You are part of the data initiative team from a reputable start up company. The company is being ambitious to implement data-driven decision making in all division, including the Human Resource (HR) Department. The department often collecting feedback and review via group discussion that is being held quarterly. However, some employee may don’t want to share all information directly to HR department for several reason, such as being afraid of jduged by other or any personal reasons. To overcome this problem, the HR also want to collect feedback and review from external resource. The HR decided to collect and analyze review from an online job seeker website where former and current employee can give review and rating to the company. To transform the data into informative insight, the HR want our help to analyze is there any topic or context that is being written on the website.
The following chunk is the library that you can use to do text analysis and topic modeling.
# Data Wrangling
library(dplyr)
library(lubridate)
library(stringr)
library(tidyr)
# Text Analysis
library(tidytext)
library(textclean)
library(SnowballC)
library(hunspell)
# Topic Modeling
library(textmineR)
# Data Visualization
library(ggplot2)
library(ggwordcloud)
library(scales)
# Extra Function
source("workshop-topic-model/extra_function.R")
options(scipen = 999)You can import the data by reading the workplace_review.csv and save them as df_review. You can check the data structure using glimpse().
df_review <- read.csv("workplace_review.csv")glimpse(df_review)## Rows: 3,468
## Columns: 7
## $ location <chr> "", "Mountain View, CA", "New York, NY", "Mountain View, ...
## $ date <chr> "Dec 11, 2018", "Jun 21, 2013", "May 10, 2014", "Feb 8, 2...
## $ status <chr> "Current Employee ", "Former Employee ", "Current Employe...
## $ job_title <chr> " Anonymous Employee", " Program Manager", " Software Eng...
## $ summary <chr> "Best Company to work for", "Moving at the speed of light...
## $ overall <int> 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 3, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 4, 4, ...
## $ review <chr> "Bureaucracy is slowing things down", "1) Work/life balan...Data Description:
Try to transform the data type of the date column. You can also try to create a new column named review_day, review_month, and review_year that respectively contain information about day of the week, month , and year of the review.
head(df_review$date, 10)## [1] "Dec 11, 2018" "Jun 21, 2013" "May 10, 2014" "Feb 8, 2015" "Dec 9, 2018"
## [6] "Dec 6, 2018" "Nov 29, 2018" "Dec 2, 2018" "Dec 1, 2018" "Nov 30, 2018"#ubah format char menjadi date
class(ymd(df_review$date))## [1] "Date"df_review$date <- mdy(df_review$date)head(df_review$date, 10)## [1] "2018-12-11" "2013-06-21" "2014-05-10" "2015-02-08" "2018-12-09"
## [6] "2018-12-06" "2018-11-29" "2018-12-02" "2018-12-01" "2018-11-30"df_review <- df_review %>%
mutate(
date = ymd(date), # mengubah character menjadi date
review_month = month(date, label = T), # mengambil nama bulan
review_year = year(date), # mengambil tahun
review_day = wday(date, label = T) # mengambil nama hari
)Check the earliest and the latest date using the range() function to the date column.
range(df_review$date)## [1] "2008-02-14" "2018-12-11"Some review are too old and is not relevant anymore to the current condition. We will only collect review from 2015 and later.
new_data <- df_review %>%
filter( review_year >= 2015 )You may want to check how many of the review come from current employee and how many come from former employee. Use count() to count the number of each employee status in the data. Describe your finding.
df_review %>%
count(status,
name = "Frequency")keterangan : total jumlah karyawan sekarang dan mantan karyawan adalah 3468 orang dengan rincian Karyawan sekarang(current employee) sebanyak 2058 orang dan mantan karyawan(former employee) sebanyak 1410 orang
First you may want to check the top 10 job title that give the most review on the website. This may give us insight at which employee that complain the most. Use count() to count the number of each job title in the data and then sort the data by usign arrange() and desc() to get descending sort (from small to big number). Describe your finding.
job_title_count <- df_review %>%
count(job_title,
name = "Frequency")head(job_title_count,10)arrange(job_title_count, Frequency, desc(Frequency))Keterangan : dari 10 daftar pekerjaan diatas, dapat diketahui jumlah karyawan dari masing2 bidang pekerjaan yang memberi ulasan di web. jumlah yang memberikan ulasan sudah diurutkan dari yang terkecil hingga yang terbesar. untuk jumlah terkecil adalah 1 orang, yang terbanyak memberikan ulasan adalah karyawan di bidang software engineer sebanyak 278 orang
In this part you can start doing text cleansing from the review column. The method and order of the cleansing process is up to you. General text cleansing process include:
new_text <- new_datanew_text$review %>%
tolower() %>%
str_remove_all(pattern = "\"") %>% #remove certain char
str_remove_all(pattern = "\n") %>%
replace_hash() %>%
str_replace_all(pattern = "@.*? |@.*?[:punct:]", replacement = " ") %>% #remove mention
replace_url() %>%
str_replace_all(pattern = "don t", replacement = "do not") %>% #remove contraction
str_replace_all(pattern = "i m", replacement = "I am") %>%
str_replace_all(pattern = "doesn t", replacement = "does not") %>%
replace_contraction() %>%
str_replace_all(pattern = "[:punctuation:]", replacement = " ") %>% #remove all punctuations
str_remove_all(pattern = "[:digit:]") %>% #remove all numbers
str_trim() %>% #menghapus spasi sebelum kata di kalimat awal dan spasi diakhir kata
str_squish() #menghapus spasi yang di tengah kalimat/ double space## [1] "bureaucracy is slowing things down"
## [2] "i live in sf so the commute can take between hours to hours each way on the shuttle sometimes hours each way on a busy day or rainy day that means being on the bus for hours per day it is 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 are viewed and your ability to be promoted you should always ask to work on high profile projects if you do not get them do not expect to get high ratings or get promoted always volunteer for cross functional group work for maximum exposure and then work hard at those things you will likely work on something that no one will explain to you and it will take you at least a year to be comfortable doing what you are working on even if you are super quick at learning no one has time to train you or teach you what you are doing which is kind of hard after two or three years people you started out with at google start to get promoted if you are not one of them you will wonder why and how it happened and that process is somewhat political and not always clear it is a big company now and super political so do not be naive expect some people to be catty some people to be territorial and be prepared to be mentally tough do not let people see your vulnerableness it is a darwinistic culture with a huge dose of something idealism on top which can fool you into thinking that people are easygoing they are not they are driven if you are not driven you are not going to fit in when you start at google it seems like peer reviews are super important they are but they are the sprinkles on the fro yo the important thing is that your direct manager knows your work likes your work and likes you and then you can get promoted if your boss does not like you all the positive peer reviews in the world will not help you make sure you know what your boss wants and give it to them you will have weekly one on ones and make sure you are addressing your performance at each one asking if they have questions how you can improve can you work on cross functional projects etc it is really hard to find work life balance at google the workload is huge i hardly have time to work out the commute is brutal my family sometimes needs more from me and i can not give it I am still trying to find the balance i think i need more down time than most people so i have a hard time being structured every day to fit all the things i want into my day so a lot of things slip like working out"
## [3] "size matters engineers are a bit disconnected with customers"
## [4] "there is lower compensation than expected"
## [5] "wide variety in experience based on team"
## [6] "long hours far locations a lot of work"
## [7] "really no down sides that i saw"
## [8] "pressure is there for some parts"
## [9] "high clerical work in the sane record"
## [10] "easy to get lost as it is such a big company"
## [11] "there is sometimes too wide a variety of things you can work on"
## [12] "becoming highly bureaucratic growing political back stabbing especially at the senior management levels"
## [13] "you have to work hard"
## [14] "big and beurocratic lots of legacy systems moves slowly"
## [15] "set hours for breakfast lunch dinner"
## [16] "employee will require muti tasking to complete the job"
## [17] "growing pains as google has gone from ~k to ~k fte during my tenure processes have mostly scaled but internal trust and culture have not"
## [18] "everyone is eager to succeed which can lead to a pretty competitive environment"
## [19] "difficult to advance depending on which projects you are contributing to"
## [20] "company has become way too vertical performance evaluations are no longer representative and have arbitrary unwritten rules that contradict written rules"
## [21] "great place to work finace is backend though its a tech company first"
## [22] "google wants hour weeks if you have a iq google is okay with hour weeks otherwise hour weeks are required to keep your job work is mind numbingly boring e g sustaining software written years ago mostly culture is declining quickly too many people are competing for your job so google has cs phds doing plumbing work"
## [23] "being challanged everyday having no life"
## [24] "long hours can be unreasonable"
## [25] "very few work sometimes monotonous"
## [26] "difficult to promote in google"
## [27] "no cons at this point"
## [28] "there is the danger of getting too familiar and comfortable with the internal tooling that you lose touch with the tools trends of greater software engineering community it is like a bubble"
## [29] "company is so large that it can be hard to make any vertical movement"
## [30] "expensive city hard to switch teams"
## [31] "i cannot think of anything wrong at google"
## [32] "nothing bad to say loved this place"
## [33] "no new stock award for most first year employees may take up to two years contributions of new employees undervalued expect a bad review score your first performance cycle regardless of actual performance"
## [34] "zero work life balance esp in on east coast disorganized teams focus on making hires and meeting numbers and goals as opposed to the bigger picture very junior staff very robotic read off scripts or sound disingenuous lack of diversity"
## [35] "bad management very political and turning into a bureaucratic culture"
## [36] "busy stressful sometimes disorganized hectic"
## [37] "i think the culture has lost its way it is a shame"
## [38] "crowded work environment micro management"
## [39] "directors will never understand what you do on a daily basis in this role your performance review is not based on a scale but instead it ends up being based on a pass fail opinion a poor director admin fit means that the admin will suffer admins have to step up to offer emotional career support for each other because there is not an internal management system in place specifically for them you will need to give every day because is never enough"
## [40] "great amount of work that is it"
## [41] "big company less impact of daily work"
## [42] "standard growing pains with an expanding product portfolio"
## [43] "not enough snacks and a bit stress ful"
## [44] "becoming more like an old fashioned company"
## [45] "hard to make impact as one of people"
## [46] "big company you get lost fast paced and very competitive imposter syndrome is real"
## [47] "disingenuous performance review and calibration process promotion process driving decision"
## [48] "nothing to say about this"
## [49] "large company process can be bureaucratic"
## [50] "things progress slowly compared to startups other companies that believe in move fast break things"
## [51] "large corporation standardization spectrum of roles"
## [52] "have some improvements to make"
## [53] "easy to feel like a cog in the wheel ad driven business model internal mobility can be difficult"
## [54] "working on multiple projects can be distracting but it is a company need"
## [55] "super high stress depending on the team and role nosedive on faith in executive leadership since sundar pichai ruth porat and kent walker started driving the company not living up to google values guaranteed product thrash on virtually everything not already making serious revenue general lack of empathy among leaders and in what is valued in people managers"
## [56] "flat org hard to grow"
## [57] "office is too comfortable to work for"
## [58] "things move a little bit slow"
## [59] "standard massive company bureaucracy stuff golden handcuffs a lot of people tend to end up in positions they are overqualified for and uninterested in except for the money of course silicon valley traffic and expenses are not for everyone much easier if you are young and single"
## [60] "departments have poor communication i e creative team and marketing team do not connect well"
## [61] "is ran by a pack of years old kids"
## [62] "it is getting too big"
## [63] "team culture could be more fun and casual too big and bloated in some ways a lot of internal competition though that is good in many ways"
## [64] "tough environment difficult process hard work"
## [65] "absolutely no cons to report"
## [66] "long working hours xfn challenges many teams trying to solve the same problem causes waste"
## [67] "none really other than constant work that we never seem to have enough time to complete"
## [68] "high housing price heavy work load"
## [69] "keeping job title and pay correct"
## [70] "growth is slow and complicated"
## [71] "it can be very large and bureaucratic at times"
## [72] "sometimes people decided to use bing rather than google which made me shed quite more than just a few fragile teardrops"
## [73] "takes a long time to get things done"
## [74] "it is getting too big and crowded"
## [75] "i dont think there is any cons"
## [76] "exhausting low pay long commute grunt work"
## [77] "very political environment too many layers communication overheads"
## [78] "spend more time sending emails than doing actual work"
## [79] "it is a performance culture so be prepared to work hard and smart"
## [80] "there is currently no cons at google"
## [81] "crowded workspace very long dining hall line"
## [82] "high living cost of the area"
## [83] "no real complaints i wish i could have stayed"
## [84] "no such that i noticed"
## [85] "little focus on retention career development outside of one s org or building transferrable skills the larger the company grows the more issues with defined roles silos tend to manifest"
## [86] "fast paced and highly demanding"
## [87] "sometimes interns were not given enough of an opinion"
## [88] "developers get too theoretical so we end up not delivering anything"
## [89] "hard to grow outside mountain view"
## [90] "trying something new with google and sunder pichai"
## [91] "large corporation very different businesses original google culture getting lost"
## [92] "corporate hierarchy slow moving hr growth boundaries that disregard exceptional performance motivation"
## [93] "the company culture is like a millennial personified by lunch on the first day i was already annoyed by the exceedingly in your face liberal political culture evals and promotions are based on the importance of your project and your ability to kiss up to peers lunches are mediocre at mtv and everyone there is a long wait during typical lunch hours the hiring process results in a more consistent level of hires but despite their claims the average hire at a k or k+ populous company are at best bs rather than as nobody cares to do actual work and the open floorplans means you will have to tune out personal non work related chatter all day"
## [94] "working with execs requires long demanding hours to be expected"
## [95] "some stress but will reomove it"
## [96] "hardcore mentality long hours competitive culture"
## [97] "siloed environment at times"
## [98] "i have not find any issues"
## [99] "i was hired through an agency as a contract employee for days then offered a full time position this position lasted all of days then i was let go due to financial problems at the company to make matters worse i was told that i would receive severance on the forms i asked to sign the company has reneged on that i witnessed a parade of hiring firing due to the lack of any business acumen very poor communication and no evidence of a positive culture"
## [100] "i guess some of the typical big company stuff like it sometimes taking longer for a project to complete"
## [101] "no cons as such for this company"
## [102] "big companies have a larger overhead of process than small ones"
## [103] "could be hard to advance in the company"
## [104] "onboarding is a very steep learning curve due to all the jargon internal tools internal software tools languages and new processes to learn all the home grown stuff makes it hard to keep up with what the rest of the world is doing bottom up culture promotes innovation but lack of enforced decision making can make things messy internally e g why google has so many chat apps engineers are the heart of the company and as such can be highly entitled typical tech industry struggles with building a diverse workforce everything you need is provided for so it is easy to spend your entire life at work painful promo process hard to switch career ladders internally just slightly cultish"
## [105] "i can not think of any"
## [106] "potential to drink the koolaid and loose sight of some realities"
## [107] "boring projects but it is fine"
## [108] "the location of their office isnâ\200\231t my favorite"
## [109] "large corporation with hard upward mobility"
## [110] "performance review process is very lengthy and in depth"
## [111] "nothing that i know of i like working here"
## [112] "the work is very hard"
## [113] "stressful atmosphere due to high level of competition"
## [114] "nothing to say against the job"
## [115] "you need to be very careful"
## [116] "variance in experience depending on which team you will be joining engineering heavy"
## [117] "not that i know of"
## [118] "this playstore production management team are some of the most pompous arrogant juvenile punks i have ever had the misfortune of coming across my manager wanted to know when things were not getting done or were going wrong but when i approached him he would be defensive accusing openly blaming and quite snotty and offensive this is not the hallmark of anyone cut out to manager other people when approaching him with concerns or mistakes he would twist and turn things around on me that i was blaming other people and i thought are you for real the female manager was one of the most pompous peacocks that could of used a little ego balancing and reality check i have news for you you cannot brow beat lecture and force feed your sloppy training program and then get on your high horse and lecture people that they are not meeting your expectations your training program was like trying to follow an untied off balloon let go in a room this team is scatterbrained and cocky and comes across as hair on fire them gets snippy when things go wrong then you will get a email that says oh now i see how this was confusing my bad well the damage was already done here s a clue treat your contractors like the qualified professionals who have brains skills and common sense that you fail to acknowledge or bother to allow an ounce of autonomy to prove themselves without your nitpicking micromanaging"
## [119] "politics at upper levels okrs are outdated and machiavellian"
## [120] "income is limited due to nature of how stores are managed sales associates might make k gross minus taxes benefits etc income of about k managers paid salary but still sell and always have the best opportunity for walk in customers store manager make k minimum great job for someone who just wants to earn a mediocre living young person with not many responsibilities"
## [121] "nothing at this time may be in future"
## [122] "good food good salary respect"
## [123] "all of the internal tools make what you have learned less relevant if you want to leave"
## [124] "i cannot think of any downsides"
## [125] "nothing really the job was amazing"
## [126] "huge company with lots of process red tape easy to feel lost in a large company like this one"
## [127] "big company hard to move functions"
## [128] "family life suffers because of time commitment"
## [129] "not many i can think"
## [130] "it will be very hard to work for a different company after google"
## [131] "big company not as big of an impact"
## [132] "not super easy to pick a great team when you start"
## [133] "too much info to deal with"
## [134] "there is a lot if work to do"
## [135] "too much nih syndrome lots of great work happening outside of google"
## [136] "getting too large to operate effectively"
## [137] "very big so it is sometimes hard to navigate the relationships"
## [138] "too many work and getting harder to be promoted"
## [139] "large campus size high stress environment extraneous performance review metrics"
## [140] "sometimes great minds can clash and the clashing results in people not cooperating with one another artificial intelligence is a new science and there is no one way of doing things but there are so many ways as we develop the product we are learning about it as well progress can be incremental rather than leap and bound"
## [141] "feels more like an established company"
## [142] "bad no no bad things nice place"
## [143] "lots and lots of work"
## [144] "the datacenter never has enough tools you feel completely alone and it seems that you should not ask questions once you are let loose i broke down crying a few times on the datacenter floor because i could not find any answers or documentation from their intranet or from other employees they want a phd level of intelligence to work for $ hr atlanta is the neglected redheaded stepchild data center the security staff is imbecilic but a few became good friends can be too political but if you do not discuss politics anywhere or if you are smart enough to be engage in a neutral manner or pretend to side with the correct politics you will be alright"
## [145] "large company hard to be recognized"
## [146] "your mileage may very some departments donâ\200\231t promote their employees hire them at lower levels than any other department and pay them less than their previous jobs they can get away with it because itâ\200\231s â\200œgoogleâ\200\235 luckily google is very transparent so i can plainly see that this is happening in our yearly internal survey poor marks all around in career developement and pay why doesnâ\200\231t anyone in hr do anything about it i have no clue"
## [147] "x x x x x"
## [148] "high working hour not work life balance"
## [149] "nothing really it is a little more corporate than they let on"
## [150] "workplace politics and power struggles"
## [151] "executive teams are unable to make decisions and execute fast"
## [152] "of the employees are extremely rude unless you have a good position they make rude remarks and do not have any manners"
## [153] "can feel like a small cog in a big machine"
## [154] "it is grown from a quirky small company to a corporat ish behemoth"
## [155] "happy positive never late have fun customer always first"
## [156] "too many people may be hard to get promoted over years"
## [157] "i hear from people around the company that google proper is great and that cloud is not representative of the true google work experience either way cloud is pretty terrible extremely hierarchical micromanagement culture that treats people with a lot of disrespect no trust in people leadership by fear leadership team is half competent other half incompetent not unusual for people to be thrown under the bus by managers"
## [158] "demanding hours inconsistent management of matters"
## [159] "too rigid