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- Google Nest Team How is the culture and wlb? Is it a good team to join?
- Google Teams (Daydream/Stadia/Nest) Currently team matching. Google folks, which of these are best/which should be avoided?
- Software Engineer at Google Nest Devices & Services team Asking for a friend. A friend is doing a team match right now with the aforementioned team. This team is involved with writing b2b and b2c services for the nest devices. My friend would like to know about the team culture and growth opportunities in the team. If someone here has known the team, it
- Nest team: how did Google drop the ball so badly with Nest? So much potential and they destroyed it. 5 year support commitment… I’ve lost all trust in Google products. Thought they would actually maintain a security system but no, cancelled like all their other devices. Will never buy another Google device. #tech #google #security #nest
- Google PM Interview, What to expect? Have an interview scheduled with the Hiring Manager in the Nest team. Any prep tips? #google #nest #productmanager
- Google home/assistant teams I am in Alexa and looking to move to Google. I heard that google home devices are now under Google Nest but what about cloud side of the teams? Are they also under Google Nest? TC- $350k #tech #google
- vote Google Team Match Play vs Store vs Next L3 Had a call with 3 team matching teams at Google. 1) Google Play - Deals with publishing applications on play store, auto updating android applications, auto updating play store itself. Backend role. 2) Google Store (Backend role) - Team that facilitates order returns/ replacements 3) Google Nest -
- Nest under Google Now that nest is back under Google hardware, how does this change internal transfer? I really like the team at nest, but would want to move to a different division/country in a few years given my girlfriend is in Europe.
- vote Google Nest Hardware Future Hi Blinders- Google has been reaching out to me with increased offers after recently rejecting their lowball offer … I’m surprised that didn’t deter them. Anyways, I haven’t thought about this before interviewing but want to know about the future business growth and career growth possibilities at
- Nest vs LinkedIn Have a couple of offers, Nest and LinkedIn being my top picks, LinkedIn is offering a Senior and a 270 - 290 TC, Nest is offering an L4 with 150k base, 15% target cash bonus (15-25% range) and around 300k stocks, no sign on Now, it's fairly easy to calculate LinkedIn TC, their cash bonus is 10% ann
- Nest-Home hardware product design engineering Nest-Home hardware engineering combined team led by legacy Nest folks - resulting in Same design mistakes being made product after product. Looking for ways to change culture when stuck with leadership that continues to live in the past even though past launches were not that great anyways with reli
- Google Bengaluru Interview I have my google interview coming up for google nest team in bengaluru location. What is the expected difficulty level for telephonic round? leetcode medium ? #leetcode #google
- Are google recruiters incentivized to hire for a particular org My recruiter is only giving teams in Google hardware division and Nest. How do incentives work from recruiter’s perspective? Can I get other teams if I say I am not interested or should I find a new recruiter itself? @Google
- How to invest first 50k? Hello blind folks, Been 2 years since I started working. Have built a nest egg of about 50k after paying off my student loans. I am now getting the sweet Amazon RSUs. Want to divest. Any idea? TC: 140k
- Is Google Hardware(Nest) a good place to work? Currently expecting an offer from google Hardware (this team was formerly a part of Nest) To the people who are currently at or have worked here in the past — 1. How is the culture and work life balance? 2. Do you enjoy working at Nest? 3. Opportunities for growth? 4. If I end up not liking my
- Google Team match Which of these teams has best projects, career growth and wlb. 1. Google search (assistant and transcribe) 2. Google ads (photos and messaging) 3. Google hardware (Nest, pixel , Chromecast) Any information is appreciated. Current TC: 200k
- Advise on Nest/google offer I interviewed both, neat did mention they are part of google hardware now, but at present they are still different hiring process. I am expecting l4 from google and l5 from nest. Assuming comp are very similar. Which one is preferred. I am more interested in google team and work, but also wondering
- Product Manager resume review please Hello all, I am currently looking for a PM role in tech with over 4 years experience in hardware (non-tech ) development and product management. My goals are - 1. getting a PM role in hardware teams in tech (ex:Google nest, Alexa home devices, smart home, Meta AR/VR devices). 2. More ideally, would
- Light workload teams at Google? I passed the hiring committee at Google and I'm in the middle of team match. What are teams/orgs with light work loads/great wlb? I was down leveled to l4 but comp will be a bit over 300k and I'm happy with that (remote). I'm looking to just put in a solid 30 hrs/wk and vest for awhile. Not intere
- vote Should I leave Oracle India? I work in a codebase which is heavily wrecked. 1000s of lines of functions. Careless nesting of loops, conditionals, and exception blocks. My day to day job involves applying patchwork over patchworks. I don't know how well will it go down on my manager if I ask him to change teams with the above r
- Help me choose an offer Have offers from Google, Uber and Apple for SWE role and not sure which one to choose. Google L4: Google sounds stable but boring. TM done. Need to choose between Nest and GCP. Nest team seemed better. Numbers not given yet. Location: Bay Area Apple: ICT3. AMP org. Team looked good and offered ro
- Google team change during interview I got a call from Google India for L4 SDE role at Home and Nest team. Team sounded to be doing embedded and iot work which I am not very interested in. Can I clear the interview and ask for a better team at later stage? Any reviews around the team. How tough it is to change team after joining Google
- Lyft vs Nest vs Amazon I have verbal offers from these companies for software engineering roles ( I have around 3.5 years of experience along with a Masters ). Will hopefully get the numbers this week. I am inclined a bit towards lyft as its still young, seemed to have good culture and felt like the work will be exciting.
