite experience I had 5 rounds of interview - 4 coding and 1 leadership. 1st round- I was asked a graph question. I coded it with an optimal solution but as the interview was virtual it took some time to convince her that it will work. But, she sounded convinced and also took interest in complexity as well. 2nd r
- Google L3 Offer - 4 years experience Hi, I am having a 4 years of experience at companies like Oracle and Adobe. And have a master degree from IIT . I am being offered a L3 role in Google. TC : Base : 23LPA + 3.45LPA Bonus, Equity : 16LPA Is this a fair offer? My current salary is same as what they are offering. Hr not agreeing to in
- Google onsite interview experience I recently had the Google onsite for L5 and would need some feedback if the packet would reach HC. 1st round - It was the worst round of all. I gave a O(N2) solution but interviewer was adamant and wanted O(N) solution. After a lot of hints and spoon feeding was able to code the O(N) solution. 2nd