a promotion path with arbitrary levels lacks meritocracy much more about self promotion"
## [160] "slow progress politics development velocity"
## [161] "fluid ever changing projects and team"
## [162] "no con about position or job"
## [163] "work is work not fun"
## [164] "poor management with no people s skills"
## [165] "commute is tough constantly in a â\200œperformance managementâ\200\235 mindset"
## [166] "extremely competitive culture work is never ending"
## [167] "i felt my opinion was not considered very strongly amongst management i suppose this could be expected"
## [168] "this job is absolutely soul crushing by a year in the benefits do not matter anymore this is the worst job that exists at google absolutely no work life balance the targets are becoming outrageous many people cry in private there seems to be little hope of ever getting promoted management is so beyond out of touch with the day to day grind of this brutal job"
## [169] "apparently they cant get crabby patties for lunch"
## [170] "more than necessary re orgs complete lack of work life balance if desire to make impact"
## [171] "i do not have any to mention"
## [172] "less base salary in the early career years"
## [173] "too many smart people under utilized"
## [174] "becoming a large company in terms of blockers for innovation"
## [175] "bureaucratic engineers do not have visibility on priority"
## [176] "no cons that i can think of"
## [177] "i do get side tracked alot"
## [178] "the bay area is very expensive especially for educators"
## [179] "there are no cons come on I amean it is google"
## [180] "lots of re structuring the team the department the organization within google that you are working with might get shuffled around quite frequently to serve shifting priorities within the organization or the company"
## [181] "no guarantee of a job after months"
## [182] "things can move slowly at times people sometimes work on wrong things to optimize for promotion committees"
## [183] "long hours and the workload can be tough if you are not prepared for it"
## [184] "there is a year contract limit and if you would like to come back you have to wait at least months to return"
## [185] "projects may abruptly change directions or be cancelled perf reviews do not reward certain needed and more mundane functions and promote sometimes more hacky or bandaid solutions that show short term gains they can be reluctant to give more honest feedback in a timely manner their over promotion of their diversity efforts has created a suboptimal working environment with respect issues saying this as an employee categorized as diverse certain decisions seem more subjective particularly about individuals awarded with desirable research positions"
## [186] "culture can vary a lot from a team to another team"
## [187] "high growth rates have lead to some inefficient processes"
## [188] "i didnt have any cons love this place"
## [189] "work life balance is not great depending on the season"
## [190] "do not be evil is sometimes forgotten"
## [191] "constant reorganization creates confusion between departments"
## [192] "working out the kinks that come with exponential growth"
## [193] "lots of talented people means standing out can be harder"
## [194] "work hours is too much"
## [195] "walking fine line for promotions merciless weeding out slow growers bad for mothers in terms of life work balance spaces are crammed"
## [196] "lazy at time lack of communication"
## [197] "not open to african american input"
## [198] "very challenging you will feel like you live here"
## [199] "none at moment enjoying my work"
## [200] "too large to stand out"
## [201] "no remote work options given the consistent growth mode rough wlb"
## [202] "i do not know that there are any"
## [203] "it is a large organization with lots of internal politics and bureaucratic procedures"
## [204] "none that i can really think of"
## [205] "work life balance is hard to achive"
## [206] "bureaucracy in processes ranging from hiring to promo to transfers let people just do what they love have impact and get rewarded i have never seen another company spend so much time on these processes and yet have such a poor outcome"
## [207] "despite the workplace culture valuing work life balance the internal competition etc makes it difficult to pursue it"
## [208] "work load is extremely high work life balance is very low career progression is difficult even for high performers due to structure of performance reviews and promotions the company has changed significantly over the past decade not for the better"
## [209] "sometimes heavy to move given need for consensus and multiple overlapping decision centers very complex organization"
## [210] "liberals ruin all the joy in things"
## [211] "well its a large company"
## [212] "such a big company it was often hard to get things moving quickly"
## [213] "management priorities poorly trained people managers"
## [214] "large company and things generally move more slowly"
## [215] "lots of work sometimes you stay up late"
## [216] "getting big and easy to get lost"
## [217] "like every company has some bureaucracy but handles it well in the end rapid hiring pace is somewhat damaging the culture"
## [218] "not much complaint that i can think of"
## [219] "i was looking for better opportunity"
## [220] "google is slowly turning into a big corporate company as it grows"
## [221] "you must not get use to all the amenities they provide as a company"
## [222] "less freedom to explore new direction than academic research"
## [223] "burnout rate is high internal mobility can actually be pretty tough"
## [224] "too big of a company now"
## [225] "it is difficult to get promoted"
## [226] "i had to pee in bottles"
## [227] "i do not have any to be honest"
## [228] "there is not much which google can do to improve however there is always room for improvement"
## [229] "difficult to change jobs within the organization"
## [230] "google is a great company at a generic level if you are port of the business side advertisement and non technical mobility is low for you inexperienced middle managers all the great managers are or tiers above you so you will not be working with them also they take smart talented people and have them do a few things that means that you cannot release your creativity and unleash your full potential in reality even though it is advertised as a place where the sky is the limit"
## [231] "working long hours day in day out"
## [232] "no career path horrible work life balance need to work night and day to get promoted change manager too often to learn anything project changes too often to see any personal impact"
## [233] "life work balance can be hard"
## [234] "commuting is really hard in the bay area"
## [235] "none i can think of"
## [236] "not a lot of contact with managers"
## [237] "no cons this plae is great"
## [238] "unfortunately buses on site laundry and massages do not pay the bills google pays exceptionally well if you are on the engineering side of the company if not compensation hardly lives up to the hype example an individual started in an entry level role and was later moved into a position with much greater impact and significantly more responsibility within the same department a year and a half later that individual is still being paid at their entry level pay and classified as their entry level role despite a complete change of responsibilities scope of impact skill requirements etc"
## [239] "limited to specific role given the size things move slow lots of politics due to ambiguous boundary of roles projects"
## [240] "still tech bro y in it is own way very bad diversity and inclusion execution despite pr"
## [241] "nothing to bad to report from here"
## [242] "too big hence politics started kicking in"
## [243] "contracts it seen like all the employees who are not engineer are working on contract basis with a years limits to work for the company after the time is up they lay you off"
## [244] "like any large company hierarchies can impede on productivity"
## [245] "it may take a lot of time to ramp up after joining"
## [246] "not much that is about it"
## [247] "resourcing does not catch up google s grow"
## [248] "long hours and under extreme pressure"
## [249] "finding your way in a big company like google can be a challenge seek others out and work together to forge your career"
## [250] "can have some long hours"
## [251] "team members can be a bit antisocial"
## [252] "competitive among coworkers everyone s a genius"
## [253] "lots of work and really have to think outside the box"
## [254] "so far no might be too much information for any new comers~"
## [255] "many great product areas all of which are moving fast deciding can be difficult"
## [256] "not open as it used to be"
## [257] "performance reviews fishbowl effect smt ideology"
## [258] "low salary crazy deadlines too much stress"
## [259] "there is a big gap between vision and execution the google machine moves slowly the products are what can be built and launched after passing reviews"
## [260] "managing over achievers who are mismatched for the positions they are hired for"
## [261] "too much office politics and not much internal transparency"
## [262] "really expensive to live in palo alto"
## [263] "a little too pc for me"
## [264] "consensus driven decision making without social skills it will be hard to convince others to get on board with your great idea"
## [265] "political growing up committee promo process bad"
## [266] "everything bad bosses bad management"
## [267] "no cons everything is amazing"
## [268] "grown from scrappy startup to mega company more corporate than in the early days need to be more aware and cognizant of corporate structure hard to maintain healthy work life balance though it is encouraged"
## [269] "sooooo big that its hard to get anything done"
## [270] "small desk crowded offices non engaging managers no chance to advance"
## [271] "too many chefs depending on the org"
## [272] "i have no complaints yet"
## [273] "certain days there was little to no work"
## [274] "cons are basic in every multinational company if we find cons in every stage we can not see the future pros"
## [275] "large company your individual contribution may feel small getting a little ossified"
## [276] "you need to be ready to work with completely new technologies"
## [277] "toxic working environment recruiting management bullying hr does not care about employees rights no work life balance"
## [278] "feel ignored sometimes while at work"
## [279] "work can be high pressure and stressful at times"
## [280] "too much work sometimes the projects lost momentumâ\200\231s once a while so itâ\200\231s hard to focus sometimes thatâ\200\231s a real problem"
## [281] "jerks psychopathic narcissists cost of living in the bay area"
## [282] "does not have fully paid sabbaticals"
## [283] "they are spying on you and i figured out how i was immediately fired for saying i would expose it"
## [284] "no accountability many do not know what they do"
## [285] "people are nice the work environment is good and creative"
## [286] "you almost miss the past"
## [287] "too much work sometimes it is like hours a week"
## [288] "getting large so it is hard to make a big positive impact"
## [289] "lots of high turnover because some of the work left might become mundane for high achieving individuals easy to get bored"
## [290] "can get you too comfortable"
## [291] "nothing its google everything is great"
## [292] "many rewrites of the system not very interesting"
## [293] "bureaucracy common to large companies no more the startup like environment"
## [294] "large org bureaucracy issues makes cross department collaboration slow sometimes strict code reviews could sometimes slow down your work different set of tools to learn"
## [295] "as the company gets bigger things start to move a lot slower"
## [296] "it is a large company so not as nimble as a startup"
## [297] "google is not longer one company it is companies in one so it can be overwhelm and streessful"
## [298] "you end up working a lot"
## [299] "there were absolutely no cons"
## [300] "competition is fierce everyone is striving for limited promotions and visibility and that leads to people sabotaging or just not helping each other managers are powerful if yours does not want you to succeed they have a great deal of control over your future at the company switching teams is not as easy as advertised honestly applying to google from the outside is easier than trying to join a new team if your manager does not want you to switch teams you will not switch teams hr will not help you if a problematic situation happens they are there to protect the company while nice individuals they will happily tell you untrue information to help google and hurt you promotion culture is insidious everyone is trying to get promoted to make more money and the system around promotion encourages the wrong kinds of risk taking bold but useless new products hoarding credit blaming others for your mistakes if a product is at risk one or two people may be collectively blamed to save the whole i saw this happen multiple times a deadline is missed so an agreement is hatched the the problem was person x or person y that way person x or y can be fired and the others promoted because they made progress despite working with someone as lowly as x or y fakeness individuals at google are largely wonderful but the company encourages you to keep and tow the line smile be googley pretend we are all collaborating openly but in the back of everyone s mind is their career path their promo and how other people can be used to get them there or discarded if they do not a few pms and manager are very poor performers and their teams suffer as a result many pms and managers are wonderful it depends on the team you get which is largely a question of luck a culture which somewhat coddles through its benefits leads some to stay dependent and socially immature especially if joined right out of college"
## [301] "operations focused and slow decision making"
## [302] "total disrespect for employees lying"
## [303] "no one tells you that you have an expiration period when you join google when you hit a certain age tenure you are considered a greygler and if you are on unsupportive team you are treated as completely disposable the company does nothing to try to keep long term googlers employed and basically encourages you to quit by bullying you out of your job given bad review scores no manager support i left the company with such a bad taste in my mouth after giving a decade of my life to them it is so incredibly difficult to transfer"
## [304] "people are somewhat brainwashed across the board"
## [305] "none its a great company"
## [306] "experience and environment can vary significantly by function role and managers different classes of roles depends on where you are at the food chain more senior more politics talent development internal mobility and succession planning are rudimentary specialists more valued than generalists"
## [307] "googlers can be the most entitled people but if you choose your team wisely then it is not a big deal"
## [308] "focus limited career options management changes"
## [309] "hard to get promoted and move up"
## [310] "amount of travel and job organization"
## [311] "bad food living in the bay area is bad"
## [312] "not very fast from design to delivery"
## [313] "when they hire people they mostly downlevel and they are not transparent about this"
## [314] "not getting the work done and being stuck on something and making sure everything is up and going before the dead line"
## [315] "the company is big really big it has struggled for years to maintain a startup like environment and in many areas it succeeds but as the company scales there are more frequent instances of internal politics guiding decisions instead of pure technical merit"
## [316] "no negatives about working at google"
## [317] "the only cons are basically the coffee machine not working and competition with other companies like microsoft"
## [318] "lots of a type personalities"
## [319] "none what so ever do add"
## [320] "lack promotional oppurtunities from with in environment not condusive to high productivity"
## [321] "has grown very big definitely not a start up culture and has not been for a long time red tape and bureaucracy has ballooned everything takes forever to be approved or launched so many layers and chefs in the kitchen with ruth as the new cfo things are definitely in cost cutting mode compensation travel perks work projects etc definitely feels like you are just a cog in a machine nowadays"
## [322] "hard to advance or change projects"
## [323] "some managers are making boxes in the team"
## [324] "so big that it can be tough to advance"
## [325] "learn many things on your own"
## [326] "not enough space for work out"
## [327] "dd weird hours not enough work"
## [328] "they try to make the performance review process fair but a lot of it is still based on politics and favoritism your experience is almost entirely dependent on your manager and core team google is overall a great company to employees but your day to day experience is defined by your core team that being said the company is large and constantly hiring so if you hate your team you can probably move to a new one relatively quickly"
## [329] "some teams might not have good projects it is very important to select teams intelligently you will using technologies developed by google so less opportunity to built those technologies by yourself"
## [330] "things are slower than in a small startup"
## [331] "it is easy to get carried away and spend all your time working on cool stuff so make sure to spend some time for off work events"
## [332] "competitive hard to switch teams"
## [333] "you have to love bureaucracy to thrive if you do this is not a con if you do not you have been warned"
## [334] "job was some what challanging"
## [335] "some of the politics were bad"
## [336] "everyone watching what you do"
## [337] "hierarchical no real talent programs highly volatile peer skills"
## [338] "lost within a big company not as much innovation as one would think under paid over qualified scenarios"
## [339] "the work life balance is tough on larger projects however this is a part of running a business"
## [340] "low pay long hours no advancement"
## [341] "difficult to stand out even on a small team the compensation is rigidly structured based on levels and algorithms make sure you get a high offer coming in because it is impossible to renegotiate your salary even when you are a high performer"
## [342] "big company which causes google to move slowly compared to a start up"
## [343] "i can not think of any downside"
## [344] "beware do not factor equity into your package they remove this on a whim and you will be out thousands of dollars negotiate hard and remember that equity is not guaranteed"
## [345] "challenging to new people"
## [346] "too much of a commute for some people"
## [347] "many smart people always competitive"
## [348] "extremely slow to get promoted"
## [349] "you will be a drop in an ocean of many other very smart people which is not all that bad but if you are looking for front lines action you may be disappointed"
## [350] "peer pressure and hard to get promotion the promotion is very fair but takes a lot of time and effort to prepare"
## [351] "hard to leave the job"
## [352] "an incredible amount of work"
## [353] "a lot of work as well as deadlines"
## [354] "becoming a classic corporation slow to develop and long lead times to impact product ads business under attack by networks and newspapers not super easy to buy media agencies relationships are tricky"
## [355] "the job duty impact may not be that big"
## [356] "not really much there is always challenges that come with massive growth but google really puts its employees best interests at heart and still operates under the philosophy of putting the user first"
## [357] "promotions can be hard due to high competition"
## [358] "getting too big and unwieldy execution of strategy isnâ\200\231t getting better speed compared to competition such as amazon is still way too slow"
## [359] "it is a big company now so the impact of an individual contributor is very small relative to the company s output"
## [360] "work can be extremely stressful"
## [361] "fewer career opportunities in remote offices decisions are often made without ample context by senior management excessive meetings pretends to be an environment where everyone can speak freely but as we found with james damore that is not the case"
## [362] "comp impact"
## [363] "nothing i can think of"
## [364] "it has gotten political and very large there are over employees desitions take time and the company has gotten slower"
## [365] "it is already a very big company"
## [366] "some complex bonus difficult to get"
## [367] "company is getting bigger and bigger"
## [368] "google s general philosophy is to let a thousand flowers bloom often supporting multiple similar but disjointed projects also there is corporate bloat which can make decision making slow and painful"
## [369] "but it isnâ\200\231t that great"
## [370] "culture is shifting to be like any big company"
## [371] "you will feel like a small cog in a giant wheel"
## [372] "dont even try your luck"
## [373] "you will never move the needle you will live there everyone s secretly snobby"
## [374] "long hours high competition and hard work"
## [375] "big company now very political bureacratic"
## [376] "nothing bad to say here"
## [377] "culture changes with the arrival of new cfo more cost control cutting perks and benefits"
## [378] "management is a bit weak and direction can be limited sometimes it was hard to find something worth working on definitely more politics and paperwork than smaller companies google is really geared to years old folks in terms of it is culture being over makes you a rarity and a minority folks try to be inclusive but the environment focuses on youth"
## [379] "no obvious cons for now"
## [380] "time management was a concern and that is why i left"
## [381] "feels like a very large company and can be impersonal at times commuting to mountain view gets old quickly also many smart people will stay in roles they do not care for because they get to work at such an amazing overall company"
## [382] "too much comfort zone pay is surprisingly low"
## [383] "sometimes slow and stagnant not as exciting on a day to day basis as some smaller companies"
## [384] "none so far so good"
## [385] "goals are high and the work itself gets mundane there are side projects but at the end of the day your numbers are what really matters there are some managers that are not fit to lead people and instead should be project managers"
## [386] "nothing that comes to mind"
## [387] "every thing is good to work"
## [388] "mixed middle mgmt that deflates the capabilities of an exceptional eng org"
## [389] "lots of work but to be expected in this field"
## [390] "high expectations can cause some people anxiety"
## [391] "there is no cons here"
## [392] "hard to balance work and life"
## [393] "finding good opportunities and chances to build big enough projects to maintain a high rating and get a promotion"
## [394] "over worked because other people were slacking at the jobs they should have been doing"
## [395] "low pay in the office"
## [396] "well the name is not the best i think they should have picked something like yahoo search"
## [397] "share food for many people and you"
## [398] "always so much going on can be hard to focus sometimes even google compensation is difficult to live on in the bay area"
## [399] "can not think of any down sides"
## [400] "for me there are no downsides in working at google"
## [401] "you are working among the smartest in the industry it is hard to be a superstar the company is growing and diverging more from a startup environment"
## [402] "stressful always competing with peers compensation is not great without promotions"
## [403] "google has become a bit overly politicized communication over internal messaging often carries a disrespectful tone people pass this off as openness and transparency but this stuff could be communicated much more professionally blunt is ok rude is not all that said the culture issues are macro level within teams people are almost always respectful of each other quite a good environment"
## [404] "you have to