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Study Hall Learning Center

Study Hall Learning Center

Registration for 2015-2016 School Year is $50
Uniform & Parent/Teacher School folder included with enrollment
First Day of Pre-K is August 24th
CALL (210) 615-1414 FOR DAYCARE INFORMATION

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Cindy Melgarejo

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Mauro Leija

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Ms. Meg

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Ms. Rosa

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Ms. Pam

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Ms. Anna

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Ms. Mary

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Classroom Environment

We believe our Center environment must be clean, safe and well planned.  Our teaching staff is responsible for ensuring this.  Your child will feel safe and secure in our clean and comfortable classrooms.  Our child size furniture and equipment help your child develop self reliance in taking care of his or her personal needs.  Our Center offers block play, housekeeping, dramatic play, reading, quiet play, science, art and manipulative for exploration and problem solving.

Classroom Transitions

Criteria including chronological age, social and emotional development and self care skills have been established for each classroom. When your child is ready for an older group, you will be notified as to when your child can be expected to change rooms.

Lesson Plans & Daily Notes

The teacher in each classroom will post weekly lesson plans that provide information on activities and the skills developed through these activities. Daily notes are provided for all children who are infants, toddlers, two years of age, three years of age, and four years of age. This will inform you of your child’s individual activities and anything special that may have occurred.

Our Mission

WHAT’S OUR GOAL

We are sensitive to a child’s social, emotional, intellectual and physical needs.  We provide developmentally appropriate programs that focus on the process of learning and help children enjoy successful experiences.  We believe in providing a physical environment that is save, clean, healthy and oriented to children.  Classrooms are arranged to offer challenging play and learning.  We provide valuable social skills that students need to acquire for future scholastic development. We believe in positive methods of discipline.   We establish consistent, age-appropriate limits to help children function.  Our programs are designed to develop in children a sense of independence and personal responsibility.

We believe that honesty and sound work ethics are valuable assets that each staff member should possess.  We believe every member of our team has valuable skills that contribute to our combined success.  Each member has a positive impact on each child that they are responsible for by providing a nurturing environment which includes mutual respect for one another. We offer a school-oriented environment.  We believe that quality childcare and education are important to our clients.  We strive to create mutual respect between parents, teachers, and children.  We encourage daily communication between parents and Study Hall Learning Center staff members.  Our doors are always open to parents.

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Activities

THINGS TO DO

• Dance Class
• Gymnastics Bus
• Baby Signs
• Bilingual Program
• Age-Specific Programs

Our dance class offers children an opportunity to learn modern and traditional styles of dance.   The dance class is part of the Study Hall Learning Center curriculum and the class adds value to the children’s developmental growth.  The children attend dance class provided by Kinder Dance Alamo City at Study Hall Daycare Center.  This Dance Class is free to the enrolled students courtesy of the LEIJA stars project.

The Powerhouse Bus comes to Study Hall Learning Center to provide students with a fun and exciting gymnastics experience that includes a balance beam, climbing bars, etc. This program is free and available for all enrolled students courtesy of the LEIJA stars project.  More Information

All of our infant to two-year-old Teachers are certified in Baby Signs, the original sign language program for babies.  This certification allows our teachers to teach your baby or infant to communicate through sign language.  Babies that learn Baby Signs, talk sooner and obtain a long-lasting boost in their intellectual development.

Our program offers children an opportunity to learn Spanish.   We have a Spanish teacher that works with each age group for about thirty minutes each day with age-appropriate activities.

Our programs are based on each child’s social, intellectual, emotional and physical developmental needs. Each child is assigned to his or her classroom depending upon age and developmental level. All classrooms follow a common theme each week, but each classroom follows a specific curriculum that has been designed for each age group. Each classroom has the daily activities posted.

Testimonials

WHAT PARENTS SAY ABOUT US

My three kids have been attending study hall for a little over a year and I absolutely love it. I love all the staff & they are always so friendly. Most important I love that all three of my kids love it and their teachers.Naomi Caballero

I love it! My daughter has been there a month and I see the difference already. She talks a whole lot more and she adapted so well. Love it!!Julie Berlanga-Martinez

I just love it because you can see all the children are learning, having a good time, and involved in what they are exploring. It is wonderful to see how The Study Hall has a genuine concern for the well being of all the students. This shows by thorough planning of a variety of activities throughout the day. The owner and staff provide effective teaching skills, methods and philosophy. Finally The Study Hall shows a commitment to self improvement year after year. Congratulations!Tere Marquez Ocampo

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Thanksgiving

Study Hall Learning Center is closed on Thanksgiving & the day after Thanksgiving.

Christmas

Study Hall Learning Center will be closed on Christmas Eve after 2pm & all day on Christmas Day.

New Years Eve

Study Hall Learning Center will be closed on New Years Eve after 2pm & all day on New Years Day.

Good Friday

Study Hall Learning Center will be closed on Good Friday.

Memorial Day

Study Hall Learning Center will be closed on Memorial Day.

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The acceptance of applications for participation in the Russian stage of the American TOBY Awards

has started July 26, 2017

The Organizing Committee of the PROESTATE Forum is accepting applications for participation in the Russian stage of the international TOBY Awards in the field of commercial real estate management. The award is organized by the American Association of Homeowners and Building Managers BOMA International.

TOBY Awards can be nominated for office and shopping centers, industrial, historical, medical and government buildings, as well as suburban business parks. A prerequisite for the nominees is that the object must be in operation for at least three years. It is necessary to download and submit an application before August 15 on the official page of the award.

An international board of experts in the field of commercial real estate management evaluates the declared properties. Evaluation criteria for buildings include technical characteristics, interior finishes, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, emergency preparedness, degree of impact of the project on society, quality of interaction with tenants, level of competence of employees, waste management and air quality in the building.

The winners of the Russian stage of the Award get the opportunity to first present the project in Moscow at the XI International Real Estate Investment Forum PROESTATE, and then at the BOMA Every Building Conference and Expo International Forum on June 23-26, 2018 in San Antonio (Texas, USA).

Creative Expression and Movement – Action for Healthy Kids

Overview

Feelings don’t give a warning sign before they come up, so it’s important to help children create a toolbox of activities or expressive outlets to work through different feelings and emotions. Creative expression offers children an opportunity to develop important skills that support positive social emotional health including the ability to name and identify their own feelings, think critically about the world around them and practice self-regulation for positive behavior management.

