Everyone has a study plan and list of resources they like to use. Different plans work for different people and there is no one size fits all. This by no means is the only list of resources to join a larger technology company. …

Couldn’t even match inflation About Me I’m a current software engineer at Google and have been with the company for close to a year. As someone who recently met all expectations, I came into my yearly compensation review with average expectations. Google couldn’t even meet those expectations and I’m not happy about…

There’s no reason it would stop Let’s be brief, Google will have layoffs again. In early 2023, Google had layoffs that impacted 12,000 employees. This impacted everyone including Workers on high and low visibility projects New hire and veteran workers Low and high performing workers Since the pandemic, Google was…

A personal experience. About Me My name is Alexander Nguyen and I’m a software engineer who previously worked at Amazon and now Google. From my 3+ years in software engineering, I’ve witnessed Amazon PIP and Google layoffs. I’m ready to share my experiences. But first let me walk you through what PIP…

Learn them at Google, Use them Everywhere. As someone who has worked at Google for 8 months now as a software engineer, I learned that being a great engineer isn’t just about writing code. To take my career to the next level, I had to work on my soft skills…

We’re not always happy leaving companies. — When I started working at Microsoft in 2021, I was excited to be working at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. I was living every engineers dream and never thought I’d move on for years. But when I parted ways from the company, I never realized I…

Daily improvements, lifelong changes. When I started my career at Google in 2022, I wanted to show that I earned my spot. But even after spending hours learning the codebase, reading documents, and designing systems, I struggled to onboard faster than anyone else. I showed up, worked my 8 hours…

It’s hard to meet expectations Joining Google I started my first software engineering job in 2020 at Amazon. Then I moved to Microsoft in 2021 and finally Google in 2022. It was quite a struggle for me because at both Amazon and Microsoft I was struggling as a junior engineer but joined…

How to avoid layoffs. In January, Google laid off 12,000 employees. This was a result of over hiring and over spending during the pandemic that did not extend today. Due to pressure from both investors and ChatGPT, Google decided to layoff 6% of their +186,000 workforce to recover some of…