I stayed 10 months. I was demoralized. As I was saying. Google actually celebrates its hiring process, as if its ruthless inefficiency and interminable duration were a sure proof of thoroughness, a badge of honor.
Perhaps it is thorough. And let me say this: if Larry Page is still reviewing resumes, shareholders should organize a rebellion. I was, like you, offered a considerable pay cut to go to work at Google. The relocation package was lame. So were the benefits. I had worked at Microsoft. Microsoft was self-insured, so there were no co-pays. He announced himself genuinely surprised, which genuinely surprised me.
Schmidt, in the presence of witnesses, promised to bring the benefits to a par. They work at Google because they want to change the world! A statement that always seemed to me a little Louis XIV coming from a billionaire. I ran into a similar irritation while at Google, actually — during that time when the minikitchens were being stripped heavily. I mean, look at the profit numbers.
Sounds familiar I was at Kirkland too. Google took longer than any company I ever worked for to get thru the hiring process approx 5 months from resume to job start. The interview process was very mixed: They had me slated as a Windows Developer for some reason, tho everyone on my interview loop wondered why.
I flubbed my first coding pretty bad but after that it was clear that no-one on my interview loop had enough experience or knowledge to level me. On the other hand they figured that out and scheduled a follow on interview with the head of the Kirkland office who asked reasonable and pertinent questions. Oh well, I thought my interview and hiring process was an anomaly.
I did however meet with Larry and Sergey during a product review meeting, and have only good things to say about these 2 guys. Regarding compensation, I did have to negotiate quite a bit to get on par with what I earned before.
What was strange with me at Google was: while outside, I had all these big ideas I could do if I ever worked there. Once inside, you have 18, at the time, Feb other googlers thinking the same things.
One last thing: Google also thinks inside a box the browser. I felt this a lot, and was another reason I left. Gears, Earth plugin. Yes, I do agree with Stephen about HR. Also, the whole exit process could be bettered and ironed out.
Job with Google is sure an experience. But, yes, bringing the perks on par with other bigwigs will bring down the attrition level to some extent, thou we all do understand that attrition is not a big problem for Google right now. I had an equally ridiculous hiring process — although mine actually seemed normal by Google standards until the result. My experience actually in Aug. So I ended up not eating at all that day until I returned to the airport at 4pm.
Finally he called to tell me that I was rejected because I was currently working as a Flight Attendant. A job I had started 4 months prior because it was a great opportunity to move into their management group but then the airlines started downsizing management and so I applied for the Google Travel Sales role instead. Lucky for me the recruiter agreed it was incredibly sexist and fought with HR to bring me on as a temp.
I got hired full time. Good think Larry is such an excellent judge of character. I have to say though, that level of bureaucracy remained pretty much the whole time I was at Google. I finally left after a lifestyle change moved me to Austin and they re-nigged on an offer to move me into the Travel Vertical role for which I was promised before the move.
But the management has no power to influence change because they are micromanaged by the Execs. The offered pay was way too low to survive in Singapore, so I left after I got another job offer that I felt was better for me. I really do believe that Google is doing some important work with humanitarian mapping projects and digitizing libraries.
I had a far different hiring experience — it moved too quickly! I spent all of 11 days working at Google before I returned to my previous now current ;- company.
I should jump on this opportunity. And I bought shares in , so I hope they continue to be very successful. I have been sitting back, surprised at the level of negativity expressed by those on this thread, and wanted to share my very different experience.
My hiring process back in was, like some of yours, somewhat drawn out, and I was made to contract for almost 4 months before being hired, but Google gave me a chance, and I gave Google a chance. Forget about the cool products I worked on over the years that are on the cutting edge of technology and impacting millions of people.
It seems that it is. I left a few weeks ago, after almost 5 years at the company, because I wanted to pursue a markedly different career path. I experienced the same painful hiring process all of you did. The reputation of Google is why I worked there for three and a half years. I took pride in where I worked and the work I was doing. I knew I could get paid more elsewhere but the caliber of people to my left and right was amazing.
I learned a lot and have benefited from the time I spent at Google. One auto has a 5 star crash safety rating, with good gas mileage, low maintenance costs and good performance. Another, has bluetooth for your mobile phone, 10 cup holders, sexy looking instrument panel, premium sound system, DVD player and seat warmer but has poor gas mileage, poor performance, bad safety rating, expensive maintenance, etc. Some will make a purchasing decision on what really matters; safety, performance, serviceability.
Google is the car with all the sexy features but very little of what really matters. My bitterness is almost entirely because of my manager. He was in my orientation group in Mt. View and seemed like a good egg at the time. My manager made sure that no other manager would talk to me and as soon as the head of the office left town he tried to put me on a PIP. Life is too short to deal with jerks so I felt I had no choice but to leave.
I do believe that I could have really enjoyed myself at the home office or with a different manager, etc. I started working at Google a while ago as an engineer when there was only the Mountain View office. Most recently, Breisacher and other former Googlers helped persuade members of San Francisco Pride to vote to remove Google as a parade sponsor because, they said, YouTube has allowed LGBTQ harassment and discrimination on its platform.
Wendy Liu, a former Google engineering intern, wasn't exactly an activist during her time at the company, saying she "bought into the myth" that the company was special and world-changing. Liu said she turned down Google's job offer after her four-month internship in because she found working there not as interesting and creative as she thought it would be.
After helping found a data-science startup that failed after a couple of years, Liu got a master's degree from the London School of Economics and realized she had an incomplete understanding of the tech industry. With her book, Liu said she hopes to reach those in the tech industry or about to enter it who "may be disillusioned by what they're seeing. I want them to know that the problems that they're seeing are indeed real problems. Liu urges the world to rethink the Silicon Valley startup model of securing venture capital, growing quickly, making a few people insanely wealthy.
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Quantum Computing. People Life after Google: Ex-employees keep speaking out as they move on. A former engineer is the latest to criticize the company in public. At that moment, the best thing you can do is get off and wait for a less crowded car. He added: "That train is your career, and what we all need is room to reevaluate, renew, breathe, stretch, strengthen — to come back and supply the world with our authentic art.
Why he left: Johnson left Google earlier this year after working there for seven years. Though he called Google a "dream job," he said that having children with his wife made him realize he wanted to leave California to live closer to their families in the Midwest. It's hard to develop a deep and meaningful relationship with your grandparents over video chat," Johnson wrote in a Medium post in May.
He added: "It finally came down to a question of our priorities as a family. How important was this job? Was it so important that we would sacrifice the family relationships for the money, security, and benefits? Did I believe that I would never be able to find a fulfilling job outside of Google? But for my wife and I, 10 years in California was enough and we wanted to come back home.
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