Creative expression through movement also comes with the added benefit of physical activity – supporting the mind-body connection. The best part? There is no right or wrong answer! Feelings are special and specific to each and every one of us – so how we express them is, too. Use movement to bring the attention back to the body and have fun exploring feelings and emotions.

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Move to the music. Just turning on some music and allowing your body to move to how it makes you feel is a great way to get your body moving while reflecting on feelings and emotions.

• Make a playlist of songs with different melodies and intensity. Encourage children to move to the music based on how it makes them feel. A slow, harmonic song might elicit feelings of calm or mellow while an upbeat, bouncy song might bring out feelings such as happy or inspired.
• You can also create your own music. Use household items such as pots and pans, upside down cups, shakers made of rice in a plastic container, etc. Develop a list of feelings and emotions and create the sounds that come to mind with your very own living room band.

Interpret the sounds and sights of nature. Our surroundings can influence how we feel including the sounds of nature. It also offers an outlet for creative thinking and self-reflection.

• Step outside and listen to the surrounding sounds and look around at what you see.
• Draw a picture or write down a list. Think of what feelings or emotions come to mind with each of these sounds and how you might express those feelings through movement.
  • Snow is quietly falling – It feels calm and sleepy – I move with long stretches and quiet steps.
  • Cars are zooming along the street of a busy city – It feels energetic – I spin and move quickly.
  • Thunder rumbles – It feels angry – I dance with big movements and loud stomps.
  • The sun is shining brightly – It feels happy and excited – I move with hops and jumps.

Dance through the rainbow. Colors can be interpreted to mean different things and represent different emotions. Create a rainbow ribbon and dance through each color and an associated feeling.

• Create a rainbow ribbon stick or ring by using different colored ribbon or up-cycling strips of old t-shirts.
• Encourage children to think about each color of the rainbow (you can also add in neutrals like white, grey and brown) and feelings that come to mind.
  • Orange is bright and energizing – I feel excited and hopeful.
  • Green is calming – I feel relaxed.
  • Grey is hard to explain – I feel mellow.
• With their rainbow stick or ring, invite children to dance through each color and express an associated feeling. At the end, ask them to dance to all of the colors of the rainbow they feel today together. This can be done to music or with children speaking their thoughts out loud.

Tips

With whatever activity you choose, create space to reflect and “debrief” afterwards. As children explore feelings and emotions of their own, it’s important to give them an outlet to talk through them when needed. You can also do this through journaling or arts and crafts.

Reinforce positive ways to express feelings – whether through movement, creative play or quite mindfulness activities. Encouraging children to express their feelings in ways that feel the most supportive to them, helps them to develop a routine or “go to” strategy when feelings and emotions are running high.

Avoid discrediting how children connect feelings in some of these activities. Children may interpret sounds, music or colors to mean different things to them. Avoid leading questions that influence them to answer one way or another and instead invite them to share more around their connections and seek to understand their perspective.

Model creative expression by sharing in the activity with children. Children may feel more comfortable to express feelings and emotions if they see the adults around them doing the same. It also affirms that there is no right or wrong answer and invites them to express a little more freely.

Always be sure to invite not request. Sharing in feeling and emotions can be sensitive and take time for children. Building trust and allowing the pace to unfold at a speed that makes the most sense for them is key to creating an open line of communication.

Creative Expressions and Activities for Preschoolers

Most parents have the misconception that education is limited to only reading and writing. But the real goal of education is to hone your child’s skills and encourage their curiosity.

Every child has different needs. Every child learns at his or her own pace. Some kids are creative and artistic, while others are astute observers.

With one child, it’s hard to keep up with their energy and with the other, you wonder if they’re even in the room.

Encouraging your child to communicate using movements, words, and visuals is essential for helping them grow and develop. Here are a few creative expressions and activities every parent should teach their kids:

Dancing

There are various types of dances, and enrolling your child for dance lessons is an excellent way to help them grow. They’ll become more flexible, learn to balance themselves, and improve their focus.

Dancing will help your child learn about discipline. It’ll also help them use their energy positively. It’ll help boost their self-esteem and they’ll learn to express themselves confidently.

Drawing

Unleash the little artist within your child with art lessons. If your child has a creative side to them that’s begging to be let out, don’t hesitate.

Art itself is a form of expression. Let your child’s imagination thrive by letting them grab those paints and colors. It’ll bring their world to life and you’ll also get to learn what type of person your child is.

This is important because it will:

• Develop their motor skills
• Encourage visual analysis
• Boost self-confidence
• Improve concentration
• Establish hand-eye coordination
• Teach creative problem-solving techniques

Building

Given your child is above the age of 5, allow them to play with Legos (still supervise them).

This will bring out the innovator in them. It’ll also help hone their creative problem-solving skills and encourage their critical thinking abilities. They’ll learn to solve problems based on logic and not just emotions.

If your child is sensitive and emotional, it’s a good way to help them de-stress. You can also give them a cardboard box and let their imagination run wild.

Join in on the fun and you can improve your relationship with your child!

Ask them if they think the box is a spaceship, boat, or a car. You can even look up a few cardboard crafts videos on YouTube to help encourage your child’s creative side.

From a miniature wardrobe to a bookshelf, there are no limitations!

Puzzles and Word Games

Puzzles will help develop your child’s critical thinking skills and show them there is more than one way of solving problems. It will help think on the spot and this way, they’ll learn to remain calm during emergencies and develop mental resilience.

Words games will help increase your child’s vocabulary; they’ll learn new words and hone their reading skills.

Enroll Your Child into a Pre-School Program

A pre-school program will help your child learn to express themselves creatively. Your child will master the ability to adapt to their surroundings at their own pace. They will be taught different ways to express themselves and explore their creative side.

If you’re looking for a daycare center in Orlando, we offer an exceptional preschool program that uses a hands-on approach to help your child grow. With a safe learning environment, we will ensure that your child gets the love and encouragement they deserve to thrive.

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Formation of creative self-expression in preschool children in music classes

All parents dream that their baby will grow up to be a bright and extraordinary personality, a real creator of his life. However, the dream is separated from reality by more than one step, and in order for it to come true, parents must actively participate in the creative development of their child. Before the makings turn into talents and abilities, a lot of time will pass.

