A recruiter reached out to me about a google cloud position. I heard WLB is worse for cloud, is this true? Are there DS/ML teams in cloud?
My friend works in GCP as DS. But get through the interviews first. You’re probably months away from an offer and nothing said here really matters until you get closer
+1 in this. Took me 6 months to get an offer and 7 months to get layoff.
WLB is basically always better at Google than startups, but it varies by team rather than all of Cloud vs all of Ads, say.
Ymmv but I’ve been here just over a year. It’s chaotic & very intense. Some folks enjoy it but I don’t recommend it if you seek to live a truly balanced life. I’m looking to leave in the near future. But try to get feedback from as many people as possible & don’t take my comment as unilateral.
Agree with this. No WLB. Pure chaos. Do not recommend.
I’d said stop going by what you hear and ask for a champ for culture, everybody is different so what may be a lot for some may not be for someone else.