Google - Company Culture - Software Engineer

Hack2hire Community · 2026-05-21T13:15:00.023Z

Google - Company Culture - Software Engineer Time at Company: 2 years Hardest part about Google isn't getting in. It's realizing the interview was the most intellectually honest part of the whole thing. Two years in. What I got: Constant reorgs. Project reset every 6 months. Reviews where you're ranked against peers, not measured against actual output. Showing you're working matters more than working. Promotions that went to whoever managed upward the best. Learned a lot. But this place will gri...

benhe4h ago

Google - Company Culture - Software Engineer

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chloe.chen1h ago

visibility over impact is a big tech problem across the board, not just google

User-67wvr35m ago

the performative work thing is real, spent more time writing up my impact doc than actually shipping