The current stage of the development of society is characterized by the formation of a new type of education, the meaning-forming factor of which is the idea of ​​educating a person of culture, a “person-creator”, “a person-creator”, capable of a positive and constructive approach to solving urgent life problems.

Preschool childhood is a period during which the formation of a personality takes place, its main personal qualities, character and mental characteristics are laid. The high natural activity of children ensures their rapid development.

Self-expression is a way that helps a child to express himself to others, to realize himself. Under the self-expression of preschool children understand the age-related manifestation of independence in creative activity. Monitoring the musical development of preschoolers shows that the development of creative self-expression abilities is often a “problem area” in the work of a music director. In this regard, the problem of studying the features of the development of children’s creative self-expression, the development of a system for the formation of their musical and rhythmic feeling, motor sphere, creative activity, which is one of the components in the development of the creative abilities of a preschooler, is important.

Taking into account the age characteristics of the mental, physical and speech development of children at preschool age, it is possible to single out some ways of a child’s self-expression. At a younger preschool age, imagination begins to develop, which is especially clearly manifested in the game, when some objects act as substitutes for others. We form the same ways of self-expression in music lessons. For example, listening to music in the upper register, light, moving, children transform into “bunnies”. Or listening to music in the lower register, children transform into “bears”. Relationships between children are conditioned by norms and rules and are manifested in play activities.

An analysis of psychological and pedagogical research has shown that at preschool age there is an integral system of objective and subjective prerequisites for the successful development of children’s creative self-expression in various directions and with the help of various means. And a special role is given to the activity of the artistic and aesthetic cycle, since, by its specificity, it is designed to create conditions for the development of children’s creative self-expression, to contribute to the disclosure of their creative potential, to solve the problems of developing creative abilities.

Self-expression of preschool children is reflex-impulsive in nature, due to the nature of the child. In children of middle preschool age, role-playing interactions appear in play activities. In music lessons, children can independently come up with a short fairy tale on a given topic, their own simple dance movements, draw a picture for a piece of music. All this characterizes the manifestation of independence of children and the desire for self-expression. During this period, children show situational-imitative self-expression, and it depends on the amount of knowledge, information, as well as on the conditions in which the child finds himself.

Self-expression at this age acquires new qualitative characteristics, the child can express emerging images in various ways: in movement, in feelings and emotions, in images and signs. Self-expression therapy is a current and growing area of ​​psychological assistance. The most popular at the present stage are art therapy and dance-movement therapy.

A child of senior preschool age enters the stage of improvisational and effective self-expression.

Based on this, we can conclude that each child goes through stages of self-expression: in the younger preschool age, the reflex-impulsive nature of self-expression, in the middle preschool age, situational-imitative self-expression, the older preschooler enters the stage of improvisational-effective self-expression, in children of the preparatory group, improvisation is activated but-figurative self-expression.

Thus, we can say that preschool age is sensitive for the development of the foundations of a child’s creative self-expression.

Magic Garden of Childhood » Site archive Conditions for creative self-expression of children of middle preschool age

In our work we present the experience of studying the role of the family in the development of children’s creative abilities in fine arts. The study was conducted in kindergarten No. 176 “Squirrel” ANO DO “Planet of Childhood” Lada “, Tolyatti, Samara Region. The study involved children of middle groups and their parents. Fine arts include the emotional and intellectual aspects of a child’s life. V.A. Sukhomlinsky wrote: “During childhood, mental processes should be as closely connected as possible with living, bright, visual objects of the surrounding world … The emotional richness of perception is the spiritual charge of children’s creativity. ” The world in which the baby lives and grows up largely depends on what feelings we, adults, bring into it.

How often and not always rightfully educating and significant for a preschooler adults, with their worries about material comfort, forget about creating elementary conditions for the development and creative self-expression of children .

We carried out our work on studying the actual problem in two stages, within one month. At the first stage – diagnostic – a survey of parents was conducted on the topic: “Conditions for the child’s creative self-expression in art.” It turned out that not all parents of children aged 3-5 understand the meaning of the question asked. 65% of the respondents answered: “We do not interfere with the child to draw, so we create conditions for creativity.” To the question: “Do you visit exhibitions, museums with your children?”, “Do you discuss books, TV shows, films that you have read with your children?” the majority answered, “Unfortunately, no. ” At the same time, 87% of the parents surveyed note that they have mutual understanding, common activities and hobbies with their children. The results of the survey of parents once again confirm the relevance of the stated problem. The results of further experimental work showed that already in the middle preschool age it is possible to teach children to express their emotions and feelings through independent creative activity: drawing, appliqué, modeling, manual labor, which means teaching them to think creatively, to be an empathic, responsive person, capable of reflecting their feelings. It was concluded that the participation of kindergarten teachers alone is not enough, it is necessary to involve parents in solving the problem.

At the second stage of the study, we offered the parents of pupils to create conditions in the family for independent activities of children to complete a creative task on the topic: “My mood”. Previously, a consultation was held with parents on the topic: “How to create the right conditions for creative self-expression of children in fine arts. ” The work performed provided an opportunity to analyze the role relationships in the family, as well as the attitude of the parents themselves to the creative task. 76% of parents did the work together with their children: dad painted a Christmas tree, and the child decorated it with toys; mother drew a fish, and the child drew algae around it, etc. Part of the work (14%) was done by the parents themselves, without the participation of the child. 10% of parents create the necessary conditions for the child’s creativity, but at the same time they do not directly participate, the children work independently.

Later, using the results of the creative joint activities of children and parents, we conducted a cycle of combined classes in order to form in children an idea of ​​role relationships in the family and family values; created conditions for creativity, encouraging the child’s need for self-expression through creativity, as a result of which an exhibition of drawings was designed, dedicated to the mood of people.

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How much it cost me to get into Google and get promoted without working there a single day / Habr

December 2020, the second wave of Covid is in full swing I am a remote PM in an American company. After my father’s funeral in Tbilisi, I was in prostration, I had to return to the USA and somehow change my position, because the money I earned was clearly not enough for a normal life. The very memories of my previous search caused me a cold chill and some inner voice quietly whispered: “wait, now there is a pandemic, many people dream of this, somehow get out …”.

Every day I tried to kill the pissant in me, and convinced that the crisis is always new opportunities, but the next day, he still crawled back and whined familiar phrases to nausea.

