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Google gets away with this because they pay so well. An hour of extra interviewing gets you an extra $400,000 a year. Show up to a 1 hour zoom meeting instead

Google gets away with this because they pay so well. An hour of extra interviewing gets you an extra $400,000 a year. Show up to a 1 hour zoom meeting instead of having a long lunch, then put the money in your savings account (or in the stock market when savings accounts stop being so good) and retire at 35. I left Google for a startup and got basically half the total compensation. 6 years after leaving, I am making about what I did at Google 5 years ago and 2 "levels" lower. If I stayed at Google, I'd be making about $800,000 a year. You should really really ignore the distasteful feeling about being grilled by a bunch of strangers and just do it. (I actually really enjoyed my Google interviews. Problems I hadn't seen before that I came up with interesting solutions to.)

ipaddr 3y ago
But you left?
- jrockway 3y ago
  My project got canceled, so I went somewhere else doing a similar project. Everyone phrases it like they avoid FAANG because of the interviews, and not what they'll be working on. If you don't like your project, fine, leave the money on the table. If you do like the project but are mad that they ask algorithms questions, I don't think that's a good enough reason to give up millions of dollars over the period of your career.