Experience at GOOG: SWE III, Engineering Productivity roles?
Posted by D675vroom@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 4 comments
If anyone's got any experiences would be curious to learn more from the interviewing stage to working the role to post role opportunities.
Have been doing SWE for 4 years with a mix of SDET/DevOps/Scripting/Data Analysis as a non-cs engineer.
estimating 250k USD salary .
Not sure if its worth giving up remote but the post tax salary would double. rent would go up a fair bit too.
Nezrann@reddit
Have you landed an interview?
D675vroom@reddit (OP)
they want to move fwd. but i haven't leetcoded in 2 years and I never got great at it
Nezrann@reddit
There's usually a threshold for how difficult the questions end up getting and then eventually change to more system design focused.
I'm not sure what that threshold is at Google but I have had some ridiculously easy FAANG leetcode questions that were followed by the most unreasonable architecture problems lmao.
Good luck though! :)
KCdehImposter@reddit
I wouldn't expect the interviews to be much different from the general SWE track. In the behavioral, there might be some questions asking about how you improved the efficiency of the team or times where you built custom tooling.
For day to day work, it's going to vary on the team. In general, it's going to be a lot more data work to monitor and show impact. Projects will be of a smaller size taking from a few weeks to 6 months, with jumping around the code being quite common. Google has a lot of internal tools, and EngProd has a longer ramp up time because of this.
One last thing, it's hard to get out of eng prod roles. They're less desirable in the company, so it's easy to be locked into only transferring to other engprod roles.