I registered a US number on Google Voice so that recruiters would start calling me and start sending out resumes. I sent out about a hundred adapted resumes and indicated on LinkedIn that I was actively looking for a job. Gradually, recruiters from small companies began to contact me, but I understood that the conditions in them would be at best 40% better than the current one, and this still did not solve my problems. Although it seemed that there were thousands of positions on LinkedIn, I had exhausted the main employers. I served mainly on Sr. Project Manager or Engineering Manager positions.

The realization came when I started reading teamblind. com – the best resource in the US for market analysis in IT and levels.fyi where you can see real salaries. I used to read Glassdoor, but the information on it is outdated.

It turned out that in the financial sector in the USA, which I was interested in, there are poor conditions and a toxic culture, the same in consulting except for companies from Big4 or MBB where you have to work long hours, but it is possible to receive 1+ million dollars a year by rising to partner. The most interesting were companies that call FAANG (Fb, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) sometimes use FAANGMULA instead of this list, rightly adding Microsoft, Uber, Lyft and Airbnb there – all of them are technological, innovative companies that not only create business products, but and technologies used all over the world. Companies that create de facto standards for the development of digital products, invest in scientific research, create legendary conditions for their employees, which attract the smartest engineers and scientists from all over the world.

Why waste time trying to get into a company that I’ll be transferring from anyway in a year or two?! On the other hand, the language did not turn to refuse real offers with a salary of 30-40% more than my current one.

But how do you get an interview at FAANGMULA? I’ve sent dozens of resumes to them before, but I’ve never received a response. I asked some people I knew who worked for these companies to make me a recommendation, but I got hints that they should be offered money or they were just reluctant to do so. The only reference they gave me was at Microsoft (Thanks to Sl.), but they never called me from there. I started to figure it out and found a service where for $50 you can get a reference to almost any big company, and then I generally found a way to do it for free – just anonymously ask about it in Blind, where there is a great community of people ready to help for free.

Voila – and in a week I get an interview with Amazon, Google, Facebook! Isn’t it a miracle?

In parallel, I agreed to an interview with everyone who called, for practice and experience, and, well, in case there was a special match with my Wishlist. And since, thanks to covid, it was possible to intervene online, this did not prevent me from working and preparing for the main events.

Of the interesting interviews I had in several banks. At City Bank, I was going to the position of senior vice president of digital lending development with a hundred engineers. During the interview, I was not asked ANY questions regarding my qualifications. They looked at my charisma, flexibility, and then verbally offered a good amount. Hell, if they select employees like that, then I’m sure there will be a lot of people there to deal with jokes and intrigues, but who will work, I thought, and refused to continue. In other banks and fintech startups, they started asking me in detail about specific algorithms, or the CEO interrupted everyone and started asking me about the details of Georgian cuisine. I think I got this far in all of these interviews because I didn’t take them seriously at first, and I wasn’t afraid to throw in a joke or ask a pointed question, and I was generally confident.

Another bank sent me an invitation for 4 interviews on the same day and one of the calls was at 8 am. I think it is strange that without approval they sent me such an early invitation. An hour later, I receive a letter from the recruiter asking for a morning call – I answer that “everything is OK, I have already received the invitation”, but it turned out that he asks to reschedule this call even earlier – to 7 in the morning. I agreed, and when I connected at 7 am, a bright yellow blonde in a business suit was waiting for me there. And this is in America at a distance! At that time, I already had a hundred interviews behind me, including Google, Fb, Amazon, and this was very different from the overall picture. What a signal she wanted to send me by scheduling an interview so early, in a suit at a distance, talking without a single smile. Perhaps in Europe or another country it could be normal, I myself love costumes, but definitely not in the USA. And yes, I didn’t pass the interview.

The first call with Google lasted 30 minutes, I talked about the current project and my experience. A day later, they sent me a letter notifying me that I had passed the screening with the recruiter, and then I was waiting for an interview with a Googler working in the role that I applied for. It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over me – I realized that everything was serious now, I had a chance to get an interview with the best company in the world, which I had dreamed of since my student days, when I filed a whole search engine for the Georgian Internet and won with her university olympiad.

Two weeks later, I was scheduled for stage II at Google – 45-60 minutes with another TPM (Technical Program Manager) where the interviewer touches on a couple of questions from all areas of the interview (design, teamwork, leadership, etc.) If he finds a weak spot , then that’s where it ends.

I was lucky that I began to prepare a month before I had my first call with Google, and therefore I had, in general, several months to fully prepare. I think that other guys, repeating my steps, will be able to get similar results.

I also passed this stage thanks to 6 sessions with different coaches and a lot of material worked out, and now I was waiting for a full day of the so-called onsite interview – five hour interviews in a row. Previously, they were held at the company’s office, but due to the pandemic, everything moved online. A similar format is now used by almost all large technical corporations. Each interviewer has his own goal, for which he (a) is looking for signals in the answers. For example, the focus may be to determine your relationship with users, and you will be asked about how you lead a project or manage changes, with the hope of hearing your approach to this in the answers.

3 out of 5 interviews were behavioral interviews where I was asked how I managed risks, resolved conflicts, gave the user more than they asked for, and when I made decisions without having enough data to do so.

Preparing for an interview, you need to understand what exactly your interviewers will try to hear in each session, and this, by the way, is not quite simple. In Amazon’s case, it’s a few specific principles from their 14 core leadership principles, but on Facebook, they don’t measure by their 5 principles. In the case of Google, I have adapted my answers by showing:

• The primacy of the user’s interests

• The ability to enter and exit conflicts with an emphasis on the interests and health of employees.

• When I didn’t know what to demonstrate in response to a specific question, I reduced it to one of Amazon’s leadership principles, and although this did not always fit the company’s culture, at least the answers had a strong logic. That is, the Amazonian principles have become such a basis for my interviewing strategy for all companies. Therefore, when aiming at FAANG, I advise you to start preparing with Amazon.

In short, my formula for success was

1. Coaching! This is probably the most important of all points, it is unlikely that I would have succeeded without it. I have tried different coaches and here are a few that I think are the best. For each company, before the interview, I took several sessions with coaches who have worked for many years in these companies and participated in hundreds of interviews. They honed my stories for behavioral interviews for a specific company. Write, I can advise superstars for Google and Amazon.

2. System design content – paid courses, YouTube videos, articles (3 months)

3. Training interviews with other applicants on the Igotanoffer.com, tryexponent.com portals. In total, I spent 20-30 sessions in which we took turns intervening and giving feedback for an hour.

