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Time to reevaluate what you think about Google and why you think that. Google is an advertising company not an IT company. Yes they use and create a lot of tech
by zcw100 6y ago
Time to reevaluate what you think about Google and why you think that. Google is an advertising company not an IT company. Yes they use and create a lot of technology but they don’t get paid for any of it. They get paid for advertising. They’re an advertising company and they do their best advertising for themselves. Their public image is a very carefully crafted one. I interviewed with them years ago and they are very fake, Disneyland type fake. It was clear that things were very deliberately set up in a way to make a particular impression. It wasn’t the obvious things like a company’s logo in the lobby is put there to make a deliberate impression that you’ve arrived at the correct company which is obvious and served a clear purpose but small things that aren’t meant to be noticed. Just one of many examples, I was waiting in a lobby for my next interview. It was a fairly standard corporate lobby except I look to my right and there’s this purple, Dr Seuss looking phone. Something you’d find in a toy store. The initial impression was, “oh those kooky Google engineers. One of them must have thought this would be cute and brought it in”. It looked like it had never been touched and probably hadn’t. The thing is if you went to another building you’d find the same stupid purple phone. Someone from HR went out and probably bought a dozen of these things and spread them about.
That wasn’t the only thing. That kind of crap was everywhere if you looked for it and I’m willing to bet that kind of crap and thinking went all the way to the top.
- mav3rick 6y ago"Couldn't get in, so they suck".
- sidlls 6y agoI failed a couple of FAANG interviews, and passed a couple others (working at one, now). I agree with the OP. This isn't about being able to pass their infantile, gatekeeping interview process.
- mav3rick 6y agoHypocrite much ? The process is infantile but I still want to work there ?
- sidlls 6y agoMissing context much? I'm a vocal advocate for changing the interview process to make it more rational and actually data-driven. And I refuse to conduct the coding panels. I absolutely will not participate in that, and I rip our internal coding question bank to shreds regularly for its ritualistic hazing quality.
- mav3rick 6y agoWhat is the hazing quality ? Knowing your DS and Algo over React frameworks is not hazing.
- corobo 6y agoGood luck seeing any of that if you're not from a good enough school or happen to not be a white dude https://twitter.com/RealAbril/status/1341135819487100928 https://twitter.com/RealAbril/status/1341135819487100928
- username90 6y agoDidn't that post just prove that Google hired hundreds of students from minority colleges?
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- corobo 6y agoIf that's the only bit you read yeah probably does from your pov Not really the message, but at least you read some of it :)
- Veelox 6y agoI would pay $20 to hear the story from her manager's view. It probably has a very different spin to it.
- FartyMcFarter 6y ago> or happen to not be a white dude White people are underrepresented at Google in the US, if you go by general demographics [1] [2]. This is probably not the best way to think about it, as there are many other variables, but it's also not at all compatible with "Google only hires white dudes". [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-ethnicity-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-e... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
- silicon2401 6y ago> or happen to not be a white dude do you mean asian? They're ~5% of the US population and ~42% of google's population according to the other user's link. Meanwhile blacks, hispanics, and whites have significant underrepresentation
- silicon2401 6y ago> Google is an advertising company I read this on HN a while ago and it's something more people should read. I think the term "tech company" is very subjective so I won't touch that, but Google is absolutely an advertising company with a bunch of side projects (hence why they always end up getting killed after a few years). It doesn't change my feeling towards google, but it helps understand them and know what to expect from them. Your kooky phone anecdote is a great example.
- syndacks 6y agoWhat point are you trying to make about the purple phone?
- darepublic 6y agoThe whimsy eccentricity is a calculated form of signalling
- ok_coo 6y agoA company always does its best marketing to itself.