catch up that level so work hard harder not everyone is googley"
## [405] "many distractions time management becomes difficult inclusiveness has become the primary focus distracting from the mission objectives"
## [406] "no work life balance here"
## [407] "it is good good good for everyone"
## [408] "if you are a tvc you will get overlooked"
## [409] "very little upside to get to the next level"
## [410] "could have been higher pay"
## [411] "far far far far far far"
## [412] "getting a little too big and internal mobility is not great too many process and rules in place too many people need to approve moving toward to a big corporate"
## [413] "a bit bureaucratic at times and sometimes it feels like you are working on a small piece of a much bigger puzzle"
## [414] "not growing very fast some projects are boring"
## [415] "just another number and not motivated"
## [416] "too many checks and balances"
## [417] "i can not find any cons"
## [418] "they make me work in a sweatshop"
## [419] "hard to keep the rhythm"
## [420] "bathrooms are dirty and smelly"
## [421] "work can be pretty hectic and stressful"
## [422] "the product development process can be bureaucratic and not transparent lots of repeated work across product areas last minute cancellation of product launches career growth comes from self marketing and putting in your time new ideas and hard work are not always rewarded leadership is not very inspiring"
## [423] "growing bureaucracy within marketing affecting speed of execution and decision making"
## [424] "pressure and pressure too many products also there are so many smart people who are software engineers during the work"
## [425] "lots of travel and team bonding events that do not take into account work life balance considerations"
## [426] "there are not much cons"
## [427] "the food is too good and I am getting fatter"
## [428] "political minded leaders discrimation at its highest levels"
## [429] "wrong project choices are bad for career"
## [430] "stressed small exposure low pay"
## [431] "google is a huge company and getting bigger all the time"
## [432] "process can get in the way a few of your co workers are a bit too entitled"
## [433] "not linked with software development"
## [434] "there is no cons like i said they go out of their way for each of their employees they pay for the training for every employee"
## [435] "no cons at all loves this place"
## [436] "no cons about google awesome place"
## [437] "project week can get stressful if you do not manage your time"
## [438] "only a contract position should be permanent"
## [439] "stressful if you let it be"
## [440] "very difficult to get promoted"
## [441] "no cons to speak of great experience"
## [442] "traffic is pretty bad some peer pressure"
## [443] "i loved working at google until i was unlucky enough to be transferred into a team with a bad people manager this manager ruled through confusion and an iron fist most likely because it was clear that the entire team was smarter than this manager i had no clear direction on my role or even what the outcome of the project the team was working on no matter how many times i asked i quickly became bored and frustrated and soon realized that i was not learning anything new and the transferrable skills i did bring were not being utilized that is when i started looking outside the company and here is what i found at my new job increase in salary more vacation time and increase in bonus target once i left i realized just how old fashioned google really is regarding management performance reviews and other hr related issues perf and calibration were abandoned by most companies years ago because it does not work in identifying the best performers but at google it defines you forever lastly during orientation the advice given to the nooglers is do not be a jerk it turns out that i have never worked at a company that had more jerks than google the egos and arrogance i encountered were off the charts it was easy to overlook when i liked what i was doing but once i was put under the bad manager my eyes were opened to the ugly reality of working at google"
## [444] "the company has gotten pretty big things feel more difficult to get done than they used to"
## [445] "management may change vision goals and organizational structure too frequently constant challenge of information overload can get a little uncomfortable if you are not a young party animal and politically liberal about everything"
## [446] "not a good place for career opportunities"
## [447] "there was not much room for growth not competitive enough with coworkers everyone got the same pay no matter how well they did"
## [448] "not many job opportunities at data centers"
## [449] "policies not much guidance for new employees"
## [450] "will never be able to tolerate a lesser work environment"
## [451] "gained a lot of weight"
## [452] "politics t+ promotion is difficult"
## [453] "not really anything bad to say"
## [454] "you may not see your own contribution"
## [455] "not much to speak of"
## [456] "some projects are slowed down a little by the size at which google operates generally the company is very transparent but there are some issues where you feel a bit left in the dark"
## [457] "it is really big and it is hard to forget that if you are in mountain view"
## [458] "working with cross organizational teams can be challenging dealing with conflicting styles and priorities"
## [459] "you will work too many hours nights weekends"
## [460] "can be hard to communicate across teams"
## [461] "do not expect to get paid if u slacking off"
## [462] "big company sometimes moves slowly"
## [463] "compensation is not great and also depends on the project you work on"
## [464] "commute slow promotion process less innovative attitude than previous days"
## [465] "long hours not much else"
## [466] "the company has too many employees"
## [467] "dated facilities googleplex difficult to find common workspaces and meeting rooms average paid vacation time long work hours"
## [468] "very few cons mainly it is getting a bit large so it is hard to have a sense of how you are contributing the promotion system is designed to be fair by having anonymous committees review written packets and you can self nominate but as a result the burden of proving you are promotable is extremely high you or your manager really have to be focused on promotion find and work on projects with the right demonstrable complexity and impact and have extensive written documentation and peer statements to validate the entire process can take years"
## [469] "challenging growth prospects for mid career professionals growing distance between c level and rank file"
## [470] "promotion process too arbitrary i got extremely good ratings but still was passed over for far too long promo still requires a launch with a right kind of metrics to impress the committee bay area too expensive I am leaving for seattle it is expensive too but it is possible to buy a condo house there without a ridiculous commute the past years of price doubling have prevented me from getting into the market even at my good software engineer salary priced out of market seriously the people who can bear to live near work are married google couples new grads from india or china living together crammed into crappy small houses or people who bought a place years ago before $k bedroom sq ft houses became $ m my skills were note utilized i could not get transferred onto the right teams where i could apply my ph d research"
## [471] "hierarchy is heavy and new hands are happy"
## [472] "there are no growth opportunities without getting a degree or certifications and you are not able to learn on the job transferring to a new job is extremely difficult"
## [473] "work life balance can be improved"
## [474] "corporate but that is to be expected"
## [475] "difficult to get in visa issues one of many"
## [476] "way too many cooks in the kitchen"
## [477] "too much ladder focussed feels like caste system at work people are respected only when you have achieved certain level and ladder recruiter will sell you you can change to any job type after spending year and i can assure you this is incorrect you will get stuck at job type promotions are very difficult but not impossible if you have right support system built around you"
## [478] "do you love ad sales that is of the work"
## [479] "a lot of unnecessary meetings projects are not challenging"
## [480] "typical big company issues have started creeping in deep reporting chains duplicative and competing projects across teams etc"
## [481] "i can not think of anything negative to say"
## [482] "it is getting too big a lot of process to get things done"
## [483] "very fast paced work environment"
## [484] "company is big there are significant internal organizational complexities lots of time can be spent on navigating through internal organizations management promotion logistics etc than actually building quality products"
## [485] "very large organization difficult to get promotions"
## [486] "it has a very competative atmosphere"
## [487] "if you are younger in your career want to get a ton of experience fast this is not the place for you"
## [488] "long hours and a long commute for me ended up being hard"
## [489] "vendors and contractors are treated worse and worse as time goes by where many are being moved off the campuses into buildings without google standard facilities like cafes or gyms"
## [490] "no cons about this position"
## [491] "not enough income"
## [492] "crazy hours but awesome work environment"
## [493] "long hours not much flexibility"
## [494] "too big and too hard to promote"
## [495] "extremely ambiguous work environment with little structure"
## [496] "mountainview is the best place to work at google other locations have less options for work"
## [497] "everyone outside of work will not stop asking about google all of the free food and dessert will make you fat co workers with a god complex everywhere they are all at the top of their games with little humility you will get lonely minimal chance for advancement everyone is on edge here no one can relax you will get lonely my co worker insulted a chinese co worker all the time and no one said a word which is indicative of the culture here long commute times on the over packed buses akin to taking two coach flights per day on the smallest airplane outdated equipment broken toilets everywhere broken bikes everywhere everything is broken knowing that this is the best job on that planet makes all of this even more depressing the google exceptionalism mentality permeates everything and everyone here low wages compared to competition i could go on and on"
## [498] "half of your salary is dedicated to your total employee compensation package so the free food is not really free your hopes of getting a promotion can change on a whim upper management is disconnected from the data center and have no clue or does not care about morale in this department many leads do not have a good work life balance"
## [499] "difficult to get work on interesting projects"
## [500] "bureaucracy is probably the number one complaint i hear from former employees former employees complain about the number of people that must now be consulted to get anything done"
## [501] "the intern program is very big business and tech interns do not see much of each other"
## [502] "there were long hours for this job"
## [503] "company has a lot of ladders which makes internal movement hard if not based in the us"
## [504] "pay is not suitable for surrounding area"
## [505] "very large company could be both good and bad"
## [506] "cost cutting feels apparent since ruth porat became cfo huge amount of employees can make it feel very impersonal and the experience you have is much more dependent on the team you join than anything to do with the company itself focus on performance reviews and promotions can be debilitating and cause people to focus on the wrong things senior management on my team was based on a different continent and felt disconnected"
## [507] "finding and retaining employees to serve the community of iv having a staff committed every single second minute and hour everday"
## [508] "company culture has grown very cynical lack of support for employees large and bureaucratic company too big to have much face to face interaction"
## [509] "internal mobility has become very challenging in the last + years employees arent trusted to be smart capable workers able to learn and stretch in new challenges roles proven experience is all that is respected now leaders now tend to just care about bottom line the end justifies the means"
## [510] "not the best pay i would say"
## [511] "everything becomes very routine so it gets boring after a while"
## [512] "peers are all very smart guys you are not easy to perform outstandingly as in other companies"
## [513] "a lot of hours on weekends"
## [514] "middle management is very political lot of bureaucracy so things get done slower than in previous years we have hired tons of folks from other tech companies into leadership positions and the work culture in google is no longer googly my advice to anyone who is thinking about joining google do not join for the perks benefits work culture join if you like the role you are being offered"
## [515] "lack of structure high product service concentration on digital media disparate competing priorities leading to lack of vision for certain groups"
## [516] "slow consensus building not enough fast decisions"
## [517] "there is a long commute from sf"
## [518] "the long hour shifts that i have to do but i will do my best to be helpful and positive to the kids"
## [519] "horrible commute from the city no creativity in role"
## [520] "demanding sometimes hard to find work life balance"
## [521] "meetings can be tire some"
## [522] "too big a company so each one gets to work on a small piece"
## [523] "i cant think of any cons"
## [524] "crowded most projects are not very interesting interesting projects have many people jumping on them and have usually been done to death"
## [525] "it is consensus driven culture which has its own pros but can sometimes feel slow to execute"
## [526] "google becomes more bureaucratic each year many levels of hierarchy for each product decision"
## [527] "the commute from san francisco to mountain view got to be too much"
## [528] "high paced not for everyone very tech focused"
## [529] "google always hire upper managers but do not hire enough people to do the work every time new management cones in they will do a reorg not efficient"
## [530] "for all the search monopoly money google has there are few projects that try to solve major world problems such as climate change a lot of colleagues do not seem to care about making the world a better place for the poor two tiered work environment with engineers high power full time employees on one side and most other employee types on the other google google red badge"
## [531] "being a large organization as it is today chances for advancement may not be as accessible as elsewhere although I have only been in this company full time and only have second hand knowledge about other work places"
## [532] "horrible mid management culture is getting diluted"
## [533] "so many work challenging work because it is huge network of the word to provide services"
## [534] "too much middle management middle management is also not necessarily qualified to manage technical groups there is immense pressure to be innovative and do impactful things but there is no willingness to take risks"
## [535] "not always alot of budget to work with"
## [536] "the company is really large at this point which you are starting to feel with processes etc"
## [537] "not much room for personal and professional growth"
## [538] "work on some of the older products can get exasperating since there is not much more to do and it feels like a waste of time"
## [539] "lots of weird corners of the company you can get stuck in there is a lot of engineers that find out the company classified them as something else what is the process to move why interview like an external candidate the dreaded ladder transfer need permissions that only a few can grant readability to commit code in a language depending on where you are in the company this will either be extremely easy or take months to do the simplest thing transfers require good performance reviews which means everyone moves along until they land in something which does not fit their skills at which point they can never leave there is no bad fit just bad employees look i know I am pretty clearly a single issue complainer but it really is awful if you fall through the cracks"
## [540] "terrible pay no benefits no chance for advancement vendor randstad hr is terrible most employees do not care about the work and are extremely lazy and unqualified free lunch is often inedible food poisoning is not uncommon favorites are picked in this office pod leads are not supervised by hr can be extremely unfair never available etc weirdest group of employees i have ever worked with"
## [541] "very competitive environment for career growth"
## [542] "commute is bad housing is bad full of tech people"
## [543] "difficult tasks and little directions"
## [544] "less chance to be innovative or impact change as company grows"
## [545] "horrible place to work at"
## [546] "google is too big anything you do does not make a big impact"
## [547] "can be competitive when choosing projects or going for promotion"
## [548] "took months to match me to a team unacceptable"
## [549] "i can not think of any"
## [550] "the development velocity is slow the compilation and starting server takes a long time each team works on a small bit thing just like any big company"
## [551] "working on projects at the scale google does is challenging and working with the existing infrastructure can be difficult"
## [552] "too much kale in the food why are they always trying to force kale on us they even managed to put it into the butter"
## [553] "do not practice what they preach where are women in leadership"
## [554] "it is a corp job not a start up"
## [555] "very dynamic india not on priority list"
## [556] "recommendation is the only war to clime up the ladder and get really high pay no appreciation for hard workers"
## [557] "large company so can be political promotion committees are really tough like getting a phd"
## [558] "a lot of red tape google is great place for software engineers not so great for data analysts"
## [559] "nothing to report at this time"
## [560] "the famous google culture is changing as they become bigger many people coming in from other big tech companies have changed the culture a lot"
## [561] "there are not really any cons"
## [562] "hard to have any meaningful impact at any scale"
## [563] "slow moving and too bureaucratic"
## [564] "google is large and so each product area product team have their own sub culture you might fit well in some and be a miserable in others there really is no good way to tell having brilliant co workers is a double edged sword this also implies a lot of competition for interesting projects and the bar for getting a promotion is so high that it is not uncommon for people to get promoted for over years or more"
## [565] "great not so great just ok"
## [566] "nothing just hectic sometimes overall good"
## [567] "in some orgs search and maps there are so many pms and a lot of politics promotion cycle on a schedule"
## [568] "a lot of layers of management"
## [569] "social justice work is included in your performance review some engineers spend up to of their time working on diversity and inclusion so they have essentially become social workers various orgs in the company have engaged in what can only be described as struggle sessions where employees admit that they are racist sexist and homophobic during meetings an internal mailing list tracks micro aggressions committed each week everyone is walking on egg shells managers have admitted to giving bad references to employees that make diversity and inclusion difficult which is not a very good precedent considering what a subjective criteria that is for wrecking someone s career"
## [570] "be prepared to gain weight"
## [571] "work life balance is not there company has become too lot of politics"
## [572] "no care for your personal development"
## [573] "long hours and lots of work"
## [574] "as with any large corporation sometimes it is hard to see the impact of your work and how specific your job responsibilities are often limit personal growth they do give you time and a percentage allocation towards independent study but it can get repetitive and no longer challenging some people enjoy just being there but i need to have constant challenge if you are non ivy a few of them can be condescending when you are new but as long as you show you are sharp and skilled they will not continue to look down on you"
## [575] "management bureaucracy too large company"
## [576] "intense pressure and competition in certain teams product plans change quickly some projects die before completion"
## [577] "as company has grown the employee experience is no longer consistent across groups as various organic sub cultures have inevitably formed as much as the company values down to earth and friendly ehthos some departments have become more corporate cold or cut throat culturally i would still recommend google to anyone but must make sure the group you are interviewing for is culturally a fit for you"
## [578] "nothing at all for know"
## [579] "lower salary relative to other companies"
## [580] "long lines for the food"
## [581] "google cloud has few real customers and wins deal by dropping price little real innovation and lots of politics the management has been a revolving door of promotion driven and warring fiefdoms for years they have mostly lost the apps business to microsoft office and the public cloud space to amazon and microsoft aside from a handful of faithful start ups that are almost all of their business also ageism and sexism is very real at google"
## [582] "no cons it is a great place"
## [583] "sometimes over expectations on individuals in the trasition"
## [584] "he takes your idea and want to be always the winer the big boss"
## [585] "more institutionalized hierarchy than I would like as expected for such a large company takes a while to launch something new"
## [586] "management performance evaluation work life balance if you are not mtv based finding career opportunities can be very limited"
## [587] "tough job sometimes higher up politics affects outcomes"
## [588] "not much to say loved my times there"
## [589] "no cons loved everything about this company"
## [590] "some of the original assets for the google suite were originally developed for the consumer and did not have the the f cio or ciso in mind the product has been re architected in a way to more favorably displace the legacy vendors including ms"
## [591] "nothing much to say everything was perfect"
## [592] "definitely faces some challenges typical to a big company"
## [593] "i did not really see any inconvenients"
## [594] "stockholm syndrome it is easy to feel intimidated google is a big company with a lot of insider technologies do not expect to know it all from day one"
## [595] "impact and growth opportunities depend heavily on your team when you first join you are typically assigned to a team so you might not be working on something you are super excited about you can transfer after months your equity is probably not going to x the tech stack is different than the rest of the industry though with google cloud platform they are trying to change that sf to mountain view commute is soul sucking not allowed to work on side projects that make money depending on the team people are not as hungry young motivated as what you might find at startups promotions are determined outside your team it is the best system i could imagine but it is also time consuming and slow"
## [596] "keep the fast pace alive"
## [597] "promotion process is very heavyweight requires way too much work"
## [598] "it is very large some people have gotten in that are not very googley and it is starting to feel corporate"
## [599] "work life balance could be improved"
## [600] "training and onboarding new team members in their line of service but we are getting better"
## [601] "so much competition for promotions because you are up against