Before the main day of the Google interview, I had a couple of weeks. I started the countdown. The focus of my whole life has become one – not to miss anything. I took a few days off and spent dozens of hours researching everything on the Internet that could help me, I read a few books, I studied and monitored chats and forums. Every day I had several interviews, whether they were training, with coaches or in real, but in secondary companies for me. A week later, I had a successful FB and Amazon screening, and I also needed to start preparing for their afternoon virtual-onsite interview.

If you don’t pass an interview with all these companies, then you can get to the next interview at best a year later, so I practically cut off communication not only with friends and acquaintances, but even with my son and mother, I left the house only for food and in the hall – to squeeze out horror and irritation.

I must pass! I must win!

The more I invested, the more important it became to me. I bought all the PM interviewing courses and honed my interviewing skills with people and just myself on paper. At some point, the interview with Google was postponed for a week and I remember how confusion visited me – there was more time than was originally planned. I stupidly did not know how to use it and what to study. For conceptual knowledge, this was not enough, but for patching holes too much. I started racing, am I wasting time correctly, or maybe I’m missing something ….

One evening, my girlfriend and I went out to dinner at a nearby bar and we struck up a conversation with a black, cheerful guy. At some point, he took out a business card and it turned out that he works at Google. When I told him about my case, he said – don’t be nervous now you are in good hands, you have a sponsor, call me tomorrow and we will discuss the next steps.

Miracle! Or is it some kind of sign? What is another sponsor?

When I wrote to him the next day, as you might expect, he sent me the standard recruitment information from Google and said that he would be happy to celebrate success with me (if successful), but now he can’t help. Such a gentleman, it’s still funny when I remember.

The interview was scheduled for Monday. The day before, it was a sunny March day, I decided to take a break – I walked around Brooklyn, ate ice cream, bought a couple of T-shirts. After lunch I returned home. It was starting to get dark, and there was a party going on in the bar by the house. As soon as I entered the entrance, a shootout began, where my neighbor was shot and someone was wounded. The shooters got into cars and the chase began.

That night I didn’t manage to rest and sleep, sirens and screams outside the windows, two noisy helicopters hung at a low altitude. At about three o’clock in the morning, I threw off my earplugs and trudged to the refrigerator to eat mint ice cream with a tablespoon. So much preparation and now everything can break down due to the fact that I just can’t sleep.

I stood in what my mother gave birth in the living room flooded with light from the next house in front of large windows and looked at the departing train, I understood that I had done my best, but this did not guarantee me good luck. Everything is the will of God, and tomorrow we must accept what will be, with gratitude, and move on. Whatever happened. And if I have to succeed, then I will not be prevented by any problems with the Internet, or fucking helicopters, or gaps in my training. And after many years, I fell on the wooden floor and prayed hard for a long time.

Thinking what ELSE I can do, I wandered off to make myself a background for a virtual call, but in the morning I still passed out so that I almost overslept the beginning.

A week of silence followed the interview. For every phone call and email, my heart began to flutter, but there was still no news, in the meantime, I was in full swing preparing for Amazon and Facebook. This time I was not so nervous, because I knew what to expect.

These days I did a poll on Blind to find out how many attempts it took on average for participants to get into FAANG. It turned out that one third of the respondents got there already after 9attempts! In Google, 1 out of 200 applicants gets a full interview cycle, and 1 out of 5 passes this interview with a positive result.

With Facebook, my mistake was that I did not work with a coach specifically for Facebook, as I was told that Facebook is a simplified version of the Google interview, but this is not true at least for the TPM role, which, unlike Google, contains also features Product Owner. In a systems design session, I was asked to build a food delivery system. After defining the requirements, I began to paint a high-level architecture, and I was asked to describe how I would prioritize the requirements and what kind of UI the application would have. I quickly responded and started to continue talking about the technical components, but from the follow-up questions, I realized that the interviewer wanted more information about the product, which I was not quite ready to answer. As a result, I did not pass the interview, but the impressions from FB were very positive.

The Amazon interview was a little different. First, I was asked to write an essay on one of two standard topics. I chose the topic – “what is the most innovative thing I have done in my life. ” I spent about 15 hours writing two drafts and reading all sorts of tips on how to do it right.

Interviews were chaotic, if on Google and Facebook I had 5-10 minutes between sessions for biological needs, then with Amazon the previous interviewer went beyond his hour and the next interviewer had to wait and listen to us. And so non-stop.

In a systems design session at Amazon, I was asked to build a security system for elevators in buildings. An interesting task, I have not seen such examples in the courses that I took. As a result, we had an hour-long discussion, in which I drew this diagram. The interviewer seemed to be very pleased.

An interesting insight that I made for myself was that it’s better not to talk about agile or in general about a specific management methodology. It was evident that in all three companies adherence to some fixed methodology was seen more as a limitation than a plus. In banks, by the way, it was the opposite, there were questions about the knowledge of Scrum and SAFe.

It’s been 10 days since the Google interview, I felt like I was going crazy, I was demotivated to stay at my current job, and I couldn’t understand what Google’s long silence meant.

I was completely burned out, had lunch, and then could not remember if I ate at all, not to mention the fact that I absolutely did not remember what exactly I ate. On the emotional plane, I also became like a robot, and it was not easy to get out of this state.

In the afternoon, a call came from an unknown number – a recruiter from Google called and slowly said that I received positive feedback from and she is preparing my case for the recruitment committee.

Hurray!!! I screamed and jumped around the apartment with happiness! I couldn’t believe I made it!

She asked me for a few contacts inside and outside of Google who to contact to get feedback on me, which should have solidified my case for the committee.

It was no less a miracle to find out that I also went to Amazon, but I was not going to work with them because there were many posts about their toxic culture and bad attitude towards employees. Amazon was important to me in order to have a competitive offer that would allow me to negotiate a better salary with Google.

I bought tickets to Mexico to relax and celebrate, and this could have been the point of my story, but it wasn’t. Three more interesting months of negotiations and additional interviews were waiting for me!

After the approval of the committee, I was assigned the fourth level. I did not quite understand what this meant and started the so-called team-matching calls. That is, after passing the interview, I got into the list of approximately 40 program managers who were interviewed, who met with different teams on Google, and if both parties liked each other, then the applicant was already made an official offer. Such is the Google Tinder, where some candidates could hang like that for up to a year.

