Google Reviews

Pros

Great team, culture, rewarding work, and led to many great opportunities afterwards either internally or externally

Cons

nothing I can think of

Pros

* If you're a software engineer, you're among the kings of the hill at Google. It's an engineer-driven company without a doubt (that *is* changing, but it's still very engineer-focused). * The perks are amazing. Yes, free breakfast, lunch, an dinner every weekday. Aaaaaamazing holiday parties (at Waldorf Astoria, NY Public Library, MoMA, etc.); overnight ski trips to Vermont; overnight nature trips to the Poconos in...

Cons

* It *is* becoming larger, and with it comes growing pains: bureaucracy, slow to respond to market threats, bloated teams, cross-divisional tension (though nothing remotely approaching that of Microsoft's internal tension). * The quality of the engineers is possibly dropping, but possibly not. It's hard to get real metrics, because as the absolute number of people grows, naturally the number of bad apples grows; as a...

Advice to Management

Keep the focus on the user. Everything else will follow.

Pros

You can't find a more well-regarded company that actually deserves the hype it gets. You'll work on cutting edge projects / solve important issues that impact your community and the world You'll meet interesting people who are your colleagues, managers, and senior management. You'll open the paper and see your company in the news almost every day, and read about projects you're working on, which is a cool thing...

Cons

I live in SF so the commute can take between 1.5 hours to 1.75 hours each way on the shuttle - sometimes 2 hours each way on a busy day or rainy day. That means being on the bus for 3-4 hours PER DAY. It's a wired bus though which means you can work on the way to Mountain View. But it can feel brutal. Your first year or two are really important in terms of your career at Google and they affect how you're viewed, and...

Advice to Management

Keep on NOT micromanaging - that is a huge benefit to Google. Most of us have a huge workload and we work in spikes and not chained to our desks, and we care deeply about producing, and we produce a lot. We can do that because you respect us enough to give us some freedom in how we do our jobs.

Pros

Excellent stock & bonus, if you live on your salary you'll be making some serious bank towards retirement.

Cons

Competition both to get in and to get promoted is severe and steep. You'll be making slow progress, if any, towards goals of advancement in title and responsibilities.

Pros

Great studio and everything good about google

Cons

typical big company and the size of it

Pros

Great overall benefits and perks, you will work with a lot of smart people and get hands-on experience with a lot of new technologies, get the chance to work remotely across globally.

Cons

Management is kind loose in recent years, no clear direction. Some team may be doing a lot of toils, you may eventually burn out. Internal team transferring sometime are not that easy.

Pros

- The culture feels 100 years ahead of everywhere else and it's constantly evolving. - Management works for you and with you, not against you or above you. - Everyone is approachable and friendly. - 20% time. - Working towards building products literally for everyone. - Free benefits such as gym and food. - You'll never get bored. - If somehow you're not having a great time, management will help you find something...

Cons

- The pace of work can be a bit slow at times. - Tech debt feels high at times.

Advice to Management

- Keep evolving. - Stay transparent. - Always be googley.

Pros

Very good salary. I recommend it.

Cons

Not a lot of benefits I'm afraid.