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I am so happy that early on in my career I failed at multiple attempts to get a job at Google (after having graduated Stanford in CS in 2008). Despite having already built some objectively impressive and popular projects used by millions of people, I was asked to solve boggle, random C trivia questions, and write a sort algorithm I'll never need in my career, all on a whiteboard, and I just wasn't comfortable with that style of interview.

I was upset for a while but just kept iterating on my own projects and now I am passively making far more than I ever would at Google even including generous stock grants (mid 7 figures). It's much more rewarding too, knowing I created my own destiny, and not just some middle engineer on a mothership living off of an easy adwords monopoly.

My suggestion to anyone who has the perseverance to get through a guide like this is to just forget Google and build something new yourself.