The first two calls were with the hardware teams in the data center. It was a nightmare! The last thing I wanted to do in my life was to do this. And plus you had to move to rainy Seattle! At some point, I thought that it’s not so bad for me to work in the current company …

After a few calls, I did find an interesting team working in Silicon Valley. Hooray, there is a coincidence!

A recruiter called me and named the range that Google is willing to pay. Compensation there is determined by three components – a base salary with an annual bonus, company shares and a bonus when signing a contract. To be honest, the offer I was given was far from the numbers I was dreaming of at levels.fyi, and I turned to one of my coaches for advice. The coach advised me to apply to one company that (attention!) deals only with helping candidates in the FAANGMULA company with salary negotiations.

I left a request on the site and already in the morning of the next day I had a real “interrogation” to find out all the details of my relationship with Google and Amazon recruiters. Then they sent me four files with a description of the strategy and verbatim scripts of negotiations. After they called me and checked how I learned them and even helped to correct the speed of phrases and focus.

A small fragment of scripts:

Although Google is known for being very reluctant to revise the assigned levels, thanks to this company I managed to do this. It saved me a couple of years of my career and allowed me to get a much higher salary. It is interesting that the head of the team with which we chose each other became my great lawyer. For her, this meant that if I passed the 5th level, I would no longer be able to work with her, since her role was only for the 4th level. Thank her very much for this! It was unexpected and confirmed my positive expectations of Google culture.

It took two more interviews, but it wasn’t that difficult, the conversation was free-flowing, where I talked about my previous projects. No complex behavioral or technical issues.

Then new team-matching calls started. There were fewer interested teams, and then I didn’t like them, then I didn’t like them. A month has passed. There are no matches with the teams and no new calls either. Will they still AT ALL??

When will this all end?!

Whistling in ears again. I started to get nervous.

Days have passed, several teams have appeared. One in New York and one in Mountain View California, both liked me. The choice is not easy.

On the one hand, I have already settled down in NY, and I like it, on the other hand, this is a chance to live in Silicon Valley and, it seems, this is the best place for a career. When if not now!? Moreover, the team from the Valley was undergoing a transformation, in which I usually feel comfortable, and in general they were engaged in game consoles, which, after fintech and government services with ironed collars, generally seemed like a fairy tale. So the decision has been made! Another move of thousands of kilometers and a new life!

The last step was a simple background check and salary negotiation. My negotiation consultant connected to them and helped me with the answers in the chat. After each call, the scripts were updated. It is interesting that with Amazon I could not reach the end and get an offer, I can’t even imagine how much time it would take me to end up with them, these guys are very slow. In the end, without even having a written parallel offer from Amazon, my consultants helped me negotiate 50% better compensation.

My dream came true!

So maybe yours! After all, I’m a simple guy, living only two years in the US, with no local education, no special acquaintances. That’s why I wrote this and previous articles. I hope that in the coming years, there will be more guys from the former Soviet countries in top companies!

And finally some numbers

• My financial costs for the whole process are about $10,000

• Number of interviews and team-matchings with Google (not including negotiations with a recruiter) – 21 sessions

• Number of letters in correspondence with Google before receiving an offer – about 150

• Duration of the process from submitting a resume to starting work – 6 months

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December 2020, the second wave of Covid is in full swing. I am a remote PM in an American company. After my father’s funeral in Tbilisi, I was in prostration, I had to return to the USA and somehow change my position, because the money I earned was clearly not enough for a normal life. The very memories of my previous search caused me a cold chill and some inner voice quietly whispered: “wait, now there is a pandemic, many people dream of this, somehow get out …”.

Every day I tried to kill the pissant in me, and convinced that the crisis is always new opportunities, but the next day, he still crawled back and whined familiar phrases to nausea.

I registered a US number on Google Voice so that recruiters would start calling me and start sending out resumes. I sent out about a hundred adapted resumes and indicated on LinkedIn that I was actively looking for a job. Gradually, recruiters from small companies began to contact me, but I understood that the conditions in them would be at best 40% better than the current one, and this still did not solve my problems. Although it seemed that there were thousands of positions on LinkedIn, I had exhausted the main employers. I served mainly on Sr. Project Manager or Engineering Manager positions.

The realization came when I started reading teamblind.com – the best resource in the US for market analysis in IT and levels.fyi where you can see real salaries. I used to read Glassdoor, but the information on it is outdated.

It turned out that in the financial sector in the USA, which I was interested in, there are poor conditions and a toxic culture, the same in consulting except for companies from Big4 or MBB where you have to work long hours, but it is possible to receive 1+ million dollars a year by rising to partner. The most interesting were companies that call FAANG (Fb, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) sometimes use FAANGMULA instead of this list, rightly adding Microsoft, Uber, Lyft and Airbnb there – all of them are technological, innovative companies that not only create business products, but and technologies used all over the world. Companies that create de facto standards for the development of digital products, invest in scientific research, create legendary conditions for their employees, which attract the smartest engineers and scientists from all over the world.

Why waste time trying to get into a company that I’ll be transferring from anyway in a year or two?! On the other hand, the language did not turn to refuse real offers with a salary of 30-40% more than my current one.

But how do you get an interview at FAANGMULA? I’ve sent dozens of resumes to them before, but I’ve never received a response. I asked some people I knew who worked for these companies to make me a recommendation, but I got hints that they should be offered money or they were just reluctant to do so. The only reference they gave me was at Microsoft (Thanks to Sl.), but they never called me from there. I started to figure it out and found a service where for $50 you can get a practical reference to any big company, and then I generally found a way to do it for free – just anonymously ask for it in Blind, where there is a great community of people ready to help for free.

Voila – and in a week I get an interview with Amazon, Google, Facebook! Isn’t it a miracle?

In parallel, I agreed to an interview with everyone who called, for practice and experience, and, well, in case there was a special match with my Wishlist. And since, thanks to covid, it was possible to intervene online, this did not prevent me from working and preparing for the main events.

