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Right, Google actually has a 'no jerks' policy and values being a good team player more than pure technical brilliance. Being a good engineer gets you L4 (mid)
by quantumofalpha 5y ago
Right, Google actually has a 'no jerks' policy and values being a good team player more than pure technical brilliance. Being a good engineer gets you L4 (mid) or low L5 level at Google. Growing beyond that is mostly about soft skills and influencing other people - that's not compatible with being a dick. It probably wasn't the case for him in 2015 yet, but these days google has a mandatory 'googleyness' behavioral round that the guy would fail hard with that attitude even if he could invert the proverbial binary tree.
- eru 5y agoI joined in 2014 as L4 (I think), and I remember having some googleyness interviews even back then. But I could be remembering wrong.
- bawolff 5y agoI dont think its unique to google that companies want to filter out people who are "dicks". Every company i have ever had an interview at has done behavioural interviews for that purpose.