the rest of the cream of the crop that made it to google"
## [602] "bureaucracy common in a big company"
## [603] "starting on a new team could be chaotic if they do not already have a solid project for you to work on or a plan"
## [604] "poor balance between delivering fast and maintaining reducing technical debt develop and release quickly then only fix serious issues"
## [605] "executive management lacked focus and made poor decisions"
## [606] "you work + hours a week"
## [607] "none that i have encountered"
## [608] "decision making can be erratic"
## [609] "limited growth opportunities beyond your team"
## [610] "promotion driven development employees focus on launching crappy products and getting promoted instead of taking the time to build excellent products"
## [611] "impact can be hard to obtain at such a large company"
## [612] "little creativity and quotas often times outpace actual growth"
## [613] "complex systems need to do lot of work approvals reviews configuration code changes to make even small user facing changes"
## [614] "frequent org and strategy changes"
## [615] "many teams and people there is a good chance that there already is an entire team working on your research idea and that you only find out after sinking months into it often lack of strong leadership vision resulting in lack of synchronisation between teams"
## [616] "lack of structure for some roles can be challenging full of disgruntled overachievers that want to be vps but they can not all be vps"
## [617] "nothing bad google is a good company"
## [618] "there is not many positions for new fresh"
## [619] "very competitive no place for anyone over"
## [620] "there is bureaucracy at places culture of innovation seems to be fading"
## [621] "in my department turbulent management style led to attrition rate in months growth through chaos it really is about turning coal into diamonds incredibly stressful poor work life balance those sleeping rooms are there for a reason the hour r t commute to sf is nothing to sneeze at soul draining bias against older employees employees y o and older are referred to as grayglers this bias surfaces occasionally in the company culture"
## [622] "company got a bit large often it is hard to get visibility of the projects or accomplishments"
## [623] "commute from city and inability to work from the city"
## [624] "maybe the work to life balance could be better but overall it was very good"
## [625] "growing scaling difficult to do while staying agile"
## [626] "the hours can be long"
## [627] "proprietary technologies adhoc promotion process"
## [628] "none really that come to mind"
## [629] "nothing is bad about this job"
## [630] "i now a bigger company so it has become somewhat silo d"
## [631] "can not think of any"
## [632] "stress level is little high"
## [633] "do not expect to see great code expect a mess which everyone is struggling to understand caused by fast pace rapid turnover and some really spectacular bad past design decisions that make things very hard to trace but are now deeply embedded and would be very hard to remove having said that if this is your thing great they will reward you handsomely to help keep them afloat company is extremely pc but you already knew that apparently surveillance of personal email networks i can not prove it but i was creeped out too many times"
## [634] "having a list of approved languages is kind of a drag i am also hoping there will be a place for me in the future outside of the former company wth which i was acquired"
## [635] "not a real cons but you can get disoriented by the amount of stuff happening around you also the talent around you can be almost intimidating but the best talent thrives in that environment"
## [636] "im more of a bing guy tbh"
## [637] "no professional gym to use in building"
## [638] "do not expect much upward career movement but lateral moves are readily available middle or product level management needs a hard look and a swift kickstart"
## [639] "the company does not focus on organization processes it is not very lean"
## [640] "none at all to conplaine about code"
## [641] "losing their collaborative spirit much too competitive and political big machine makes it hard to get things done very hard to find new opportunities within the company"
## [642] "can be a lot of working hours at times new cfo seems to be cutting some of the more interesting projects"
## [643] "starting to become a large company albeit the best one i can think of might be harder to climb up the rungs"
## [644] "you may be nobody there"
## [645] "massive company sales is become extremely bureaucratic"
## [646] "it is big really big when i joined it was only people and still managed to feel like a young tech co but by the time i left it was closer to and the bureaucracy had really started to strangle various parts of the work that i did i once needed to get people to approve a deal in simba that was worth maybe k what a waste"
## [647] "growth in size means hierarchy and bureacracy"
## [648] "i do not have any cons"
## [649] "very few downsides to working at google i guess the worst thing i could say is that we sometimes have an identity crisis coming from a start up and entrepreneurial culture and trying to reconcile that with being so big"
## [650] "location is just very ok"
## [651] "work life balance can be very challenging"
## [652] "perks are great but do not let that fool you after your months of organized training is over you will be so caught up by the never ending internal metrics tracking your every move you will have no time to use the nap pod that all of your friends love to ask you about smb sales google marketing solutions is seen as a younger organization within the company and within overall google sales it is very difficult to rise the ranks as this reputation follows you throughout your career journey a significant amount of account strategists and direct sales employees within the organization are extremely unhappy many are absolutely miserable the work is mundane and people are constantly complaining as the organization continues to operate across the same metrics incentives and programs that it has been for almost years you will not hear a lot about this as employees always feel the pressure of saying that they are happy at one of the best companies in the world to work for no one wants to be the one who is complaining about problems at google to their friends outside the company perks culture and company reputation will keep you way past your expiration date you will find out you should have moved on way too late the hiring bar has severely decreased as the company gets larger mediocre employees are hired based on industry experience but have a very hard time ramping up to google s way of doing things and are often unable to keep up the process of performance reviews and promotions will at one way or another negatively impact you it is one of the most dramatic processes especially in this organization there are long lists of people waiting to rise to the next level in the company as people are ranked forcing you to wait your turn in a slowly moving cycle of burnt out individuals waiting for their recognition people sit in the same role burnt out and unhappy waiting for their chance to hopefully make the next cycle s cut promotions lead to generous pay raises but your job and experience stays the same in most situations"
## [653] "its growth has made it feel corporate"
## [654] "lots of sheltered individuals with little life experience and lots of managers who were promoted due to being good individual contributors"
## [655] "hard for women engineer with kids to compete with young unattached engineers the culture is supposed to evaluate based on individual contribution considering personal situations but that almost never happens"
## [656] "the visibility of your work is closely tied to the stage where you stays in the career ladder knowledge is hard to transfer to the work within startups"
## [657] "long commute if you live in sf"
## [658] "seems like some of the old benefits are kind of going away other companies are offering more money"
## [659] "growth ladder promotions cross collaboration"
## [660] "it is a big company and there are always organizational challenges that come with that"
## [661] "internal mobility can be difficult at times"
## [662] "its a lot of work"
## [663] "engineering is largely driven bottom up with less strategic oversight resulting in a less than cohesive overall company strategy"
## [664] "long hours high pressure work life balance challenges"
## [665] "work life balance competitive sometimes slow"
## [666] "hard work not enough days off"
## [667] "primarily research not best pay strict work attire fast deadlines periods of nothing to do"
## [668] "I would be foolish if i complained about google"
## [669] "sometimes very overwhelming work environment"
## [670] "commute to mtv was very long from sf"
## [671] "too many peer pressure bias management"
## [672] "terrible management bad employees bad pay"
## [673] "bad work life balance a lot of bureaucracy"
## [674] "some of the smart people stay with their project forever they have a lock on the project they are make themselves indispensable so they do not have to push to invent"
## [675] "no time for social and family"
## [676] "work life balance is not great"
## [677] "stressful things are more complicated than should be"
## [678] "bad work life balance nothing major"
## [679] "long hours and lots of work"
## [680] "the work life social life balance"
## [681] "speed is not so fast"
## [682] "changing policies and pay structure"
## [683] "there are absolutely no cons as of now"
## [684] "hard to find them so i would say none that i can identify"
## [685] "i can not think of any negatives"
## [686] "the work environment can be very stressful open office floor plans dominate they set high pressure expectations intentionally to make people strive harder if you have an anxiety disorder this is terrible and you will not thrive here attempting any sort of disability accommodations process will become an n way telephone game from hell"
## [687] "bad leadership salary does not match the work pay for own fuel to clients"
## [688] "some manager are simply bad obstacles to getting your work done fortunately google limits the damage a bad manager can do to your career"
## [689] "the work can be very boring at some parts but that is just the nature of the job i loved it but that was the complaint that some of my coworkers had"
## [690] "high tax in ca high price level"
## [691] "corporate environment due to the organisation being so large"
## [692] "pressure of going up or out huge difference between working in mountain view versus any other office"
## [693] "pay could be better as well as benefits the work environment also needed an upgrade such as kitchen facilities and work spaces"
## [694] "satellite office public transportation in boston is basically a joke open office not for everyone"
## [695] "terrible atmosphere wants everyone to submit to the machine world"
## [696] "glass door not too much room for improvement"
## [697] "google s fabled culture is all but gone and has been replaced by mind boggling bureaucracy and rampant nepotism in part due to the numerous acquisitions that allowed people that would have never been hired by google to join the company these acquisition employees bring their toxic culture with them and dilute the very fabric of being googley being at the mercy of perf to get promoted if a direct manager likes an employee then it is a walk in the park otherwise prepare to be stonewalled or have to resort to some serious brown nosing to get ahead also leveling up gets super competitive due to the large size of the company transferring teams is a challenge so most employees grin and bear it for a couple of years or leave the company it is hard for outsiders to understand but this happens to a lot of nooglers and re noogler events are done for employees that complete their first year it is unfortunate but after the rainbow colored glasses come off most new employees burn out google seems to bring out the workaholic in people politics among teams and orgs slow everything down often leading to delayed launches buggy releases and zero transparency also there is an awfully large amount of bad managers simply being great at a job does not create a good manager being a nurturing people person that enjoys building amazing employees is more effective"
## [698] "contract is limited so no possibility to get hired permanently"
## [699] "nothing no advice needed great company"
## [700] "easy to get lost in a huge company like this quality of groups can vary considerably"
## [701] "over time no work life balance"
## [702] "as a contractor rather than a full time permanent employee it is difficult to take ownership of projects and initiate changes usually there has to be some sign off on new initiatives for you if you are a contractor i felt that i would have been able to accomplish more as a full time googler"
## [703] "it is very difficult to move vertically or laterally at this point there is a lot of bureaucracy"
## [704] "crazy hard to understand performance reviews"
## [705] "none that come to mind"
## [706] "senior employees are promoted to management positions that they are not qualified for creating a large negative impact on the team direction and morale"
## [707] "no cheap housing nearby shuttle could take long"
## [708] "the promotion process is very arduous it literally costs google two months of productivity every year for every people manager it is insanity as a manager its very important to prioritize perf as you do not want to be the reason your report does not get promoted this results in two stressful months per year where its very difficult to focus on getting work done i will say that google tends to promote the right people there are very few false positives there are many false negatives not sure this is worse than manager centric review structures where one person controls your destiny but there are definitely room for improvements other big complaint this place is starting to really limit risk emerging and experimental projects are increasingly being canceled in favor of revenue generating projects google is no longer the place for experimentation that happens in other parts of alphabet being in the apps pa there is a laundry list of bb features that all apps are being asked to implement this leaves little room for innovation and creativity its just about execution the apps are tools for sales to land cloud and productivity suite contracts"
## [709] "as the company got bigger it felt more corporate and restrictive the pressure grew to where i really felt like i was on a hamster wheel there is not much opportunity for growth if you do not write code or do sales at least not in the distributed offices i left because i felt more busy than challenged and i was just burned out"
## [710] "bunch of nerds work here"
## [711] "the contract job too short"
## [712] "the management at gtech is clueless about what their workers actually do it led to poor morale and high attrition rates"
## [713] "managers do not seem to care how hard you work"
## [714] "none really i enjoyed my time there"
## [715] "very smart people end up with fairly mundane roles everyone is very smart a bad manager is a bad manager at any company"
## [716] "company getting a bit too big benefits are likely to decrease in the future also if you work at the hq you will need to tolerate the super expensive living cost"
## [717] "it is hard to make a positive impact in such a large company most positions are in california crowded offices cramped spaces a bit blokey"
## [718] "web based training as opposed to live classroom"
## [719] "some terrible managers who have no people skills"
## [720] "vertical growth processes growing centralization"
## [721] "google is a big company so it all depends on how good your team is the same applies to interviews the process can be differ to a great extent depending on your interviewers"
## [722] "the highest levels of management are not very responsive to feedback from employees and often hide behind the size of the organization when benefits such as healthcare keep getting worse without adequate justification"
## [723] "too much free food there really are not many downsides"
## [724] "it is a big company with a lot of smart people so it is hard to stand out it is easy to feel unnecessary not everyone has as great a management chain as i do"
## [725] "difficult to grow your career vertically lots of people who are not leaving commute to from mountain view to sf is terrible bureaucracy is growing and difficult to get things done"
## [726] "difficult to move teams in google"
## [727] "dumb people bad politics worst management"
## [728] "nothing that i think would be standard across many people s experiences i was not a fan of mtv and found the entire bay area dreadful being one of the few interns in my building and the only intern on my team i had some trouble finding other interns to bond with"
## [729] "poor work life balance some departments have red tape"
## [730] "internal transfer process is useless after all the effort to hire you a more seamless internal transfer process to other roles would be awesome it is easier to transfer to other roles on your ladder but not to other orgs when transferring to other orgs an internal person goes through the same process as an external candidate"
## [731] "you have to be ready for change pretty much any time if you think you can do the same job and just skate along to promotions and better compensation you will be mistaken"
## [732] "hard to make an impact people who work there can be super arrogant"
## [733] "feels like a really big place hard to make an individual impact"
## [734] "overstaffed at times work spread to thin"
## [735] "as a contractor it is difficult to convert to full time it is also not easy to get promoted google tends to pay slightly less than its competitors"
## [736] "bloated political promotions are like game of thrones complacent people do not get fired"
## [737] "unfortunately i was working more than i planned this is typical for most employees and what is expected by the company still i found the work compelling enough to stick with it for years"
## [738] "super competitive too many tools sell too many products"
## [739] "promotion process favors building new things shipping and design documents over incremental improvements infrastructure projects and individual contributions"
## [740] "none to share at the moment"
## [741] "bureaucratic political incredibly difficult to move up"
## [742] "not as clear as a focus on personal skill building rather on what you launch"
## [743] "weird people but nice place to be"
## [744] "no overtime atmosphere can be cutthroat"
## [745] "there is nothing to complain about them"
## [746] "cafeteria food was lackluster i was not happy with the robot minders"
## [747] "not a huge amount thankfully one might be is that there is lots of intelligent people can make it hard to shine at times"
## [748] "i guess there are no cons if somebody faces the issue they can complain and management takes good care of it but chances that the cons arises are very rare"
## [749] "you will spend alot of time working the work is demanding"
## [750] "location i prefer to live in sf"
## [751] "i work in google cloud in the seattle office and culture is divided on one side there are smart people taking smart decisions but on the other side there is what i consider a strong white masculine fraternity culture sadly this type of culture comes by people in the buddy buddy group taking on short shiny projects with poor long term support or design and many times without understanding of the problem in question the dedicated smart people will actually try to make these ideas work but the credit would be taken by someone else or sometimes with others leaving a big mess as i have seen several times in my team this culture goes two levels of depth in management making senior management unapproachable and also reflects on the products themselves there are many visionary type projects but with broken functionality or many incomplete solutions for the same goal"
## [752] "there are not much to say about cons of working at google but if i had to choose one it would be the pressure to finish all the work"
## [753] "being programmer means being creative well not at google you will have artificially created restraints in almost every aspect of your work here is an example readability in order to being able to commit some code at google you would need to have a readability in a language you are writing this piece of a code it does not matter if you have years of experience in that language it does not matter if you have certificate from the company that developed this language and in order to get readability you would need to write a lot of code in that language catch also you would have to wait for a pretty long time in the readability queue in order to just start with process you fill like you lost all the experience you had before with this language somebody who has readability and has less experience in this language than you will have power over you you would have to persuade this other person that your code is ok hypocrisy they still have courses at google where they teach you that it is important to have a rest it is important to manage your energy it is important to work when you are excited and energized and not work when you are not this is why they have all those massage chairs it used to be the company that valued all this it all changed i saw my manager writing in am and then writing in am again manager sets an example for it is subordinates and this example is terrible i also remember my manager writing email about his current state that he is sick at the same email he tells that he will do his best to do some work at the same time this same manager tells everybody else that if you are sick go home and take a rest and do not work i lost respect for my manager long time ago they want you to deliver results as soon as possible and yet they do not give you the ability to do it instead of just doing it you would have to write design docs with the future possible architecture which will always be different because we can not predict software development and persuade people who have more power than you those people will do their best to make sure you do not just start working on your code you would have to pass several rounds of this absurd they told me it is very important to predict how much time it would take to finish the project i asked them what is the technique to predict unpredictable and got no answer in return they told me it is very important to make sure you did your project as close to your predictions as possible i asked them what stops people from deliberately giving very large estimates completing a project sooner and just do nothing for the rest of the time i got no answer in return i completely lost respect this company this is absurd the management do not think about what they are doing and why they do not think about their own behavior and they own words"
## [754] "too many teams to choose from"
## [755] "big company hard to rise to senior management"
## [756] "big company more bureaucracy than before"
## [757] "no cons to speak of"
## [758] "cost of living around mountain view ca"
## [759] "politics in recruiting is unbearable"
## [760] "boring projects hard to transfer internally"
## [761] "not much to say"
## [762] "some roles are not well scoped out so there is a risk of not being a good fit resulting in some bad experience your manager will determine to a large extent the experience you will have at google bad manager = bad experience"
## [763] "hard to move up or to other departments lots of bureaucracy and bad managers"
## [764] "hard to get in hard to get promoted quickly that is it otherwise i love everything here"
## [765] "with k employees there are bound to be some bad leaders some of the ingrained folks have worked from being good software engineers to being terrible managers directors"
## [766] "offices are in the suburbs there is a free bus from san francisco but the commute is still hella uncool"
## [767] "many different and changing processes huge company so easy to feel small and not impactful many levels to climb to be promoted and difficult promotion process"
## [768] "long hours