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I recently joined Google and it definitely didn't work that way. You aren't usually interviewing for a specific team, like with smaller companies. But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in. In my case I talked to 3 hiring managers that were all working on the exact type of project I expressed interest in. I've seen it work this way a bunch of times when hiring for my team since joining.

I'm sure it doesn't always work this way but from what I've seen it's certainly the intention.

Has anyone tried Cloud BigTable? Performance numbers are compelling but I'm not always sure where it fits in with the rest of the GCP storage options.

Similar story here - developer at NYC HFT shop making $180k base + about the same in bonus and equity grants.

The work is mostly very interesting, low-latency java programming, distributed systems, etc on a small highly capable team. 40-50 hours per week.