Of the interesting interviews I had in several banks. At City Bank, I was going to the position of senior vice president of digital lending development with a hundred engineers. During the interview, I was not asked ANY questions regarding my qualifications. They looked at my charisma, flexibility, and then verbally offered a good amount. Hell, if they select employees like that, then I’m sure there will be a lot of people there to deal with jokes and intrigues, but who will work, I thought, and refused to continue. In other banks and fintech startups, they started asking me in detail about specific algorithms, or the CEO interrupted everyone and started asking me about the details of Georgian cuisine. I think the reason I got this far in all of these interviews was because I didn’t take them seriously at first, and I wasn’t afraid to throw in a joke or ask a sharp question, and I was generally confident.

Another bank sent me an invitation for 4 interviews on the same day and one of the calls was at 8 am. I think it’s strange that without approval they sent me an invitation so early. An hour later, I receive a letter from the recruiter asking for a morning call – I answer that “everything is OK, I have already received the invitation”, but it turned out that he asks to reschedule this call even earlier – to 7 in the morning. I agreed and when I connected at 7 am, a bright yellow blonde in a business suit was waiting for me there. And this is in America at a distance! At that time, I already had a hundred interviews behind me, including Google, Fb, Amazon, and this was very different from the overall picture. What a signal she wanted to send me by scheduling an interview so early, in a suit at a distance, talking without a single smile. Perhaps in Europe or another country it could be normal, I myself love costumes, but definitely not in the USA. And yes, I didn’t pass the interview.

The first call with Google lasted 30 minutes, I talked about the current project and my experience. A day later, they sent me a letter with a notification that I had passed the screening with the recruiter and then I was waiting for an interview with a Googler working in the role that I applied for. It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on me – I realized that everything was serious now, I had a chance to get an interview with the best company in the world, which I had dreamed of since my student days, when I filed a whole search engine for the Georgian Internet and won with her university olympiad.

Two weeks later, I was scheduled for stage II at Google – 45-60 minutes with another TPM (Technical Program Manager) where the interviewer touches on all areas of the interview with a couple of questions (technical design, teamwork, leadership, etc.) If he finds a weak spot then that’s where it all ends.

I was lucky that I began to prepare a month before, immediately after my first call with Google, and therefore I had a total of several months to fully prepare. I think that other guys repeating my steps will be able to get similar results. What resources I used, I will later post on my instagram.

I also passed this stage thanks to 6 sessions with different coaches and a lot of material worked out, and now I was waiting for a full day of the so-called onsite interview – five hour interviews in a row. Previously, they were held at the company’s office, but due to the pandemic, everything moved online. A similar format is now used by almost all large technical corporations. Each interviewer has his own goal, for which he (a) is looking for signals in the answers. For example, the focus may be on defining your relationship with users, and you will be asked about how you lead a project or manage change, with the hope of hearing your approach to this in the answers.

3 out of 5 interviews were behavioral, where I was asked how I managed risks, resolved conflicts, gave the user more than they asked for, and when I made decisions without having enough data to do so.

Preparing for an interview, you need to understand what exactly your interviewers will try to hear in each session, and this, by the way, is not quite simple. In Amazon’s case, it’s a few specific principles from their 14 core leadership principles, but on Facebook, they don’t measure by their 5 principles. In the case of Google, I have adapted my answers by showing:

• Precedence of user interests
• The ability to enter and exit conflicts with an emphasis on the interest and health of employees.
• When I didn’t know what to demonstrate in response to a specific question, I reduced it to one of Amazon’s leadership principles, and while it didn’t always fit with the company’s culture, at least the answers had a strong logic. That is, the Amazonian principles have become such a basis for my interviewing strategy for all companies. Therefore, when aiming at FAANG, I advise you to start preparing with Amazon.

In short, my formula for success was

• Coaching! This is probably the most important of all points, it is unlikely that I would have succeeded without it. I have tried different coaches and here are a few that I think are the best. For each company, before the interview, I took several sessions with coaches who have worked for these companies for many years and participated in hundreds of interviews. They honed my stories for behavioral interviews for a specific company. Write, I can advise superstars for Google and Amazon.
• Systems design content – paid courses, YouTube videos, articles (3 months) I will post a specific list of resources on my instagram. [AG1]
• Training interviews with other applicants on the portals Igotanoffer.com, tryexponent.com. In total, I spent 20-30 sessions, in which we interned and gave feedback for an hour in turn.

Before the main day of the Google interview, I had a couple of weeks. I started the countdown. The focus of my whole life has become one – not to miss anything. I took a few days off and spent dozens of hours researching everything on the Internet that could help me, I read a few books, I studied and monitored chats and forums. Every day I had several interviews, whether they were training, with coaches or in real, but in secondary companies for me. A week later, I had a successful screening in FB and Amazon, and I also had to start preparing for their daily virtual-onsite interview.

If you don’t pass an interview with all these companies, then you can get to the next interview at best a year later, so I practically cut off communication not only with friends and acquaintances, but even with my son and mother, I left the house only for food and in the hall – to squeeze out horror and irritation.

I must pass! I must win!

The more I invested, the more important it became to me. I bought all the courses on interviewing PMs (see on my instagram) and honed my interview skills with people and just myself on paper. At some point, the interview with Google was postponed for a week and I remember how confusion visited me – there was more time than was originally planned. I stupidly did not know how to use it and what to study. For conceptual knowledge, this was not enough, but for patching holes too much. I started racing, am I wasting time correctly, or maybe I’m missing something ….

One evening, my girlfriend and I went out to dinner at a nearby bar and we struck up a conversation with a black, cheerful guy. At some point, he took out a business card and it turned out that he works at Google. When I told him about my case, he said – don’t be nervous now you are in good hands, you have a sponsor, call me tomorrow and we will discuss the next steps.

Miracle! Or is it some kind of sign? What is another sponsor?

When I wrote to him the next day, as you might expect, he sent me the standard recruitment information from Google and said that he would be happy to celebrate success with me (if successful), but now he can’t help. Such a gentleman, it’s still funny when I remember.

The interview was scheduled for Monday. The day before, it was a sunny March day, I decided to take a break – I walked around Brooklyn, ate ice cream, bought a couple of T-shirts. After lunch I returned home. It was starting to get dark, and there was a party going on in the bar by the house. As soon as I entered the entrance, a shootout began, where my neighbor was shot and someone was wounded. The shooters got into cars and the chase began.

That night I didn’t manage to rest and sleep, sirens and screams outside the windows, two noisy helicopters hung at a low altitude. At about three o’clock in the morning, I threw off my earplugs and trudged to the refrigerator to eat mint ice cream with a tablespoon. So much preparation and now everything can break down due to the fact that I just can’t sleep.