but worth every minute"
## [769] "code review takes so long"
## [770] "as a big corporation it takes some steps to get things approve"
## [771] "many larger organizations within google do not adhere to the company s philosophy for flat organizations do not encourage work life balance and use rigorous process for reviews which seems to encourage turn over for senior team members this things makes it feel like the google way is a myth"
## [772] "the project matching phase took quite amount of time"
## [773] "work life balance can suffer if you do not pay attention meals gyms pleasant work environments are designed to keep you happy working and they work in my first year i found myself working hour days at a minimum but I amade the conscious decision to cut back my time and adjust my goals so i was not killing myself while still doing amazing work"
## [774] "people get complacent it is a big company and hard to move up so folks do not try as hard as they could things get put on the back burner and efficiency falls in response the company hires more people and trends continue however now there are just more people siting around doing nothing"
## [775] "over saturated talent pool role is not well defined promotion rules vary a lot in between teams managers most projects are dull and boring to work for being political seems to be required when reaching senior levels not necessarily management"
## [776] "it is very competitive stressful and has become much more corporate"
## [777] "really hard driving teams and will need to work for a length of time to persuade teams to be open to ideas"
## [778] "it is a big company decisions are starting to get made for political reasons and a few bs have been hired who now hire cs"
## [779] "no cons to necessarily report large company but still feels like a young one"
## [780] "nothing i can think of at this point"
## [781] "no longer a startup like it used to be"
## [782] "had to move away from home to work their"
## [783] "too little vacation starts with only days per year for new employees"
## [784] "google s difficult to get into but also difficult to get fired from it is like stanford in that regard this has pro s easy to feel safe and cons easy to coast for years"
## [785] "no work life balance constantly working including weekends lack of product shipments and constant re orgs lost vision over the past years upward promotions are based on who you know not what you did work politics has gone really awful"
## [786] "big company so project scope is very small"
## [787] "no negative remarks to share"
## [788] "huge difficult to get promoted"
## [789] "it is a big company it is different from group to group it is critical to choose a good group"
## [790] "get s really competitive everyone stays in late due to the food"
## [791] "management needs managerial skills instead of micro managing"
## [792] "very political hard to get promoted"
## [793] "its a very big company"
## [794] "google has its own implementations of everything that you have to learn how to use"
## [795] "pay is not competitive in some markets"
## [796] "sometime too tight knit of a culture in the smaller offices"
## [797] "it is a large company so your job is not so important"
## [798] "huge company the location i was in was not ideal for a young person"
## [799] "sometimes there is high work pressure"
## [800] "social situation varies by office the interns at my office sfo did not seem to be social at all my friends in other offices described their time differently small cog in a big machine intern projects can vary in how interesting they are though most are at least fairly interesting somewhat bureaucratic although not a big issue for an intern"
## [801] "a small but growing minority suffers from entitlement self righteousness arrogance and laziness"
## [802] "way too many meetings politics difficult to work if you are in remote office choice of projects is limited many decisions are still made in mountain view"
## [803] "sometimes i felt like the entire campus was geared towards college students the bright colors the dorm like designs age of employees tended to skew younger"
## [804] "company has gotten a little too big the mtv campus is also too big and makes it a little hard to meet new people"
## [805] "managers are not good at google"
## [806] "opportunities for career growth are really limited if you are based in one of the alternate google offices and are unable to relocate"
## [807] "generally security officers are the first people that visitors or employees come in contact with at an organization they serve to protect the organization and help those who are in need of assistance since the security officers are often the first contacts they also serve to provide the first impressions of their security department and the organization as a whole"
## [808] "there really is not a con i can think of"
## [809] "commute can not complain about anything else"
## [810] "everything is good except hard to promote"
## [811] "can not say i have a whole lot of cons just the opportunity person is looking for do what you do and do it well and appreciate the opportunity that comes your way all in all great job number"
## [812] "as google grew it was unable to stave off the inevitable move into becoming a large bureaucratic organisation to its credit it avoided this fate for a long time but passing k employees made it inevitable that more structure read hierarchy and centralized decision making would be required"
## [813] "not so much on the tea through"
## [814] "too bureaucratic political for a tech company slow methodical it is just too large of a company doing too many things unnecessary middle management difficult promotion cycles bell curve"
## [815] "too many bright people not enough projects to keep them busy the promotion process seems very bizarre unlike any other organization that I have ever worked in"
## [816] "contractors treated like nd class citizens with a bright red badge not allowed to attend many of the company held events on campus"
## [817] "hard to get into job can be stressful at times and is typically a good jobs for work a holics lots of boring and uneventful updating on google servers"
## [818] "no coffee drinks in the mk fridges too much use of chicken thighs and kale in the cafeterias have to re interview to convert from intern to full time"
## [819] "work you like a dog"
## [820] "required to conduct interviews multiple times a week that is about it"
## [821] "feels like a big company"
## [822] "there are pretty much no cons"
## [823] "commute from san francisco is really bad"
## [824] "can be stressful can be boring"
## [825] "haven t been here long enough to experience much wrong yet"
## [826] "huge variance in work by team"
## [827] "climbing the ladder is impossible have to hop jobs sometimes you wont get the project you want a lot of work"
## [828] "lack of support to be promoted into director and above"
## [829] "pressure to complete projects in a rush etc"
## [830] "tvc could not get as much benefits as full time employees as a tvc myself the work i was doing and the skills i was using were very specific to the project can hardly be applied to other jobs"
## [831] "no cons for working at google"
## [832] "lack of communication with management"
## [833] "long hours sometimes they call too much when on holiday if you are leading teams and stuff life that"
## [834] "promotional structure is hierarchical and not transparent"
## [835] "nothing nothing nothing"
## [836] "becoming very hierarchical and bureaucratic limited opportunities to move into managerial roles early in career unless in sales org"
## [837] "has grown to become a large corporation increasingly hierarchical most product related roles are located in mountain view"
## [838] "it is hard to keep track of what other people are doing in such a large organization so sometimes you accidentally duplicate work"
## [839] "duplication of effort across bus"
## [840] "your experience highly depends on the team you are on and the role you work on non technical roles outside of pm eng and ux are paid much less and feels like they are given much less attention"
## [841] "company seems to be too big for me"
## [842] "not a lot of room for growth vertically"
## [843] "not enough negative critical feedback"
## [844] "sometimes there was politics instead of just making great products"
## [845] "upward mobility is limited"
## [846] "some teams work in not interesting areas"
## [847] "feel like a small fish in a big pond"
## [848] "not many certain teams definitely get more attention but that makes total sense otherwise i did not personally have a problem with management"
## [849] "long commute and limited conversion rate to full time from contract"
## [850] "finding hard workers sales based on customer s credit"
## [851] "have to schedule haircut internal politics"
## [852] "not enough compensation for me"
## [853] "big and corporate but nice"
## [854] "the con was all foods and drinks were free including desserts that contributed to rapid weight gain for the over indulgent"
## [855] "too many cooks in the kitchen"
## [856] "google is growing quickly and as the company grows decision making sometimes slows down we are not the scrappy company we used to be"
## [857] "sometimes overly data driven lack of instinct based decision making dogmatic methodology"
## [858] "google currently working with very unprofessional official vendor recruiter like etouch"
## [859] "too big organizations and slower decision making than before"
## [860] "i do not really know what to say i really really like it"
## [861] "lots of traffic very hard to get to work in mtv"
## [862] "growth opportunities limited to very specific roles too big and spread out might as well be multiple companies sometimes its hard to understand how what you are working on fits into the larger process opaque promotion process product eng ux monetization not as connected as they should be"
## [863] "corporate politics and needs more bathrooms"
## [864] "none that i can think of"
## [865] "people were all nice but it was very competitive and i could not enjoy my time there anymore so i left"
## [866] "nothing to say that is bad"
## [867] "i could not think of any"
## [868] "commute is really long and sometimes i wonder how much people care about each other of you know what I amean"
## [869] "too big stuck up people they all think they are smart not all but most what can i say it is a huge company"
## [870] "many of the top talents are working on mundane things"
## [871] "frequent reorganization lack of project directions and commitments"
## [872] "disadvantages of a big company"
## [873] "while nothing is perfect google was close it is hard work but that is what everyone signed up for"
## [874] "getting big hard to have impact be nimble lots of temps vendors contractors cut throat"
## [875] "slow cycles non meritocratic no incentive to work harder waste time on irrelevant bureaucracy"
## [876] "google is now a big company and you do not have the flexibility as years past expected and any large company faces the same challenges"
## [877] "limited perks i get that tvcs can not have the same perks as fte but as a tvc you are constantly reminded of your lack of privilege by both google and your peers true story as a designer at google i once had to design a t shirt for a team outing i could not attend because of my tvc status and then i was not given a t shirt despite having designed it because swag is a fte perk only really guys people depending on the team you get people are extremely cliquey and treat tvcs like second class citizens borderline work slaves i have been disrespected and downright mistreated many times at google growth as a tvc you do not get to have growth and management does not care about it work the work is boring and repetitive i was hired to do a job that sounded interesting exciting and creative i ended up getting a series of the same tasks because that is what my team needed from me despite having asked for different projects and complained about being burned out i am still asked to perform the same tasks design as a contract designer you will not get any portfolio worthy projects i know many contract designers at google and they all feel the exact same way that i do we feel like the help and it is awful"
## [878] "they are very particular with their hiring and it can take awhile"
## [879] "large company culture out of focus"
## [880] "work life balance ever changing management structure"
## [881] "if you are a software engineer swe i do not recommend joining the site reliability engineering sre team because google sre management is clueless and plays favoritism you will be responsible for both sre works and software developments your software development skills will be judged by developers in feature teams because you were in a sre team the goal of google sre management is to get you do sre works and then eventually screwing your career and promote fellow sres"
## [882] "hr processes can be more flexible"
## [883] "commute spoiled coworkers second class treatment of contract employees"
## [884] "long term commitment missing farsightedness missing"
## [885] "moved to the bay area to work for google and it is cramped our house is small and my commute long"
## [886] "too much of a hipster lazy culture"
## [887] "interview was a little tough and you need to have in depth knowledge about all the routing protocols"
## [888] "need more time to execute your idea"
## [889] "not good for career development huge company narrow scope for us based roles"
## [890] "not yet good compny keep moving"
## [891] "it is easy to disappear in the noise and never get noticed"
## [892] "tough to grow up the ladder"
## [893] "quite political and mileage might vary depending on which teams you join and which manager you get depends a lot on luck"
## [894] "if you do not fit a certain mold you will only go so far"
## [895] "occasionally gruelling work hours but decent work life balanxe"
## [896] "working with temps predatory employment agreement factory like work environment overcomplicated processes tools to do thing hourly tracking of time micromanagement human resources no full time local representation"
## [897] "lower salaries compared to competitors"
## [898] "many people at google are over qualified for the job they are doing this is on purpose and allows google to have great performers that can quickly takeover more responsibilities and climb the corporate ladder it is what happened to me but many people that were not aware of that and signed their contract for the name google more than for a specific job got really disappointed with that"
## [899] "haven t found any cons except you must be intelligent cop up with their standards"
## [900] "no business discipline poor senior leadership too much of a focus on shiny things vs driving revenue"
## [901] "it is becoming a big corporation with more bureaucracy and slow decision making each pixel sized feature has to be reviewed a b tested and approved"
## [902] "with lots of acquisitions and old timers not going anywhere limited upward mobility options after a while which is prompting unforeseen politics but much less than other companies intense competition because of so many talented people with incredible resumes"
## [903] "low pay for my family"
## [904] "can not say i can think of any but if at all I would like to improve the quality of indian food"
## [905] "none that i can think of"
## [906] "too much institutionalization of everything"
## [907] "it is becoming a very large company with many layers of hierarcy and a greater top down decision making process than it used to be growing pain and sometimes chaotic environment employees in remote offices have fewer opportunities"
## [908] "i have no downside at work"
## [909] "work gets boring fast and there is so many good people you feel easily replaceable and that you do not really make that much of an impact constant changes and reorgs some are lucky to go through their careers sticking with the same team on the other hand there are also plenty of people like me I have gone through team changes in years and only one of those was initiated by me the promotion process is terrible and more about politics than merit before coming into google this was the only concern i had based on reviews i read here years ago unfortunately nothing has changed and I would argue the process has gotten slightly worse someone who plays the game and toots his her own horn is more likely to get promoted than someone who actually does good work but is humble about it simplify is more of a buzzword internally than something they put into practice the number of tools and resources is overwhelming and unnecessary every time they say they are going to simplify they just remove one thing and replace it with another there is a very corporate feel to google when i first interviewed i remember being told they still had a startup vibe not even a shred of that vibe since I have started"
## [910] "technology is very old very limited choice of technology which you can choose to work with for advanced developers google is just waste of time support is very week you can spend hours of chatting with support and then it is converted to a ticket so most of the time in google you just spend for useless and boring things"
## [911] "getting big need to find your place where you can make the biggest impact"
## [912] "the location could be a bit better but it is still a great place"
## [913] "google does an amazing job of offering lots of benefits for families with a company full of driven individuals it can be hard to strike the right balance between work and life without jeopardizing your success in the other"
## [914] "hard work long hours but if you can handle the pressure of being surrounded by geniuses all the time then you should be just fine"
## [915] "google is a big company so there are going to be winners and losers when it comes to career growth due to the high hiring bar most people who do not win are smart people as well and their experience sours this place is optimized to avoid false positives in every step and false negatives are inevitable at least when you get promoted you can feel good that you have truly done something you have to have skill to find impactful areas or projects or start one in order to grow fast a lot of people can not or do not want to do that they want it lying there in a platter in front of them i do not mean this disrespectfully i have been there this is why smaller companies or startups look attractive it is easier to grow in a less competitive place and there is nothing wrong in wanting that â in my experience a lot of people who say google is boring and young smaller companies are those that are good at building things and solving problems that a thousand other engineers can solve they just want a place where it has not been solved at google a lot of your basic services and infra are built so the problems to solve get substantially more difficult and requires some lateral thinking as well again no disrespect there are lot of people out there including me who would like interesting problems handed over to us in a place of this size you have to navigate some political issues in critical systems like search you can just push new things rightfully so it is a process and you have to convince that your feature can be used by a billion people I am sure every company would do this"
## [916] "too many layers of no op managers no tooling to do your job e g ios development on mac free lunch is low quality poor selection time is a straight up lie"
## [917] "tedious work no hope of ever rising out of contract status despite what some managers would tell you"
## [918] "not too much sometimes people get burned out but the culture makes it difficult to present anything other than success and happiness"
## [919] "political activity groups try to take credit for the work of others"
## [920] "contracts are not allowed to partake in all perks offered by google"
## [921] "since the company has become so large it started to have more politics and heavy process than years ago growth opportunity within some of the larger ux team maybe limited"
## [922] "risky projects get cancelled all the time that feels bad when you are working on something cool and it gets cancelled by senior management"
## [923] "hard to prove yourself in such competitive place"
## [924] "poor middle management that plays favorites employees in remote offices have fewer opportunities not very welcoming especially to diverse employees minority employees are leaving at an alarming rate the enterprise division has a different negative culture than the main google alphabet re orgs are extremely common you never know what is gonna happen next month big company bureaucracy small teams can be very politicized and somewhat mediocre salary decisions are made using someoneâ\200\231s current salary instead of what the job is worth it appears they are working hard on this but most of us are still affected by it"
## [925] "too much free food can cause obesity"
## [926] "millennial environment which as a millennial i do not like forced get togethers"
## [927] "every job has bad days but this place s bad days are not really that bad"
## [928] "sometimes you had to work too much"
## [929] "sometimes it was hard to get coworkers on the same page people spend inordinate time on their own personal projects instead of the collaborative work assigned"
## [930] "i do not have any cons to report at this point i think anyone who is afraid of working hard will not thrive well here"
## [931] "product failure rate high perpetual migration to do low performers are tolerated because managers are busy managing yet another reorganization"
## [932] "tedious job less growth too many distractions less travel opportunities less exposure"
## [933] "age bias difficult interactions between sales and engineering mistrust of information from the field often lacking long term development commitment to products for enterprise and while everything is data driven sometimes that data has been intentionally skewed by people seeking to influence decision making"
## [934] "high expectations politics of course there is politics everywhere sometimes more swirl around bigging something up than it actually being impactful"
## [935] "big company bureaucracy lots of legacy to maintain"
## [936] "not family friendly now that i have kids i do not wan to spend time playing ping pong and taking advantage of free fun events i want to get home with my kids"
## [937] "it is a large company so there is some bureaucracy frequent reorganizations"
## [938] "if you are a contractor do not expect career growth take your experience and leave if you are a vendor then expect to be in hell because you will not have any hopes for promotion or conversion if a full time position opens up on your team expect management to block your application even if you are qualified and once they hire a full time employee expect to have to train that person full time and vendor management tends to micromanage and is generally unappreciative and suspicious if you work under them with a red badge do not expect any work flexibility or autonomy expect to be treated like a second class citizen and do not expect to get any respect the google perks like food gym etc really depends on where your office is located if you are a tvc then likely you will not get easy access to these perks because you may be located on a vendor only office that is specially set up without these amenities"
## [939] "large locations like mountain view new york etc are very impersonal smaller locations are more friendly personable but may have a smaller selection of projects to choose from some projects teams have process burdens that impede progress task completion many teams use proprietary google tech rather than externally available popular opensource technology as a result many skills gained may not be as portable to other companies"
## [940] "the promotion system has made things quite political getting more and more hierarchical people see each other s level and management tend to believe in higher level people changes are slow absence of good system to deal with low performers"
## [941] "nothing bad in here just a little bit slow of project"
## [942] "projects are often plagued by ambiguous goals not uncommon for taking on audacity they are frequently inconsistently managed frequently changing targets based