Noogler question
Joining google next week as L4. I understand there is gonna be at least 4 weeks before I start working with my team. My team uses Java and I have 0 experience . Do you guys think I should use next 4 weeks to learn Java . Will that help me after I start working with the team ? TC: 290k #noogler
Java 8+ is really beautiful and easy to write but at the same time might feel a bit intimidating if you haven’t worked on it at all. Just give yourself a weekend going over some udemy or similar course and you’ll be fine. Don’t need to learn over the course of 4 weeks.
Beautiful? 😳
If Java8 is beautiful, then I am not sure what others functional languages out there are.
Once you join you'll see how a lot of shit is different here. The environments, IDEs, build rules, etc. You'll have time to understand it well enough.
This upcoming week is my last week of Noogler orientation. I started 3 weeks ago as an L4. My team uses C++ and I don't know it at all. Week 1 is basically a week off. You have no orientation stuff scheduled, your team expects nothing from you. In fact, you probably couldn't even work if you wanted to since it took 4 days to have the meeting scheduled to get my credentials setup up to let me use my work laptop. Starting week 2 you have 3 weeks of GTI Orientation. I asked my tech lead about C++ and he said to focus on GTI and worry about learning C++ later. What you'll come to find out is that Google is a special little snowflake and they have to do everything completely different than every other company. So you have to learn everything from scratch all over again. Moral of the story - learning it ahead of time is probably a good thing but you will also be given time to onboard if you don't know it.
The name of the orientation program. It like global technical introduction or something like that
It's my first week being a Noogler. I have the credential appointment scheduled for Thursday. Feels like there's nothing much I can do while waiting for the appointment. Any recommendations?
GTI is beyond useless. Ask if your team has suggested onboarding codelabs and do those instead.
Java is very similar to C#, the change will be IDE, tools web servers etc. So don’t worry will be easy to grasp it quickly.
Was your interview only coding questions or System Design too? And level at Microsoft?
TC break down please. and yoe
I would be a good idea. Your noogler project is a good place to start. Learning java knowing another language isn’t hard. Learning googles annotations etc on top of it will take a bit. As a year+ noogler it takes a while to get up to speed. Feel free to PM with any questions
Hey paganhack is there any framework used ie spring boot or just core Java.
Any framework in use in google or just core Java with internal framework
Did you specifically ask for a 4 weeks gap before start date?
What ?? Please read the post again
My bad, do you have some kind of orientation or boot camp before you start working with your team?