I recently got interviewed at Google for SETI role and was told that they didn’t get enough signals to hire for SETI role. However they can make a hire call for TE role. I was thinking of taking this offer as an entry into the company and then making a change internally. Wanted to know how easy/difficult is it to change from TE to SWE or SETI in Google. I don’t want to be stuck forever with QA role, however would not mind doing that for an year or so and then moving to different role
The role is TE, I don't think SET exists anymore. That was the old name for SETI. Transferring is totally possible but you'll need to interview again even as an employee. Sometimes if you're lucky a team will let you do some SWE work for a while to use in your ladder transfer.
Thanks for this. I meant TE in my post. Also can you give some info on the pay difference between te and swe?
It's less than SWE/SETI since it's more QA focused. Not sure specifics. You'll definitely not be getting any of the crazy TC numbers you see around blind.