on the feeling of the day"
## [943] "difficult to get holistic picture due to size of organisation"
## [944] "you just do a little part of a project"
## [945] "company seems very big sometimes"
## [946] "competitive environment stress hard work"
## [947] "overcrowded poorly maintained campus mountain view ca limited parking space noisy cramped open space office reduces productivity all that keeps getting worse as more and more employees are packed into the same buildings i am surprised perks show as pros in reviews personally i would pay out of pocket for food without long lines or quiet office"
## [948] "you spend a lot of working on smaller problems"
## [949] "it is a big company so there are a lot of politics that go into things that even though i did not experience the negative effects of as an intern affect engineers"
## [950] "can not think of any as of yet"
## [951] "lacking collaboration amongst team members"
## [952] "company is too big and complicated to navigate lot of time spent on internal reporting and justification hard to stand out moving forward is based on politics not on ability"
## [953] "hectic environment lots of work to do tough competitors"
## [954] "employee i deserve this right now entitlement is real huge company with top tier talent means that only the best of the best can truly impact anything mountain view hq is way too massive"
## [955] "too many people less exciting new projects"
## [956] "you have a lot of free food so you might start being fat workload is pretty heavy it is hard sometimes to have work life balance"
## [957] "it just has so many talented people so the space for you is very limited and one can feel pressure at there"
## [958] "none that i can think of"
## [959] "it is a big company with lots of rules in place about promotions can feel arbitrary sometimes"
## [960] "not all projects are exiting and a lot of work are creative however i would say that google is doing a good job keeping the bureaucratic overhead low for its size"
## [961] "if you are a contractor you are treated like a second class citizen"
## [962] "getting a little slow to get things done but there is no other large company that i rather work in"
## [963] "no one is perfect no company is perfect there are great people and there are jerks there are great managers and a bunch of not so great ones if you go in thinking this is some utopia that does not have politics and bureaucracy you will get disillusioned really fast and it is a company full of overachievers so it is hard to maintain work life balance if you want to keep up with your peers unless you explicitly force yourself to only work a certain amount"
## [964] "some of the work sucks"
## [965] "internal toolchains are sometimes hard to use promotion system heavily base on product launches food quality is kind of declining"
## [966] "poor field execution and support"
## [967] "i cannot think of any cons to write"
## [968] "if you a contractor you are zero there they do not listen to your opinion"
## [969] "i worked at google for years and really do not have major complains about the environment only that i did run into a number of self focused manager who would have done better to take care of their teams"
## [970] "i can not figure out maybe it is not startup culture anymore"
## [971] "i cannot think of any cons i just like how they run things like clockwork"
## [972] "long hours immense pressure at times it is not a start up any more lots of people you see some politics there"
## [973] "i need to move to another place with my families"
## [974] "nothing really cons to say"
## [975] "slow decision making as the company continues to grow at an amazing pace"
## [976] "none do not expect the comps to be as competitive as other hot startups"
## [977] "slow promotion track the pipeline to promotion is long and daunting large corporate feel tougher to stick out among hundreds of peers at your same level role exceptionally fast paced the product updates are sometimes too much to keep on top of base pay is low the base pay is disappointing compared to the non sales org pay"
## [978] "by having so much that is free they own your time and mask the many things about it that are not cool all of it is public it is just that some of its affiliations and aspirations are not obvious and make people like me feel good about working there"
## [979] "enterprise side needs a lot of work"
## [980] "very very demanding it takes up all of your time no time for any other activities"
## [981] "demanding job tough to disconnect"
## [982] "too big of a company hard to move up in company hard to balance work with social life"
## [983] "because the talent pool is so deep in google some very talented people end up doing trivial things also though the company is of considerable size career mobility is not all you would think it is and is more of a resume booster than a company to grow old with"
## [984] "frequent shuffling on management and teams"
## [985] "interview process does take quiet a while"
## [986] "imposter syndrome for me long commute twenty percent time is hard to make time for the delicious food will make you fat"
## [987] "salaries could be higher perks are great"
## [988] "can be cloistered ivory tower"
## [989] "depends on which department you work for you people work same project and it could be competitive"
## [990] "the projects are fast paced so be prepared we work nonstop although it is not always a serious environment during breaks we tend to avoid talking about work because we are always so busy with it"
## [991] "not too many career advance opportunities"
## [992] "this is not a place to coast come ready to make a difference"
## [993] "becoming more conventional as size grows with a limited scope of what one can do"
## [994] "due to the size of the company different divisions of google have different cultures it can be hard for job applicants to know which divisions they want to work in"
## [995] "can not think of any at the moment"
## [996] "the cafeterias are overrates they all the same i prefer to get paid more so i could eat out"
## [997] "remote office means you are disconnected"
## [998] "size of the company is huge so do not expect startup culture"
## [999] "you work all of the time as in google is your life but you love it so much you do not mind"
## [1000] "very difficult to promote depending on what group you belong to"
## [1001] "there are no cons about google a person is crazy to think there are any cons about this wonderful place"
## [1002] "it is a fairly competitive place with few room for advancement if you are in a fairly mature team the performance review process is very contrived and tend to favor shiny visible projects over other critical ones that are not that sexy the commute"
## [1003] "none so far i really can not think of any"
## [1004] "company is starting to show age with too much bureaucracy hard to get promoted"
## [1005] "not a small company it is slow to deploy product changes and as a product person you will spend way more time building consensus and getting approval for launching something than actually building the product"
## [1006] "the company is too big to get anything done reasonably easy"
## [1007] "main offices are in expensive areas oncall rotations interfere with work life balance"
## [1008] "the company is a lot bigger than it used to be and though it is done better than most it can not help slowing down as it grows some of the reasons i came to work at google when it was employees are no longer true"
## [1009] "mature products move slow due to size and complexity quite a few overly talented people for what they are doing"
## [1010] "lots of management overhead does move slowly especially on the engineering side which means you sometimes have to sit on your hands also there is a decent amount of back and forth from middle management on direction"
## [1011] "work life balance lost small company feel very competitive big egos"
## [1012] "it is too boring to work there"
## [1013] "flat structure means career movement can be difficult"
## [1014] "career growth depends heavily on team and manager"
## [1015] "a common problem with large companies it is a lot competition to climb up the latter from an ordinary engineer"
## [1016] "politics are starting to get in the way of engineering since launches are incentivized so heavily in promo process negative dogfood feedback is often ignored on the way to launch with few or no consequences"
## [1017] "hours can be long sometimes"
## [1018] "very large company functions can be silo d"
## [1019] "since it is already a huge company so probably some of the projects at google are not as challenging as before if you want to solve challenging problem then it is not the perfect place"
## [1020] "i can not think of any yet other than all the cons that go with working for a big corporate machine"
## [1021] "can not think of any"
## [1022] "ambiguous environment not easy to navigate for a lot of ppl"
## [1023] "work with very talented ambitious people who will not tolerate shoddy work promotion based on merit not seniority your intern can become your technical lead in a few years if he she is outstanding"
## [1024] "a little scattered at times this was part of the fun"
## [1025] "the company is getting so big that standards can be different from org to org causing confusion for employees"
## [1026] "lots of bureaucracy which is normal and expected for such a large company"
## [1027] "politics too much focus on titles and ranks sucking up to other people growing pains google is growing rapidly and starting to move slower"
## [1028] "this depends on the person"
## [1029] "difficult to transition full time for most"
## [1030] "bureaucracy duplication of efforts lost efforts mostly based on it being a giant ship"
## [1031] "dont want to leave some days"
## [1032] "no everything works perfectly its very hard to say cons"
## [1033] "totally nothing is bad about the goog"
## [1034] "can get a bit competitive at times in a good way"
## [1035] "advancement is a bit hit and miss you can get stuck on a dead end project and there are surprisingly many of those at google"
## [1036] "way too much middle management and hierarchy mostly incompetent lower level management it is a quick way to get promoted when you are out of steam technically you start going to a bunch of meetings and become a tlm little to no opportunity for advancement as individual contributor super competitive atmosphere very little recognition is general since your very best is meh there some people get promoted to very high positions for reasons unknown others do not get promoted even though they very obviously deserve it not talking about myself here lots of people are stuck doing crappy work they are way overqualified for just waiting for a good opportunity to jump ship work life balance can be a challenge especially if you want to get promoted beyond t"
## [1037] "lots of competition and hard to move up"
## [1038] "i dont have any thing to say bad about the company"
## [1039] "they will lie to recruit you and promise training ops roations and learning opportunities that never happen"
## [1040] "no major cons to mention"
## [1041] "high tax high expense to live"
## [1042] "senior leadership career opportunities for senior levels performance management"
## [1043] "it is a big company things do not turn on a dime there is a lot of process and it is very engineering directed"
## [1044] "there are lots of different internal systems which you can build things upon but the learning curve is steep take a long time to ramp up"
## [1045] "big organization and it is hard to get noticed"
## [1046] "the large size of the company has produced bureaucracy and several layers of teams departments orgs that can slow down decision making and progress"
## [1047] "starts to become a little bit too big and is more like a big corporation now"
## [1048] "work life balance can be difficult not necessarily due to management asking you to work off hours but because sometimes it is hard to disconnect"
## [1049] "large corporate and difficult to rise up after a certain point in your career"
## [1050] "meal policy and so on"
## [1051] "cons are that there are absolutely no cons but google is life and without it we wouldnt be alive today so thank you google and everything you do you are life"
## [1052] "san francisco is very expensive although i was making a lot of money i ended up spending all of it hard to find right place to live"
## [1053] "can be stressful at times"
## [1054] "sales business side is becoming political zero sum game and bureaucratic you spend a ton of time playing internal politics low engagement work and have a reorg every months"
## [1055] "there is not a lot of opportunity in the cambridge office to advance for non engineering positions it is not the easiest location to get to lots of traffic and the garage is undergoing major construction for the next years it has turned into a big company where decisions take forever to be made and there is a lot of red tape they say they allow flexibility but everything is up to an individual manager s discretion so there is hardly anyone that is part time and almost every job requires travel"
## [1056] "there are enough talented people that being talented will not guarantee you an inside track on good projects because there are thousands of equally smart people ahead in the queue and equally underutilized but there are just enough bozos that you have to prove that you are not one of them"
## [1057] "huge scale can be overwhelming as with all companies there are office politics at least everyone is trying to be googlely"
## [1058] "mountain view centric attitude leads to extreme commute times this is the largest negative about working here and i probably would have left by now if i was not able to work from home or the sf office most of the week I am sure if you live in boring suburbia it d be fine but i do not want to do that"
## [1059] "so large scale hopefully more addressable with the new restructuring that similar projects spawn at different offices that couldve been better generalized and collaborated on if there had been a better platform for discovering ongoing or pitched projects had a very positive experience with my first internship but my second felt more overbearing and too broad to be polished on delivery by the end of my internship if you are considering interning here make sure you discuss your project s scope and depth before you decide to take on a team most teams do a great job of this but mine was fairly new and grew quickly which meant i ended up doing lots of proof of concept work and design reviews for code to replace obsolete peripheral code for more context the project goal was android but i spent a bulk of my internship doing design reviews and proof of concept deployment of a whole new backend and only weeks on android development"
## [1060] "bureaucracy at times like any other companies consensus driven culture senior management is sometimes managing up rather than down which can be frustrating"
## [1061] "none that i can think of"
## [1062] "for most i think the small impact you can make because there is so much talent there and roles can be narrowly defined"
## [1063] "i do not really see any cons of working at google i decided to leave because i wanted to be closer to my family"
## [1064] "salary compensation was unsatisfying and inadequate for the high quality professional performances provided"
## [1065] "you cannot make intelligent decisions"
## [1066] "too many people too many visitors"
## [1067] "harder to transfer between roles"
## [1068] "navigating career changes internally can be challenging just because you are at the company does not mean the process is necessarily easier for changing roles can feel like a competitive environment at times but this is due to the fact that it is filled with high performing over achievers vs actual competition"
## [1069] "work and life balance no time off the future of the company is all based on moonshots the core products are doing well but could have the stool pulled from under them at any moment"
## [1070] "too many smart people too much conflict there is saying in google welcome to google where impossible stuff is easy and easy stuff is impossible the company is now huge so we are seeing less and less collaboration between products"
## [1071] "working hard can include long hours weekends accommodating global timezones and other difficulties this is not a company moving up can be incredibly slow"
## [1072] "this company is going the big wigs way the time to work on own projects is over blown and you really dont get this much time"
## [1073] "some of the people are rude and do not listen to you so just make sure to select the right teammates in your groups"
## [1074] "expensive area to live in"
## [1075] "company has grown to be large"
## [1076] "not too high salary technical interview is very difficult no leetcode problems new problems never saw before"
## [1077] "working for such a large company means it takes longer to get anything done as an ios developer google does ios development very differently from other companies traffic is a pain getting in and out of campus"
## [1078] "it was a lot of hard work but thats expected"
## [1079] "hiring can be a mess and take forever there is a lot of either deprecated technology in the stack or tech that is not ready to use"
## [1080] "the shuttle schedules were sometimes hard to work around"
## [1081] "hard to go up as a contractor"
## [1082] "the open office layout is noisy and distracting it is possible to cope but i really wish we had separate cubes or offices being social is required to get ahead everyone has a high level of competence coming in so you get ahead through collaboration leadership impact and other things that are difficult to do if you are not a social person"
## [1083] "frustrating management at times hard to feel meanginful with so many people tiring work sometimes"
## [1084] "no room to become full time none contract pay is on the low end"
## [1085] "long hours + as an unpaid intern"
## [1086] "great workers and great food"
## [1087] "management quality depends on your department product"
## [1088] "hires ex consultants for operational leadership roles who continue to be consultants than operational leaders with some exceptions not open to leveraging industry best practices and a lot of re inventions happen for processes that can easily be leveraged from the market this might be frustrating for folks with significant industry experience"
## [1089] "the pace is very fast and it can be hard to achieve the right balance"
## [1090] "depending on the department bureaucracy can quite a problem there were obvious ways to make things better but the top leaders were either uninvolved and focused on other sexier projects or were never given the honest critical information inefficiencies were not fixed because teams and departments were built around how things worked not optimally this led to management pushing and trying to exceed targets in a non optimal system rather than trying to fix the system itself some employees were incentivized to get promotions by garnering attention rather than improving and fixing real problems to improve the product and user s experience"
## [1091] "long time for a hiring decision for mba full time and intern roles"
## [1092] "do not have many opportunities to do something unique"
## [1093] "no direction guidance or training it was literally sink or swim the content of what we were working on was not interesting or challenging and when tried to shift to other projects we were told that we could only do this one thing usually a good manager will help their employees find a project where they can build their strengths i think they did not really care if we left but thought hey we can always hire more we are google they treated employees as disposable there was no flexibility for the team we were on we were micromanaged and they did not treat us like adults our manager was not interested in building our individual careers or supporting us but just running the business at a strategic level and would constantly cancel meetings for personal reasons some people were obsessed about working at google almost like it was a sorority or fraternity and it was a little cultish even one of my friends said when i worked there all i did was talk about working there"
## [1094] "easy to coast part of a large organism can become institutionalized"
## [1095] "slow moving bureaucracy does not always react to change"
## [1096] "core values do not always trickle down due to pockets of bad middle management"
## [1097] "bad career path most people stop at t to reach t you have to fight for leadership and ownership communication overhead due to the sheer size of the company personal growth while you are exposed to interesting and technical deep projects you are likely to get lost on how the entire infrastructure works bad if you want to build skills for running or joining startups"
## [1098] "i cannot think of any"
## [1099] "too many middle managers with lack of focus start projects and then quickly abando nothem open discrimination of women disabled and minorities"
## [1100] "sales team is big and bureaucratic not startup like at all hard to get out of sales onto other teams very few opportunities in boston due to it being a remote office"
## [1101] "there are no other better companies in the world"
## [1102] "sometimes over time working normal salary"
## [1103] "it is easy to get lost and overwhelmed if you do not have a clear role and desire to continuously grow if you get complacent or if you do not pay attention to surrounding teams you probably will not be there long"
## [1104] "lots of change constantly occuring"
## [1105] "not a single thing i can think of"
## [1106] "nothing bad to say about the company"
## [1107] "hard to compete working env is turning like as it other big companies"
## [1108] "late to the party"
## [1109] "it is a big company so you have to work harder to find opportunities to build new things the nice thing is the new things you build are built on top of the work of tons of brilliant people so whatever you end up making will be very specialized and probably pretty awesome"
## [1110] "too much delicious food not enough time to eat it all"
## [1111] "there was always lots of work to be done and had to work long hours must be very committed to the job"
## [1112] "so many talented people around you that it is very hard to single out"
## [1113] "it is a large company and like any big company there can be bureaucracy commuting to mountain view can be a bit of a drag"
## [1114] "complicated organization with frequent reorganizations"
## [1115] "you are a small fish in a big pond easy for some people to coast and get lost in the crowd the work you are doing likely has very little impact on the overall company"
## [1116] "wlb in a lot of marketing teams is a myth"
## [1117] "poor work life balance at work"
## [1118] "the sheer size of the company can be a bit aggravating sometimes along with the entitlement work life was not particularly good at times"
## [1119] "nothing is bad about google"
## [1120] "duplicative efforts often reinventing the wheel"
## [1121] "too far from the city nothing to do in mtv hard to do extra projects as a contractor"
## [1122] "incredibly diverse company hires and acquires way too many mediocre people bad managers prevail"
## [1123] "it has a lot of people working on a lot of projects so it is hard to make a decision"
## [1124] "employees are almost exclusively from top tier universities and privileged backgrounds relative lack of intellectual and cultural diversity"
## [1125] "can get lost in the organization if you are not careful some products seem to lack focus"
## [1126] "dangerous zero growth time away from home no benefits"
## [1127] "the commute to mountain view from san francisco is horrific even if you work with people on the campus you may never see them due to sprawl and traffic"
## [1128] "workaholics intense competition constant game of thrones contractors are sort of a sub class make less money have limited access to meetings projects and facilities for the same position"
## [1129] "not easy to rise up"
## [1130] "the hands on model requires lots of work and is challenging to scale keeping all the students engaged and growing is a big responsiblity and requires constant vigilance"
## [1131] "hard for a returning full time offer"
## [1132] "non