- vote Google Team Match Suggestion Hi all, I’m currently in team match process and would like to get some opinions from this group! In terms of learning opportunities and team culture, what would you recommend? - Ads experiment platform (customer facing experiment) - Google Nest - Connect Sales Backend - Google Store I’m a backend
- NEST vs LYFT Autonomous Driving Got interview calls from both places. Any help in which one has more potential. Nest - all the chatter on exec leaving and merging with google hardware. Looks a bit chaotic Lyft L5 Driving - pretty new team being created in Palo Alto less than a year. Not sure how much direction the team has and l
- Google PM Interview - GCP vs Google vs others Hello there, Happy weekend mats! Question about Product Manager Interview process at Google, specifically about Google vs GCP vs YouTube vs Nest etc Does the process differ for different division? I see some openings at YouTube vs GCP vs Google Chrome teams and wonder if we prepare in a generic
- Jump Ship to Google ? M2 in FB, TC 1.2M (stock appreciation) got a IC7/TLM role with a smaller team and what appears to be manageable work load in Nest. Google is not ready to match TC but is coming close (1M) I am looking forward to having a kid soon and need WLB to be more tilted towards life than work for the next fe
- vote Google Nest vs Android for India Google Interview process with google has completed and i have to choose among these two teams. Will be joining as L4. Google Nest is responsible for google home app and focused on developing the ecosystem for iot device . Its an already established team so would help in guidance . The second team has work
- Google Bangalore: Projects, Promotions, & Compensation? I see too many job openings for Google India especially Bangalore region, however, there seem to be *very few* interesting teams/products that are being worked on there, considering Bangalore to be the silicon valley of India. Google Bangalore has the following teams: Google Home & Nest, Search, GP
- why someone’s code is not readable I had a coworker, whose code is disgusting. They have been working for 15+ years, and their code is the worst I have ever seen in my 7 year career. I don’t know exactly why their code is making me uncomfortable, but they have a lot of >500 line functions, and a lot of nested if-else, of which the
- Intern return from other bets to Google? For software intern at Google other bets (Waymo, Verily, Nest), is it possible to apply return to Google teams at the end of internship? Also, for new grad, “brand name” seems important to attract HR attention, so is it okay to put Google logo on LinkedIn or write sth like Google(Waymo) or Google(V
- vote I keep trying to get pipped but it’s not working! I put in 10-15 hours /week. Mostly just attend meetings and frame every deliverable as being blocked by an external team or engineer. I’m “driving” many projects but mostly just send a slack message to whichever engineer is actually running it, then report up. When the water gets too hot I switch t
- AWS to OCI - really worth it ? Got a verbal offer. They are saying its for a IC5 but not opposed to IC6. Its a Cloud CTO role as a part of the pre-sales engineering org. Is it worth the risk? Any idea about the team there? Life is good(busy) here at AWS, so thinking why shake the nest. Base: 215 RSU: 7K (over 4 yrs) Signing bonu
- Stuck at Sr. Any Advice to get to staff? TC 300k at signing, 🥜 after docucrash. YOE 12 Feeling like I'm a loser, would appreciate any advice. Spent many years caring very strongly about code quality, modularity, component design, api design and that knowledge seems to have just put me at odds with folks on my team, prolonging code revi
- Working in a messy codebase? Some teams really emphasize software craftsmanship. A thoughtful, extensible architecture implemented with readable, semantic code that at least tries to adhere to best practices like separation of concerns. On the other end of the spectrum, some projects are a rat's nest, cobbled together from if-
- vote PM: FRL (Facebook) vs Google (Random teams) I am a PM. Should I take FRL or Google. The teams that I got matched with at google are: 1. Google Image Search 2. Google Nest Hardware 3. Google Pixel I want to know based on the following: 1. I am on H1b so is there any risk (layoff, reorg etc) 2. Perm processing - I heard FB is not doing p
- vote decline google bc of no remote? current tc 190k YOE 0.5 drops alot after year 1/2 got google offer L3 tc 195k - maybe i can get like 210k they said they are starting hybrid work starting jan. rn im remote live with parents and live in a low tax state. so i have 0 expenses. livinbg in cali would make my tc lower also i really don
