Oh well, I thought my interview and hiring process was an anomaly

Google’s net income for 2006, when I left, was 3 billion. 22 million a year? Less than 1% of their *profit*. “Thousands of dollars a day”? Even if it’s ten thousand, that’s still well under 1%.

Reduce profit by 2% to make your employees much happier . . . well, I know what I’d choose. In some ways it seemed like Google was getting increasingly pennywise/poundfoolish, and that just seemed like a dubious situation.

(Although, to Google’s credit, they opened up a new cafe that solved many of my food-related issues . . . after I left. Sigh.)

Sounds familiar (I was at Kirkland too.) Google took longer than any company I ever worked for to sugar daddy massachusetts 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. Lees verder →