traditional sales roles that only use the complex adwords platform"
## [1133] "hard to show yourself among others to develop your career path"
## [1134] "i saw a lot of hierarchical nonsense the promotion process seems to be very draining horrible communication between the intern team and the interns there are just too many interns to be perfectly honest"
## [1135] "a lot of the cons below are projections of my experience at google do a ton of research on the role you will be applying for find people on linkedin scour reddit learn as much as you possibly can about what you will be doing to try and prepare for what is to come your experience at google will largely depend on your team and or manager if you join a bad team and or a bad manager you will be in for a rough months the minimum amount of time that is usually required to transfer out anything you do or create outside of work is owned by google regardless of whether you used their resources or not to do it this could be a huge issue for you if you contribute heavily to open source and or like to build side projects google s people ops do look out for people doing this too the compensation is okay depending on where you are coming from but salary is practically non negotiable stock units are more flexible though and might not even be competitive depending on your area lots of funded startups and finance shops pay significantly better for the same level of experience additionally compensation does not scale relative to growth one could double their salary or more within the same amount of time it takes to get from mid range to senior at google almost everything that an engineer at google uses on a daily basis is home grown and maintained by other googlers much of this tooling is incredibly complicated and takes months to warm up to this could be a major brain drain to consider depending on your career path and or whether you are thinking of staying at google long term that said some of the tools were pretty good though i usually preferred third party alternatives for many of the others i worked with most of the sexy projects that makes google google are in mountain view and if you really want to take your career at google seriously you will eventually have to move out there living costs in the bay are insane and show no signs of restoring sanity any time soon despite having all of the infrastructure to support it remotely working is generally discouraged by most teams that said many many meetings are done completely or partially with hangouts and google s solution for accessing internal resources from public endpoints is probably the best there is their interview process is generally terrible engineers at google generally do not like to interview and or provide feedback so the interview experience for potential candidates varies wildly across the board the process also takes a really long time it took me about four months to get to the offer stage apparently that is normal there to put this into perspective I have worked at places that took a week from cold start to signed offer they can not possibly not be losing talent from these insane delays i do not remember seeing more people glued to their phone or laptop in a single workplace before coming here it seems like almost everyone travels while glued to their phone here it is maddening most interviews are focused almost entirely on technical merit this makes it much more likely for engineers with strong technical skills but very weak social skills to make it through the cracks if you are more outgoing and extroverted this might bother you it bothered me to no end there is lots of exciting work being done at google but more exciting work usually means even more operational work a lot of extremely capable people get slotted into doing that sort of work do as much research as you can on your role to give you an idea of what you are getting into technical merit is placed above all else as an engineer because this is a significant determinant in promotion decisions a lot of people spend a lot of time doing complex and impactful work at the expense of things like documentation or maintainability as you might imagine this leads to a lot of reinvented wheels and deprecation it does not help that every project seemingly has to have a name to it that might or might not have anything to do with the project that describes it work life balance highly depends on your team in my experience people at google that spent a lot of time working after hours did so on their own volition for better or worse management never pressured me to work more than i wanted to in fact they have had to tell people to ease up"
## [1136] "flat organization leads to very autonomous environment products not geared toward large gov enterprise"
## [1137] "everyone is so smart it is hard to stand out expect high level of efficiency productivity harder for low level engineers to have high individual impact you get impact by working on projects that have lots of users"
## [1138] "after recent restructuring it will be difficult for people in the alphabet companies to move about between projects which will limit future opportunities the interview process makes it difficult for good people to come in outside of being acquired"
## [1139] "upper management does not take middle management seriously"
## [1140] "pay sucks and management is not very good with people"
## [1141] "it is far from where i live and the business is huge so you cant get to meet everyone"
## [1142] "stress of the job can be high especially if there is management turnover and frequent changes in priorities feeling like i have to compete with team mates"
## [1143] "no opportunity to grow very data centric collaboration needs to be focused on"
## [1144] "limited upward mobility in remote offices"
## [1145] "google is obviously a large company so sometimes it is difficult to feel your individual work is making a difference in the larger scope"
## [1146] "gained lbs everyone is smart so not so easy to stand out headcount has not slowed for years over crowded"
## [1147] "long learning progress of infrastructure"
## [1148] "nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing"
## [1149] "there were no cons great job"
## [1150] "so many politics promotions based on popularity not aptitude"
## [1151] "internal code base is huge it takes long time to get familiar with it promotion system is a bit flaky and is not refocused on impact rather than quality"
## [1152] "there are not that many women working at google or in leadership positions there this negatively affects the team dynamics for both men and women women reading this apply aim high you can do it"
## [1153] "takes a while to get things done because of the size of the company you need to make sure noone else is working on what you are working on and even if they are you can still do it anyway if you think you are better at politics"
## [1154] "lack of people development short term focus okrs questionable leadership"
## [1155] "none google was an amazing place to work"
## [1156] "work life balance can vary significantly depending on what team you work on processes can be overly bureaucratic at times the promotions process can be pretty opaque"
## [1157] "it is become bigger and layered most of the time you do not know which part you are working on within the huge system"
## [1158] "politics process now means that the company moves more slowly that before"
## [1159] "no option to work from remote office"
## [1160] "getting big competitors might be nimbler talented colleagues also make it harder to get promoted"
## [1161] "i think there are no cons here unless i lied and i do not wanna do that"
## [1162] "very exhausted less benefits etc"
## [1163] "commute hours is alleviated by riding on the shuttle but it is still hrs overcrowding open office is somewhat distracting"
## [1164] "a lot of tedious work and some off the people are not so great"
## [1165] "sometimes too big and complicated to navigate very inwardly focused"
## [1166] "like any organization there are internal politics that need to be navigated some play this well some do not making sure you align yourself on the right person s good side can be tricky"
## [1167] "opportunity for vertical movement is scarce hiring practices have led to hiring candidates based on who has the best resume rather than who is the best person for the job culture of ladder climbing slows down productivity and leads to a lot of people being stepped on"
## [1168] "nothing was really wrong it was great"
## [1169] "google is now a large company so there is a fair amount of bureaucracy and processes in place which can slow things down promotions are harder to come by but this is natural for any company of this size google is heavily email centric and so you better be ready for + emails a day and sometimes an implicit expectation to be on email during off hours"
## [1170] "i would say that the only thing i can say would be a con working for google would be if you did not work for them anymore"
## [1171] "hours varied upper management can be tricky"
## [1172] "not really any cons about working here"
## [1173] "has gained a bit of bureaucracy around actually shipping software but not too bad and most of it is intended to prevent wild west coding"
## [1174] "your experience may vary depending on team manager etc if you are passive about your career growth it may not match the trajectory you hope for while better at it than most its simply a very large company with the accompanying bureacracies"
## [1175] "none that i can think off well maybe a long commute from the city"
## [1176] "too much work lot of pressure"
## [1177] "salary is fair work is not challenging enough experiences vary in different teams some teams are good while some teams are not my manager is not nice to me he did not trust me and did not give me fair reviews he did not give me enough help either in my work or in my career development i will not recommend my team to any of my friend"
## [1178] "too many people imposter syndrome inducing no symmetry is prohect complexity among interns on different teams it is google"
## [1179] "huge bureaucracy with a company this big there is specialized roles and process for everything definitely not an intimate community and can take forever to get approvals for what seems the smallest thing"
## [1180] "some of the work can be rather mundane it is an advertising company at the core"
## [1181] "constant travel devices shut down sometimes"
## [1182] "given the size it is challenging to move up in role and sometimes hard to feel your direct impact on the business"
## [1183] "turned into a big company"
## [1184] "work life balance is not good"
## [1185] "everyone is so busy that it is hard to connect or make friends at work"
## [1186] "the work is tough and you are surrounded by people that are smarter than you it can be overwhelming but it really brings out the best in you"
## [1187] "you do not get your own office when you work it is mostly an open floor plan"
## [1188] "more diversity would be nice"
## [1189] "big company political a lot of red tape"
## [1190] "there are no major complaints"
## [1191] "tedious work do the dame work everyday do not feel important in this company the company runs the same way with or without me"
## [1192] "the work can be somewhat monotonous and transactional depending on your specialization"
## [1193] "has become very political career growth is much slower comp is not great"
## [1194] "lack of leadership direction lazslo s book is great reading but not all the concepts are really fully practiced at google"
## [1195] "sometimes people come to google and think they are better than everyone else and that is not the spirit of google sometimes people get self entitled and it stinks"
## [1196] "conducting a lot of events on campus"
## [1197] "changing the way things are done takes hard work and lots of time burnout is common but not a sign of weakness"
## [1198] "upper management tends to micromanage and they keep adding responsibilities to job expectations proper training is generally not provided"
## [1199] "your happiness depend a lot on your team dynamic and manager some managers can be very pushy or bring bad work culture from their previous employment"
## [1200] "working in mountain view living nearby is undesirable but living someplace desirable means a + minute commute"
## [1201] "there wasnt really any cons that i can talk about it was overall a great experience and im glad i got to be apart of it"
## [1202] "not enough pay but i could get better at marketing"
## [1203] "its a big company so its sometimes slow and sometimes very fast paced which can be time consuming"
## [1204] "preventative only health insurance for contractors which is effectively no insurance at all i had to buy my own"
## [1205] "company is getting big and lost some of the original culture"
## [1206] "sudden budget cut outcomes that you face without any prior notification"
## [1207] "there really are not too many downsides maybe one would be that everyone else there is also smart and it is hard to really stand out as being great"
## [1208] "work life balance can be an issue"
## [1209] "it is big really big sometimes too decentralized"
## [1210] "nothing bad free food and nice working culture"
## [1211] "rat race nerd culture arrogance"
## [1212] "bureaucratic you constantly have to go above beyond what is expected of you on your ladder or else you can not get promoted"
## [1213] "sometimes loaded with work and extra hours will be required you must not get behind or you will definitely have to put in extra hours"
## [1214] "the hours were super long and stressful the work was super duper hard and sometimes i could not handle it i would be prepared to bust your butt if u work for google because it is a big company"
## [1215] "long hours of work often find myself bringing home work to finish it its fine if you love to coding and bring it home and do it often there too"
## [1216] "hectic schedule for the bay area"
## [1217] "there are no cons as of today so many things to be grateful for"
## [1218] "intern community not as strong in remote offices can get stuck working on boring projects time to get ramped up on systems unique to google is large real work is not expected for full time employees for a few months"
## [1219] "moving up the ladder can be much slower than it should be tendency to value long term goals leads to a fair amount of technical debt that is not rewarded when payed off"
## [1220] "you work this is not a job with weekends off i read the reviews of everyone on here and they cry about having to work on weekends cause google hints about it but does not enforce it or you have to get in good with your direct supervisor divorces quality of life people crying cockiness in the work place promotes competitiveness which in turn brings results toughen up people did you think you were going to be making a six figure salary and not work for it yes you work but it balances out perks and a company that is going to be around in the years to come like the saying goes if you can do better go else where everyone has gotten way to spoiled and soft people need to look around and see what other jobs people are working and look at yours then be grateful there is a hell of a lot worse"
## [1221] "the commute from san francisco sucks but the alternative is to live in the south bay which also sucks and either way rents are terrible"
## [1222] "lots of type a people at times you can run into cliques and things can become political that is probably true of all large organizations"
## [1223] "i have never seen a normal and smart manager their all have their limits or issues sometimes you will work your really hard and nobody will care and you will have no return on your professional investment promotion process is a real joke the peer review process is not the one that matters actually somewhat lower quality people compared to before the new recruits are in general less smart food is definitively going down big time but this is still free so you cannot complain too much right perks going down there were better before"
## [1224] "too big lots of politics all the decisions get made in california and not in satellite offices"
## [1225] "stressful intense and frustrating at times"
## [1226] "preferencias de sitios para citas en interner"
## [1227] "no office privacy gossip poor work life balance unless you remain on campus work from home discouraged performance management too frequent and subjective"
## [1228] "honestly nothing everything was amazing"
## [1229] "so large its hard to get recognition for hard work sometimes"
## [1230] "not being treated as an equal employee when contractors contribute same if not more than regular full time employees very discouraging"
## [1231] "hope i can have longer time internship in google"
## [1232] "not too many downsides upward mobility is hard though"
## [1233] "small part of a large company"
## [1234] "few bad managers to deal with"
## [1235] "coworkers talk too much about how much they like google"
## [1236] "there is almost no room to move around and the contract i am under does not have a good conversion rate"
## [1237] "reorgs can get rearranged and moved around"
## [1238] "google is the ogrelord of companies"
## [1239] "the company is too big therefore some things are slow"
## [1240] "expensive place to live salary is good but trying to buy a house out here is brutal"
## [1241] "the commute and the sheer size"
## [1242] "none really but i guess they could work on the hours"
## [1243] "too many lines of code"
## [1244] "large company with lots of bureaucracy rigid rules when it comes to promotions pay increases"
## [1245] "slow development cycle as incredibly inter dependent on a lot of teams and people projects can succumb to normal pitfalls of a big company"
## [1246] "for interns converting to full time it is annoying that you have to sign an offer before getting matched with a team"
## [1247] "you actually were employees and gsx employees receive none of the google campus benefits"
## [1248] "so big that its tough to feel like you make a material contribution"
## [1249] "it is a large company so you can expect to work on a relatively narrow problem while office politics is not bad it does occasionally frustrate with projects getting moved around without consultation of rank and file employees"
## [1250] "big company issues bureaucracy etc lack of growth promo opps some lack of vision execution at the top travel to office"
## [1251] "despite what is official the work expected of you and thus the hours that go into the job are ridiculous and not one that you can expect any sane company to expect"
## [1252] "i can not think on any downsides as i really enjoyed my time there"
## [1253] "not very inspiring big company feel lots of hierarchy"
## [1254] "some bureaucracy for decision making"
## [1255] "a tight work schedule with many all nighter"
## [1256] "calls customers and sales and software"
## [1257] "massive company with an increasing amount of bureaucracy really difficult do accomplish anything unless you are good at navigating a big company"
## [1258] "google has no cons at all"
## [1259] "like any super large company tier work can get stale and boring no clear ladder path is the sales marketing team"
## [1260] "public image seems to be problematic"
## [1261] "lots of politics sometimes people get promoted who do not deserve it"
## [1262] "i would never work their again it was awful"
## [1263] "you can only be a small part of a big machine"
## [1264] "work life balance is challenging but is heavily encouraged"
## [1265] "keep you as a temp for a long period of time not as organized as you would expect from a high tech company"
## [1266] "with time it becomes more like a large company with inertia and all the stuff that is associated with it"
## [1267] "can feel too big at times making it difficult to get things done quickly"
## [1268] "work hard and nothing personal"
## [1269] "there are no cons about working at google"
## [1270] "some times when you work at a big company things are hard man or woman i do not judge bro"
## [1271] "the amount of work load"
## [1272] "at some point in your tenure with google it will become clear that you live in an organization that is engineered to keep you numb well fed and scared of the outside world this maybe should be listed under pros since you will gain a sense of empathy for hobbits cows and children in cults you will cope with onsite yoga or by spending your bonus on new teslas the feeling will endure the problem with google is that it thinks it is pixar fresh zany innovative when it is actually disney bloated iterative a little creepy do you have a really fat mortgage to pay off from that mission fixer upper no then find a job somewhere where you will actually use your brain and have an impact"
## [1273] "it was contract and i could not stay longer"
## [1274] "being full time you get many more benefits and a lot more respect for your ideas"
## [1275] "company is too big not sure about the collaboration between different group"
## [1276] "supply and demand applies everyone s very talented so the ability to achieve is worthless those who excel are those who monopolize and hoard scarcer resources approvals visibility office politics is of the job"
## [1277] "huge company lots of energy needed to get things done if you are not an engineer get ready to feel like a second class citizen"
## [1278] "it is a big company and to have a big impact you need to apply some effort promotion process is you basically pr and promote yourself again some effort nobody will promote you and you need to work on it yourself collecting success stories and writing an essay why you should be promoted crowded office a lot of people are being hired for mtv ca office high compensation is offset by huge rent or real estate prices or choose long commute healthcare benefits are getting worse and worse because company is unwilling to pay for cadillac tax"
## [1279] "none at for this time period"
## [1280] "the management does not review the staff performance in impertial method"
## [1281] "not many career options outside of software engineering"
## [1282] "most managers are really terrible you have to work to find the right team"
## [1283] "now at full time employees its not as nimble as it was when it was smaller however there still are a lot of opportunities to work on small projects like in google for work or google life sciences"
## [1284] "at a certain level some of the business units have very little realistic upward mobility it is not that you are not good it is just that there are not any available jobs that being said when you are making a bunch of money how much will that bother you it is up to you to figure that out"
## [1285] "there are no down sides"
## [1286] "becoming a big company loss of google culture in some areas"
## [1287] "mountain view campus is very remote interns sometimes feel like second class citizens some internal projects are secretive and that hurts the culture"
## [1288] "one downside is that they are always hiring new people theres a lot of changes within the company and sometimes it feels that you do not have a boss and its easily to get confuse"
## [1289] "seniority and hard work means nothing to them no growth opportunity plays favorites totally a labor job no benefits"
## [1290] "it is hard to move up if you are already mid to sr manager"
## [1291] "big corporation poor work life balance"
## [1292] "you still have to go to work but its really not so bad thats life everyday basic stresses that could occur but the balance is positive not every day so sunnny"
## [1293] "cubicles are horrible there are a lot of distractions when you are sitting at your desk putting on a headphone does not help when people enter and exit the door about feet away from where your cubicle is"
## [1294] "very low pay for non swes"
## [1295] "it is a big company and it is definitely starting to feel like one too quality is slowly but surely dipping over time basically google is going through more mature growing pains"
## [1296] "lower pay as compared to rest of company overwhelming workload"
## [1297] "it is hard to feel impact of myself in such a huge company"
## [1298] "disconnected from average consumers products come second to monetization by ads"
## [1299] "a lot of employees hard to balance life at work and home average management"
## [1300] "no reason to ever leave campus for the socially