Joined google product about a year ago, but it’s been pretty lame so far and have only launched 3 features on a product I dont care about nor does my team. Just the senior management pushes however, and don’t get me started on it. I have been interviewing externally and internally but have been rejected pretty last stage after onsites with Facebook, twitter and a unicorn recently. I feel like I am just not making the cut, having google product experience certainly helps perhaps and also, I have an mba and a non cs engg degree. Any courses or books you guys can recommend? Zero interview feedback is lame but I feel like the technical aspect is where I lacked. Yoe - 4, tc 230k
Have you looked into Marty Cagan's work? I recommend Jeff Gothelf's Sense & Respond for a broader look at modern product development and Jason Fried's Getting Real.
Thank you blind stranger ❤️
? I thought Goog's PM bar was higher and more technical than Facebook's. Did you not get a tech interviewer (SWE) on your loop that asked pseudo code algo questions?
I did. And it was an interview I perhaps clearly only due to luck. The questions were mostly on google maps, and I happened to talk about a feature that had been in an internal beta. The engineer was very impressed and looked past my other shortcomings.
I interviewed a few from G and their problem was the lack of good storytelling and vision. are you sure that the issue is tech chops here?
what level are you?
4
How are you making 230 TC with only four years pm. experience? What is your base? What kind of technical questions did they ask? That way you will know whether you are lacking in API knowledge, or basic knowledge of databases.
Base - 160k. I honestly think I have bluffed my way through life so far. I didn’t expect my google interview to clear nor did I expect such a TC, I didn’t negotiate a single dollar. I have an impressive profile (most say) but I don’t think I deserved any of it. Just being candid and very sleepy 😴 the questions were mostly related to APIs and explaining different technologies to 5 year olds (YouTube, cloud computing, uberrush) etc.
This is exactly what I thought. APIs are the future. I would suggest you read up about how your acquisition apigee is fitting in, SAML, OAuth, API throttling, governance, etc. Also microservices and message queuing. These are heavily technical areas.