- vote Google Team Match: Hold out for NYC or take MTV and transfer internally? I passed HC for Google on friday, L5 PM. as I understand it, Team Match is severely backed up. I have 1 Hiring Manager interview scheduled with Nest. I’m from NYC and I’m dead set on staying here long term—but I aslo know G is WFH until 2021 at least. So its not like I have to move right away. Sho
- Google - Recruiting processes Back in December I applied for a generic google position (non technical role) and after a month or so a recruiter emailed me saying "the hiring team was impressed with my skills blah blah and would like to move forward with the next steps for the XYZ position". She introduced another recruiter and I
- Yet another Masters in US vs L1 post from an Indian I have seen a lot of MS vs L1 posts on blind but the answer always tends to depend on the situation of the person. So here's mine, - College hire, L59 (will be L60 in the July cycle) - I have close to ~9.5 CGPA and generally like CS - I like the idea of living in the US and have come to realise that
- link Interviewed for Meta for policy Comms / metaverse. Will I destroy my reputation? How much salary in Germany? Applied a while back but a recruiter reached out and we had a very pleasant phone interview. Even got asked for salary expectations which I didn't expect but I guess it's a procedure. Another 30 min hiring manager call will follow and I assume 1-2 longer ones with the team/future boss. However my f
- Fitbit Compensation Breakdown and Unvested Equity Considerations Pending Google Acquisition TC: 210K YOE: 12 Non-Tech I’m currently interviewing for a Director level non-tech role at Fitbit. Thus far the recruiter and I have not discussed compensation expectations and I don’t want to be the first party to bring it up. I have questions about Target Bonus and timing, RSUs and Unvested Equi
- Pivot Appeal: How to combat SDM's feedback of your private OE report about team issues described as "unprofessional"? It all starts small. First an L6 SDE-III tech lead cuts one corner to meet a deliverable or for a small win, and before you know it, the whole team is engaged in back scratching where the Operational Excellence is out of the window, and someone may have to get Pipped as the sacrificial goat because
- Terrible onboarding experience. I wanna quit. I’m only 2 months in, but it’s been hell. The onboarding experience has been the worst. I haven’t had a formal reoccurring 1-1 meeting with my current manager and every time I ask about it, they say they’ll get around to scheduling it. My onboarding buddy also went on PTO so I never had a go to per
- apparently 2.5M net worth is poor for non-blinders too I am a recent MSFT aluminus. I went to the bank to make sure nothing is affected before changing employers. The person quite enthusiastically offered financial services, remarking that they'd like to help individuals like me who usually park their stocks in tech and do not diversify. anyways, a fe
- vote Worth learning OOP as a Data Scientist? Hello blind. I’m less than a year into my new role as Data Scientist with no other technical background. I create, tune, analyze models in functions and nested functions. They get me the results I want and I just continue to improve it from there. My peers are satisfied in my coding (aside from add
- link 125 cold applications to 5 offers AMZN disclaimers: Not on PIP. Good team and work. meh comp. Blind Tax: 230K, L5, 7 YOE 125 cold applications across 40 companies 21 phone interviews/online assessments 15 virtual onsite interviews 5 offers Interview Summary: - All interviews were targeted for Senior/Staff Software Engineer roles.
- X-Treme Long Distance Commute??? TPM Google Newly created one-off L7 Was contacted direct by a google recruiter who told me that the specific team for this position had seen my LinkedIn profile and was very interested in me (they hadn’t even seen my resume when they offered me an interview) The position requires two different worlds of exper
- link Interview prep guide & tips - 5 OFFERS, 2x my TC! - Giving back - Ask me anything - Part 2 I am happy I can finally post and share! Thanks to Blind, I successfully received 5 offers. I'm here to give back. This is part 2, where I share my interview prep & tips. See part 1 which details my 5 offers. https://www.teamblind.com/post/M2VcYAsS BACKGROUND INFO: + I started from (almost) scratc
- A Failure’s Guide to the Facebook DE (Analytics) Interview Hi Blind, I’m fresh off of failing my second attempt at the DE analytics virtual onsite at Facebook and I want to help other people avoid that feeling of emptiness and despair that comes with rejection. I’m well aware this interview isn’t impossible, but I feel it’s hard only for the sake of being h