> yet they have no problem finding employees.
Citation needed. I know Google has a problem finding people fast enough.
Citation needed. I know Google has a problem finding people fast enough.
Google was a center of technical excellence up until some time around 2005-2010 or so but their real exceptionalism is having the highly profitable near-monopoly advertising business which lets them sustain technological and management systems which wouldn't be sustainable anywhere else.
Use google cloud? as opposed to what exactly?
I did a shootout of 10 vision recognition APIs including AWS and Azure. I had all the other APIs working in under 20 minutes, but Google Cloud took 2 hours just to get authentication working and wound up trashing the Python installation on my machine and forced me to reinstall it.
It’s just not a member of the same probability distribution.
And it is all like that, what is dead easy with competitors is a struggle with Google Cloud because the maze is truly in the mouse.
You did this while you worked for google?!
Internal overhead at Google, in my experience, is almost entirely constrained to stuff that relates to regulatory pressure that other companies simply skip.
Could that be Google's cultural problem? I have not real knowledge or understanding of this, but I was under the vague impression Google is unusually picky and elitist about who it hires (e.g. they want advanced degrees, an elite school background, or a FAANG background, and will turn up their nose at most normal folks).
My last round of interviews they down leveled me, yet I had a lateral offer from Waymo, and other companies upleveled me.
I was interviewing for a specific role, but my interviewers were from areas around the company that gave interview questions relevant to their area but not the area I was interviewing for, and was well outside my expertise. I objectively didn't do as well as other interviews.
Waymo, on the other hand stuck to my strengths in the interview process and was genuinely engaged with me finding a role there that Met my skills (I very regretfully turned the role down).
I'm a self educated (white male, if that matters) and was actively recruited by Google for a TPM position multiple times.
Honestly, the only reason I'm not working there today is because I wasn't willing to relocate to NYC, and they (strangely) aren't very remote friendly.
1) understand what you're being interviewed for (are you a linux kernel programmer? better hope they don't assign you an Android Java Frontend guy)
2) are good at interviewing (this is a difficult skill!)
and 3) don't dislike you for any particular reason