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Comment by ggambetta | Hacker News Reader

Come to Google! No forced management track so you can code for as long as you want, no ageism (colleague just turned 60; I'm 40 myself), will probably let you support a family, great WLB :)

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fine print: must leetcode for a year before entering. results are not guaranteed. along with the fact that you'll feel like an insignificant cog in a gargantuan machine

fine print2: Google is a place where love of software goes to die. A place where PhDs work on CI/CD systems and edit robots for text config files.

Thought this was sarcasm at first :)

I would love to work at google. I am an older coder and founder but I doubt highly I could pass the tests to even get an interview. :(

Give it a try :) I interviewed twice and was hired twice, at 30 and at 39. Don't believe the naysayers, the interviews are actually super reasonable! It's algorithmic, but not leetcode; it feels like "let's figure out this problem together in the whiteboard, colleague".

Having to reverse a binary tree or some other associated nonsense for a frontend UI role meant I turned the interview process at Google down. That and about 6 prospective hours of interviews for my application to then be sent to a "hiring committee" who ultimately decided if I was worthy enough of a job at Google, it just wasn't worth the hoop-jumping.

What was the TC difference between GOOG and the job you have?

Might be worth it for some people out there

> but I doubt highly I could pass the tests to even get an interview.

I don’t get this “won’t even try” attitude for a job interview - what is the worst thing that could happen?

Waste of time, effort, energy, and fear of rejection. Plenty of downsides.

And also they can't interview at Google for another year after rejection. So failing the interview has multiple costs associated with it. It's better to prepare well and then appear for the interview.

I feel like if you interviewed with Google, you should put "interviewed with Google" on your resume.

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