I interviewed with Google several times over the last decade. The last time I had more than a dozen interviews, including two visits to their campus ... and they took about 6 months to get back to me with a decision ... which was no.
Can't pretend I was happy with the process. Sort of got the sense that I was replaceable commodity, which I'm sure I am. They didn't particularly care about me. I wasn't applying for a technical role, and I probably had the same qualifications as dozens of other candidates, so they really didn't care about what I thought about waiting for months at a time with radio silence.
I'm at a start-up company now, and very happy. I'm working on a Google-X style moonshot, and I know if I was at Google I would have no chance of working on one of their Google-X projects, because everyone at Google is trying to work on one of those.
I also get the sense, based on stories, that there is a lot of politics now in Google (as there must be in most big organizations), and so somebody with no political skills, like me, is better off in a start-up.
Can't pretend I was happy with the process. Sort of got the sense that I was replaceable commodity, which I'm sure I am. They didn't particularly care about me. I wasn't applying for a technical role, and I probably had the same qualifications as dozens of other candidates, so they really didn't care about what I thought about waiting for months at a time with radio silence.
I'm at a start-up company now, and very happy. I'm working on a Google-X style moonshot, and I know if I was at Google I would have no chance of working on one of their Google-X projects, because everyone at Google is trying to work on one of those.
I also get the sense, based on stories, that there is a lot of politics now in Google (as there must be in most big organizations), and so somebody with no political skills, like me, is better off in a start-up.