Not toxic Great work life balance One of the best pay per hours worked
Bloated. Work is not that good. Lots of coasters. Transfer learning is low because of internal tech
10 yoe, 5 years at L5 and no sign of path to L6. Project priorities changed due to larger cloud initiatives. Effectively means no credit as no landing. Can folks list companies which are still hiring for staff level positions? I am willing to take risk and switch in this economic environment as wel...Read more
I am grateful to have received a lot of mentorship and supportive sponsors in my career. Hosting an AMA here to share the goodness. I've been both a TL/Manager and IC for many years. 15 yoe TC ~700k Note: No questions about Google specifically will be answered.
I don't expect to have a good answer for my question, but let me post it here anyway. I've worked at SAP for 5 years now and am happy to do low level things, building a large scale distributed data processing engine in C++. I like solving hard problems and writing code in the most efficient and ele...Read more
Moved from G to A for a title bump and more money. Blind poll was about 70:30, against the move, but I ignored it and did it anyway. It was an impulse decision after I got re-orged from Jan 23' layoffs, which reset my promo (2nd time this has happened). Why I hate Amazon: - Quantity over quality on...Read more
Just saw someone on LinkedIn that is supposed to be a “Career Coach” at Google. That a real job? Lol
Feel stuck at Google without any path to next career step. I heard many stories of people who left but came back to Google because of xyz.... Are there any success stories after people who left Google and grew well in career
Had a team match call that went really well, then the next day saw a job posting on the careers page pop up for the role I team matched for. The post wasn’t there before my call. Does this mean they didn’t select me and are moving to search for external candidates? Haven’t heard back from recruiter ...Read more
Yoe: 2.5 I passed the phone interview, the new recruiter has “Early Career Recruiter” title on Linkedin. Is this L3 role? #swe #engineering
Hello, I see that Google early career (1-3) YOE app opened. What’s the difference between this one and early campus? I’m assuming early campus is just for new grads and early career is for industry hires? Does anyone know if resume screening is just as bad for early career as it is for campus?...Read more
How does career growth look like at Google? From new grad to T4 to T5 and beyond (25%, median, 75%)? Also how does compensation growth look like in the process?
(I am sure this topic has been discussed multiple times) I am sort of disappointed with slow career growth at Google. What are you doing differently for good career growth in such a big org? Changing ladders seems very difficult, I have seen people having very tough to move to SWE or PM ladder from ...Read more
I can feel my technical skills and decision making actually getting worse. I'm wasting time and energy on pointless processes and aligning with everyone on the tiniest changes. Everyone throws around the word "risk" blindly to overcomplicate and slow down your work.
I cleared all interviews last year but team match never happened. Another recruiter came in and said they have a role for me and they only need 1 additional interview with Hiring manager to proceed. Interview is scheduled for Tuesday but I am now seeing that role is deleted from career's page. Does ...Read more
YOE: 6 TC: 320k Considering a move to Apple or Google. Google offered lv5, apple ict4. Let's say TC offered will be similar, which is better for career growth (promotion + learning) for someone hoping to promote to next level? (lv6 at G and ict5 at A) I like Apple's team a bit more but Google's tea...Read more
Hey Blind, TLDR; I need some geniune career advice: I’m thinking of jumping ship to Google after the 1 year mark at FB. The Details: About 8 months ago I joined FB Seattle as E5 SWE. I also had an L5 offer from Google for the Kirkland office. After negotiations FB’s offer was better overall (~405k...Read more
Hey guys, Looks like Google Early Career is still hiring, I’m not sure if new grad (campus) is. Despite applying for the campus role with a referral, I never heard back with an OA, and didn’t even get a rejection. I literally just got ghosted, which is disappointing because a lot of my friends ...Read more
About that Google hiring freeze, here is what my recruiter said today. “Currently, we’re reprioritizing where we will be hiring for the remainder of the year, so you may experience some delays in our hiring process. I wanted to give you an early heads up that it may take a bit longer than usual to h...Read more
I have been working for Google for almost 6 months but I haven't got any impactful work to do. Mostly I'm being assigned small bug fixes. Do you think my career will stagnate if it keeps going like this? What action can I take in such a situation (team change, serious talk with manager, etc)? YoE=...Read more
Straight to the point, coming from the startup world and I joined Google last year (L4). It was my dream company, I Interviewed multiple times across 7 years and I finally made it. First quarter was very chaotic, a lot to learn about google (not necessarily about the job or my role) so I focused on ...Read more