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 ?
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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.
Ask if your team has suggested onboarding codelabs and do those instead.
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.