I stood in what my mother gave birth in the living room flooded with light from the next house in front of large windows and looked at the departing train, I understood that I had done my best, but this did not guarantee me good luck. Everything is the will of God, and tomorrow we must accept what will be, with gratitude, and move on. Whatever happened. And if I have to succeed, then I will not be prevented by any problems with the Internet, or fucking helicopters, or gaps in my training. And after many years, I fell on the wooden floor and prayed hard for a long time.

Thinking what else I could do, I wandered off to make myself a background for a virtual call, but in the morning I still passed out so I almost overslept the beginning.

A week of silence followed the interview. For every phone call and email, my heart began to flutter, but there was still no news, in the meantime, I was in full swing preparing for Amazon and Facebook. This time I was already not so nervous, because I knew what to expect.

These days I did a poll on Blind to find out how many attempts it took on average for participants to get into FAANG. It turned out that one third of the respondents got there already after 9attempts! In Google, 1 out of 200 applicants gets a full interview cycle, and 1 out of 5 passes this interview with a positive result.

With Facebook, my mistake was that I did not work with a coach specifically for Facebook, as I was told that Facebook is a simplified version of the Google interview, but this is not true at least for the TPM role, which, unlike Google, contains also features Product Owner. In a systems design session, I was asked to build a food delivery system. After defining the requirements, I began to paint a high-level architecture, and I was asked to describe how I would prioritize the requirements and what kind of UI the application would have. I quickly responded and started to continue talking about the technical components, but from the follow-up questions, I realized that the interviewer wanted more information about the product, which I was not quite ready to answer. As a result, I did not pass the interview, but the impressions from FB were very positive.

The Amazon interview was a little different. First, I was asked to write an essay on one of two standard topics. I chose the topic – “what is the most innovative thing I have done in my life.” I spent about 15 hours writing two drafts and reading all sorts of tips on how to do it right.

Interviews were chaotic, if on Google and Facebook I had 5-10 minutes between sessions for biological needs, then with Amazon the previous interviewer went beyond his hour and the next interviewer had to wait and listen to us. And so non-stop.

In a systems design session at Amazon, I was asked to build a security system for elevators in buildings. An interesting task, I have not seen such examples in the courses that I took. As a result, we had an hour-long discussion, in which I drew this diagram. The interviewer seemed to be very pleased.

An interesting insight that I made for myself was that it is better not to talk about agile or in general about a specific management methodology. It was evident that in all three companies adherence to some fixed methodology was seen more as a limitation than a plus. In banks, by the way, it was the opposite, there were questions about the knowledge of Scrum and SAFe.

It’s been 10 days since the Google interview, I felt like I was going crazy, I was demotivated to stay at my current job, and I couldn’t understand what Google’s long silence meant.

I was completely burned out, had lunch, and then could not remember if I ate at all, not to mention the fact that I absolutely did not remember what exactly I ate. On the emotional plane, I also became like a robot, and it was not easy to get out of this state.

In the afternoon I got a call from an unfamiliar number – a recruiter from Google called and slowly informed me that I had received positive reviews and she was preparing my case for the recruitment committee.

Hurray!!! I screamed and jumped around the apartment with happiness! I couldn’t believe I made it!

She asked me for a few contacts inside and outside of Google who to contact to get feedback on me, which should have solidified my case for the committee.

It was no less a miracle to find out that I also went to Amazon, but I was not going to work with them because there were many posts about their toxic culture and bad attitude towards employees. Amazon was important to me in order to have a competitive offer that would allow me to negotiate a better salary with Google.

I bought tickets to Mexico to relax and celebrate, and this could have been the point of my story, but it wasn’t. Three more interesting months of negotiations and additional interviews were waiting for me!

After the approval of the committee, I was assigned the fourth level. I did not quite understand what this meant and started the so-called team-matching calls. That is, after passing the interview, I got into the list of approximately 40 program managers who were interviewed, who met with different teams on Google, and if both parties liked each other, then the applicant was already made an official offer. Such is the Google Tinder, where some candidates could hang like that for up to a year.

The first two calls were with the hardware teams in the data center. It was a nightmare! The last thing I wanted to do in my life was to do this. And plus you had to move to rainy Seattle! At some point, I thought that it’s not so bad for me to work in the current company …

After a few calls, I did find an interesting team working in Silicon Valley. Hooray, there is a coincidence!

A recruiter called me and named the range that Google is willing to pay. Compensation there is determined by three components – a base salary with an annual bonus, company shares and a bonus when signing a contract. To be honest, the offer I was given was far from the numbers I was dreaming of at levels.fyi, and I turned to one of my coaches for advice. The coach advised me to apply to one company that (attention!) deals only with helping candidates in the FAANGMULA company with salary negotiations.

I left a request on the site and already in the morning of the next day I had a real “interrogation” to find out all the details of my relationship with Google and Amazon recruiters. Then they sent me four files with a description of the strategy and verbatim scripts of negotiations. After they called me and checked how I learned them and even helped to correct the speed of phrases and focus.

Small fragment of scripts:

Although Google is known for being very reluctant to revise the assigned levels, thanks to this company I managed to do this. It saved me a couple of years of my career and allowed me to get a much higher salary. It is interesting that the head of the team with which we chose each other became my great lawyer. For her, this meant that if I passed the 5th level, I would no longer be able to work with her, since her role was only for the 4th level. Thank her very much for this! It was unexpected and confirmed my positive expectations of Google culture.

It took two more interviews, but it wasn’t that difficult, the conversation was free-flowing, where I talked about my previous projects. No complex behavioral or technical issues.

Then new team-matching calls started. There were fewer interested teams, and then I didn’t like them, then I didn’t like them. A month has passed. There are no matches with the teams and no new calls either. Will they still AT ALL??

When will this all end?!

Whistling in ears again. I started to get nervous.

Days have passed, several teams have appeared. One in New York and one in Mountain View California, both liked me. The choice is not easy.

On the one hand, I have already settled down in NY, and I like it, on the other hand, this is a chance to live in Silicon Valley and, it seems, this is the best place for a career. When if not now!? Moreover, the team from the Valley was undergoing a transformation, in which I usually feel comfortable, and in general they were engaged in game consoles, which, after fintech and government services with ironed collars, generally seemed like a fairy tale.