https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/
and yes, they can EASILY afford it.
Is that why they do such big layoffs every year? They just throw candidates at the wall and see who sticks?
Now the trick is to get through the resume filter, and make sure this guy interviews you. Then, FAANG job FTW.
you need equal parts luck and privilege to get into faang nowadays; old silicon is much better in every way because of this.
What about hobbyists with no “standard” corporate programming experience, but have been noodling around with PHP/C/C++ for 25 years? (I’m actually not even joking anymore lol. Never had the self-confidence to try and make it professional).
I would have questions about how they work with a team and structure.
Are they going to be okay with planning work out two weeks ahead? Sometimes hobbyists do like 80% of a task and then wander off (it’s me with some of my hobbies).
Are they going to be okay following existing code standards? I don’t want to deal with someone coming in and trying to relitigate line lengths or other formatting stuff, or someone who’s going to reject the idea of standards altogether.
Are they going to be okay giving and getting feedback from peers? Sometimes code review can be hard for people. I recently had a whole snafu at work where someone was trying to extend some existing code into something it wasn’t meant to do*, and he got really upset when the PR was rejected.
Do they write tests? Good ones? I feel like a lot of self taught hobbyists don’t. A lot of professionals don’t. I don’t want to deal with someone’s 4000 line endpoint that has no tests but “just works see I manually tested it”
Tests? The only test is if it segfaults or not and does the thing 🙃😁. Thank you for the information.
that used to be a thing when i worked there (early 2000’s); we literally hired a guy who had no degree and his only experience was creating websites from scratch for the businesses that his rock climbing friends owned.
i’m sure they’ve raised the barriers significantly since then.