Google History
What year was Google founded? (think back: when was the 20th anniversary?)
1998
What day does SWE Empire have its bi-weekly stand-ups?
Thursday
What percentage of SWE onsite slates should contain a G&L interview?
100%
Where will the SWE Empire be sitting come July?
MTV-QD2
Which team lead has a MOMA pic standing next to a cowboy BugDroid statue?
Jayhea
What is the name of Google's search engine algorithm which sorts pages based on the number of sites that link to it?
PageRank
Name the 3 buildings in MTV that have dedicated SWE Empire staffing rooms on the room cal.
MTV-1950, MTV-CL2, MTV-41
What go link should you use if you want to request a host but don't know the protocol at a particular site?
go/hpo (host prioritization order)
You may have received cancellations in KIR early in Q1 because some SWE's had moved to this Washington campus.
US-BVE (Bellevue)
Which of our leads prepped an offer packet for Larry Page's admin?
Janice (also worked on offer packets for Sunil Chandra, Prasad Setty, Eric Schmidt's 2 admins and many other high-profile Googlers!)
In 2006 Google acquired this San Bruno start-up over mozzarella sticks at a Palo Alto Denny's.
YouTube
How many team members do we have?
36
Name all five of the alternate queue scheduling roles that exist within our team (eg. Diver).
Parachuter, Diver, Skydiver, Jumper, Swooper
We schedule candidates in CL (Crittenden) and MP (Moffett Place), but we no longer send candidates to LMK which stands for this:
Landmark
Which of our leads had their first job serving food on rollerblades at a Sonic?
Jayhea
Google cheekily announced Gmail, widely thought to be a hoax at the time, on this day in 2004.
April 1st! (April Fools!)
SWE Empire is the premier piloting team! Name 4 projects/pilots that SWE Empire has piloted in the last year.
gRumpy, Lyft Pilot, SafeToFail, SEA/KIR On-call, fe-pilot, ios-pilot, and many, many more!
You have a last minute cancellation for an L3 gen SWE interview in SVL and you need a replacement. What go link should you use to find a last-minute interviewer?
go/sstoncall or go/onsiteoncall to access the on-call request form and availability trix.
When using Roomkey a room highlighted grey means it is ideal for a phone interview. A room highlighted light purple means it is ideal for an onsite interview. What does it mean if a room is highlighted light blue?
It is ideal for both phone and onsite interviews.
What Google campus is Melissa Gibans working from at this very moment!?
Austin! (US-AUS)
Google made the news in 2015 (later immortalized in a documentary) when its "Alpha" AI program beat a professional player in this game for the first time in history.
Go
SWE Empire sits under the umbrella of the Staffing Services Team, but if you've ever typed in go/sst you may notice that our broader team shares an acronym with what other Google branch?
Security Surveillance Team (SST)
How many Tickets did SWE Empire schedule in Q1? (Round to the nearest hundred)
5,700 (5,725 is the exact number)
An interviewer has agreed to walk as far as you need them to within MTV to take an interview. What is the furthest campus you could possibly send them to if they sit in MTV-CL?
RLS campus, Google X labs.
(I wouldn't recommend this - its 3.1 miles away and would take about 70 minutes)
You may know that many of our managers like SoulCycle, but who is the only lead that said, "I'm obsessed with SoulCycle" when asked for a fun Jeopardy fact about themselves?
Derek