highlynt

Re:Does Google's Hiring Process Put Off Talented Applicants? on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:40AM (#13036979)

I recently joined Google and it definitely didn't work that way. You aren't usually interviewing for a specific team, like with smaller companies. But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in. In my case I talked to 3 hiring managers that were all working on the exact type of project I expressed interest in. I've seen it work this way a bunch of times when hiring for my team since joining.

I'm sure it doesn't always work this way but from what I've seen it's certainly the intention.

Re:Google and Amazon Vie for Big Inroad into Wall Street Data Trove on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:16PM (#12402755)

This has come up on HN before... One of the bidders has apparently run a load test on Google Cloud with some impressive numbers: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/03/financial-servi...

Re:Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business on Thursday November 19, 2015 @08:35PM (#10599025)

Has anyone tried Cloud BigTable? Performance numbers are compelling but I'm not always sure where it fits in with the rest of the GCP storage options.

Here's How the Unicorn Bubble Is Hurting Yelp

Posted by highlynt on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:18PM
from the recode.net dept.

http://recode.net/2015/07/29/yelp-admits-the-unicorn-bubble-is-hurting-its-profits

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Ask HN: Good Experiences Working at Google?

Posted by highlynt on Monday August 25, 2014 @03:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Based on reading Hacker News, Quora and the internet in general it seems like many people are complaining about the hiring process and actual work environment at Google. I'm just starting in on the interview process now - Can anyone share some good experiences working there to keep me motivated? Especially interested to hear from people who joined Google with a fair amount of industry experience.

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Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers over 200k, how'd you get there? on Saturday June 01, 2013 @07:33PM (#5806543)

Similar story here - developer at NYC HFT shop making $180k base + about the same in bonus and equity grants.

The work is mostly very interesting, low-latency java programming, distributed systems, etc on a small highly capable team. 40-50 hours per week.