challenged since everything is provided on site"
## [1301] "the marketing organization includes a lot of people who do not really have the skills to contribute in a positive way at times these individuals are in influential positions and can significantly impede the progress of the company moving up the ladder is extremely difficult if not futile unless you dedicate yourself to navigating workplace politics instead of being productive"
## [1302] "everyone is really serious about their work lots of competition stress sometimes"
## [1303] "poor management there is really weird politics on this team scheduling is horrible there is absolutely no work life balance you get your schedule days before you start working it for the week and there is no pto since it is an hourly job management does not treat you well there is little acknowledgment for great ideas and great performance there is a uniform and it is not comfortable there is no room for real growth this is definitely an in between job they say they are all about transparency but there is actually very little transparency this is not a you will work weird hours and you will not have weekends off instead you will have a random monday or wednesday off and rarely a consecutive two days off you will be penalized for requesting a weekend off meaning that you will receive less hours this is the type of job you get when you just really need a job but be prepared to be treated badly disrespected unappreciated asked to do ridiculous things in bad weather conditions etc"
## [1304] "decision making or prioritization process can be much improved velocity is hindered due to increased layers of management company has grown huge and it is trying hard not to become a typical boring corporation really miss those old scrappy days you might expect to make a big impact when joining this company but most likely you will be spending all your time doing incremental improvements"
## [1305] "none that i can think of but i need at least words so I will babble for a little bit"
## [1306] "no really cons too big"
## [1307] "can get a little bit closed from the outside environment need to maintain the pulse of what is happening outside"
## [1308] "the company has matured a k a slowed down over the years it is not really surprising given its current size still much better than microsoft though"
## [1309] "it is competitive and as it is grown it is become much more bureaucratic you often need approvals from fifteen different stakeholders half of which you never knew you needed to consult before finalizing any project"
## [1310] "getting big quite competitive on good opportunities a lot of geek type persons"
## [1311] "as the company is getting bigger there might be some politics going on"
## [1312] "it is a company full of extremely smart and driven people and as they struggle to keep operating costs down while maintaining exceptional revenue performance this has a negative impact on work life balance many people are over stressed and over worked this one con can outweigh many of the pro s"
## [1313] "google is getting big and slow as you rise through the company you will find that more and more of your day is spend in endless meetings and wading through nonstop e mail chains there are far too many stakeholders involved in every decision and there is often no clear owner for a particular project the left hand often does not know what the right hand is doing shades of microsoft from the late s a company that is phenomenally profitable but undisciplined and becoming unwieldy many google employees have essentially checked out and come in at and leave at and are never challenged"
## [1314] "it is an engineering company end of story im from a background where sales people rule so very not the case"
## [1315] "none may be its would be good if its onsite"
## [1316] "management refused to talk to you since you were a temp and you have to be a temp for a year or more much more sometimes before you can get hired on"
## [1317] "company needs to make some changes decisions to avoid becoming microsoft from years ago bloated political etc"
## [1318] "very fast paced you have to be smart to keep up with everyone else and invest yourself in the company"
## [1319] "big company hard to move the needle working outside of mountain view is challenging"
## [1320] "let me stress that this is a great company but the room for growth is minimal i was there four years and left because i felt like i personally had very little impact on the company"
## [1321] "if you want to excel no one forces you to you have to put in long hours and go beyond expectations helping other team members out and participating in projects outside of your team it can get tough to balance work and play when you are working this hard but really who gets a job at google to be lazy"
## [1322] "for better or for worse google is very bottom up while it means complete freedom in your choice of tools and process it also means it can be organizationally chaotic"
## [1323] "location compensation goal alignment"
## [1324] "demanding on regular basis some management skills may be helpful to avoid burnout"
## [1325] "nothing really that can be a con"
## [1326] "if changing job types the transfer process can be a terrible experience so e areas quite political not enough parking in mtv"
## [1327] "experience will depend on the office you are in and office dynamics can change tremendously as it grows"
## [1328] "difficult for career growth harder to shift between teams then it seems"
## [1329] "it is hard to learn the ropes you are given a long leash and plenty of benefit of the doubt if you screw something up but there is sooo much to learn and the formal training is not all that extensive though the training sessions are great being able to thrive in ambiguity is a must you are expected to be autonomous which is great but it is tough to learn the ropes and when you are new you want to perform well and make an impact it is hard to do that at first it is good to trust your management and team and do what you can have self confidence in your value and go find a way to contribute even if it seems small or under the radar"
## [1330] "limited career advancement especially for people starting out in their careers very difficult to explore opportunities outside of human resources once you are slotted in this department at the beginning of your career"
## [1331] "do not eat too much food"
## [1332] "finance at google was the worst job I have ever had the department is dysfunctional understaffed and lacks basic process controls and systems support that you would expect at such an established company it is oracle version stopped being supported financials do not tie across systems there is a complete lack of governance around core processes so every department manager leader does something entirely different and guess what no one gets along or agrees if you can land on a happy team it can be a happy ride but there is limited career growth you are getting tier finance skills because when so much cash shows up no one cares about a model and the rest of the organization views you as the weakest link if it is your way to get in great but do not view finance as a long term success path it is a cess pool of repetitive boring work that google does not have the discipline or the patience to optimize outsource or eliminate you will feel like you are wasting your life have an insight do not share it some eng lead will just ignore you anyway"
## [1333] "it is impossible to have any cons"
## [1334] "transferring job ladders is near impossible"
## [1335] "not the best place to start your career but a great place to refine and grow your experience working your way up in the level process from entry level to manager level not a director will take more than a few years in the larger business organizations when new hires come on they can get slotted above people who have been working through the system for a while"
## [1336] "no cons of this place of work"
## [1337] "nothing to show as cons"
## [1338] "none really to be honest"
## [1339] "sometimes things can get a little bit stressful if you do not like your job then you will feel miserable at google the people here are very nice and polite or at least the people that i worked with and they will not hurt you if you make a mistake"
## [1340] "i love change and a fast paced environment but if these are not for you google could leave you out of breath"
## [1341] "not great pay startups better"
## [1342] "can be difficult to work in a small distributed office limited career growth potential near constant change new managers re organizations etc can make things feel like they are constantly shifting underneath you and you have no footing"
## [1343] "hard to think of one"
## [1344] "nothing what is there not to like about working at google"
## [1345] "too many work hours too much to do on campus"
## [1346] "have to work for more than hours a day and work on weekend sometimes"
## [1347] "sales is the ugly stepchild at google and we often feel like second glass citizens"
## [1348] "can be difficult to move up being promoted at google takes a bit of luck in regard to how much internal prestige your assigned team has if you do not love what you do you will be miserable at google whatever your duties are expect to have them on your mind the work life balance is very skewed toward work"
## [1349] "when i started at google in it was a much smaller company by the time i left in it started to feel a lot more big company ish with more bureaucracy and politics they did a good job of trying to combat that as best they could but at some point the reality is just that they are huge this is not necessarily a bad thing if you like working in big companies but i was seeking something smaller and more mellow"
## [1350] "it can take forever to get to work because there are so many people working in a place with basically just two access roads you will feel like just a number at times promotion is pretty much bs"
## [1351] "alot of finished work expected of you in small amounts of time bonuses poorly distributed not great work life balance most employees are workaholics"
## [1352] "if you are a technical person or have a very unique skill great place to be but if you are a support function of any sort do not expect to get too much in the way of recognition"
## [1353] "it is a very big company and it does not always feel like you are contributing a lot they also tend not to promote from within if you are interning in mtv the taxes can be pretty brutal"
## [1354] "i did not really have anything bad to say about working here it is a great company some of the work maybe at a fast past but it is easy to keep up"
## [1355] "as tour teammates are also very clever the challenge is to show ypur results in order to get a promotion"
## [1356] "none a truly amazing company"
## [1357] "there are no cons here"
## [1358] "management and directors may have little experience most recommendations do not get heard will continue repeating failed methods"
## [1359] "being able to keep up with the technology industry can be a challenge but having the right sets of conversations cures that"
## [1360] "uninspired projects and mediocre middle management"
## [1361] "you work mostly with google technologies and its a steep learning curve before you start getting productive"
## [1362] "company is becoming more bureaucratic as time goes on and company size increases"
## [1363] "work life balance too many meetings emails big company politics slower career trajectory sustaining work underappreciated noisy open space environment traffic"
## [1364] "the scope of work is a little narrow they want you to be an expert in your area and you do not get a lot of opportunity to expand your skillset with that it is hard to make a significant impact outside of your core group"
## [1365] "wish we could get paid for our hard work"
## [1366] "to many people doing nothing"
## [1367] "was a contract employer benefits were watered down pay was dismal"
## [1368] "it can feel like disneyland with a dark side they throw all these great perks and benefits at you but it covers up a cutthroat feel almost to it super high expectations that go up each quarter"
## [1369] "narrow roles since the org is so large challenging nearly impossible to get promoted given that the employee base is full of over achievers managers frequently change every few months"
## [1370] "can be hard to climb the corporate ladder"
## [1371] "snobby childish one upmanship work culture endless meetings large campus creating an in crowd mentality it is a rotating door of temps contractors"
## [1372] "the layers of bureaucracy is growing and getting things done at google is like running through water while there is ever increasing pressure to produce more"
## [1373] "getting too big and losing the startup feel and culture"
## [1374] "coworkers talk about the food endlessly like it is the best and central part of their day because it is lots of nih and google specific libraries which folks can not take with them when they leave the outside world operates very differently and with different technologies and people will not learn much of that here unfortunately lack of freedom to choose technologies a lot of solutions exist on the outside but there is often a homegrown competitor that we are forced to use so it will make that other team look good lots of folks write libraries and services just to get promoted no node js support in production this is especially painful for aqui hires because many startups these days use node then they find they need to re write everything to integrate with google checkin + code review process is super bloated anal retentive and obsessive this slows down development time considerably this is especially painful for aqui hires where no one on the team has readability so you have to make friends within google just to get your code checked in really really frustrating and the feeling that productivity has gone down immensely still not a good environment for frontend engineers if you even hint that you like javascript and css people will look at you like you have brain damage not a lot of the engineering culture values fe work although that is a self admitted problem that they are trying to change fiscal irresponsibility hiring rate within the last few years has been out of control and unsustainable there is a boom time now but this is going to hurt and result in many layoffs when the next crash happens engineering culture also listed as a pro above specifically non frontend engineering this is reflected in the ridiculous interview process it would be good to get more diversity of thought and perspectives not just a hard line engineering perspective so many decisions are based on quantitative data alone which is a mistake if a company wants to push the boundaries and wants to be innovative entitlement and elitism it is not everyone of course high cost of living around main campus you may think you are getting paid a lot but the cost of living in the area matches that salary"
## [1375] "very large highly political opaque promotion process elitist"
## [1376] "bureaucracy is unfortunately extremely prevalent"
## [1377] "have to be energetic all the time"
## [1378] "boring work too many people too much routine work on moving data around in fact many people do not follow formal culture care about their career launch good review then about creating perfect solutions and technology"
## [1379] "easy to feel inferior when surrounded by so many intelligent coworkers impostor syndrome is quite common but also acknowledged"
## [1380] "losing feeling of reality outside"
## [1381] "getting big lots of politics very dispersed leadership"
## [1382] "you have to be able to deal with great amounts of ambiguity around goals and how to get there google is a best fit for self motivated out of the box thinking people"
## [1383] "do not know about the cons"
## [1384] "i think it is perfect"
## [1385] "i have nothing to share for con"
## [1386] "un focussed and way too many duplicative efforts the company culture is bias towards action act before thinking and re adjust this is not an environment for folks who like to be thoughtful"
## [1387] "lots of bureaucracy and murky waters code for general ambiguity when it comes to promotions ladders etc standard problems at large flat tech companies"
## [1388] "size of company means less opportunity for autonomy i felt like just another cog in the machine towards the end calibrations punish some good employees unfairly"
## [1389] "lots of people you need to know in upper management you also work long days which really take a toll on your family life"
## [1390] "overall onboarding process there seems to be a disconnect for new people coming on board lack of training and direction the company is so big and complicated internal navigation can be rough"
## [1391] "only to step up and finding new online facilities discover more for all the google facility users to take my self on the higher level of the company"
## [1392] "too much politics no matter how much you try to do your best it does not beat office politics no promotion unless you know how to play politics"
## [1393] "it is a big company now very much focused on silicon valley other locations less involved large custom codebase limited transferable skills"
## [1394] "career ceiling for non engineers limits opportunity"
## [1395] "there is none to share"
## [1396] "the onboarding process is extremely weak there is only a cursory introduction to the products via mindless education videos presentations and web quizzes and virtually no consideration given to lack of knowledge of an entirely new industry sector then you are quickly presented to others including clients as an expert far far too early shadowing and mentoring someone with experience until you attain some level of proficiency is non existent everything is do it yourself despite the student being in the worst position to judge what they do or do not know or need to know"
## [1397] "somewhat random promotion process flawed interviewing process no know alternative there i referred a lot of very good candidates only one was eventually hired"
## [1398] "trying hard to maintain the start up culture but coping being a mature organization"
## [1399] "nothing in particular that stands out"
## [1400] "all the low hanging fruit has been plucked they also do not care whether they hire nice people or not"
## [1401] "as company grows there are more layers of decision making and it can be tougher to get things done promotions get increasingly difficult with each level you need to be on a team with a supportive manager if you are not in a role you enjoy and thrive at it can be hard to switch opportunities for advancement at remote offices can be limited"
## [1402] "some business areas may not reflect the values that made google great as it was growing but those shifts may be necessary as new business areas are explored"
## [1403] "like any large company the leaders frequently are out of touch with the individual contributors many times over the past year it has felt like leadership has been dismissing the sentiment of its employees also the promotion process largely depends on your manger not on your performance"
## [1404] "layers of management being imported from outside who do not understand the corporate ethos or culture changes for the sake of change and justifying a middle management role lack of business maturity lack of structured vision lack of fiscal responsibility restrictive career mobility between job ladders"
## [1405] "all housing near hq is priced for the top wage earners at google so you can not buy a house and renting will eat your entire paycheck google s coding environment is designed for the lowest common denominator and twisted to support a nearly infinitely large codebase of your time will be waiting for spaghetti code to build fighting code review trolls following google code style trying to figure out bone headed non standard architectures debugging your google modified world wading through endless obsolete documents and dealing with the politics of egomaniacs pushing their dumb new framework storage language whatever in an attempt to gain recognition within a nearly infinite megacorp google uses almost nothing from the outside world so almost nothing learned can be applied to your career elsewhere there are insufferable koolaid guzzlers saying they love the startup culture as if it was normal to write lines of code in a day wait a week for it to be committed and then attend a party of strangers texting while a computerized dj blasts retro pop music for all of this effort regardless of the official project title what you are really doing is enabling the creepy collection of marketing data"
## [1406] "sometimes need to work overtime"
## [1407] "light on processes everything can be a one off"
## [1408] "sometimes very chaotic environment lots of very young new people who do not always know the best way to do things"
## [1409] "it was frustrating to often see your projects being sidelined ultimately this drive me from google"
## [1410] "they focus too much on growing their mountain view ca office"
## [1411] "for me the most difficult aspect of working at google was the culture which tended toward elitist both technically and politically the sense of competition is keen not necessarily because of the formal review process but just because hanging around some of the smartest engineers in the world every day can be intimidating i frequently encountered coworkers who like me felt themselves to be the dumbest googler no one wants to write inferior code or to be thought of as doing so and for me the pressure in a public facing role was even greater politically speaking the culture leans hard to the left and as a conservative christian i sometimes felt marginalized by the conversation taking place on emails g+ and in the office still my immediate team members were always friendly and easy to get along with and i would not trade my time at google for any other company"
## [1412] "mediocre pay since it was a contract job could have been better"
## [1413] "managers often far removed from day to day constant re orgs more importance often put on meeting scheduled launch dates than releasing finished product"
## [1414] "large company can get lost in the crowd"
## [1415] "middle management is ineffective unfair and self absorbed"
## [1416] "many people become too comfortable and complacement"
## [1417] "company is growing significantly so it is easy to feel lost in the fray hierarchy not as flat as i thought it was going to be a lot of red tape that comes with growing pains"
## [1418] "very large company low contribution"
## [1419] "you need to be very bright to keep up with your peers"
## [1420] "work life balance you might feel impostor syndrome for being surrounded by awesome people"
## [1421] "managers are very political and hierarchical"
## [1422] "hard to move to different groups or different functional ladders it is almost easier to quit and then go through the recruiting process again because they have a process for that and non existent for internal transfers"
## [1423] "founders stepping back influx of consultants culture declining"
## [1424] "not much bad to say"
## [1425] "tremendous growth and scale has resulted in certain processes becoming bureaucratic and muddled at times trying to do too many things at once need to re focus"
## [1426] "lots of lateral movement not as many opps outside of headquarters"
## [1427] "too big a little lose focus now top level management has some business sense issue"
## [1428] "too many people and too much boring work"
## [1429] "it is a big company now and you need to deal with many dependencies and manage complex cross team relationships"
## [1430] "work life balance when scaling for growth"
## [1431] "there are none worth mentioning imho"
## [1432] "i do not see anything negative in the comany"
## [1433] "it does not have the start up feel of other tech companies but honestly it is more refreshing than an actual con"
## [1434] "bosses one task different results horrible leadership and communications process internally dysfunctional and misleading additionally they do not honor written contracts to pay employees"
## [1435] "too big stock refresh is not great"
## [1436] "there are really no cons to speak of it is a very fun place to work would recommend to anyone in human resources"
## [1437] "a lot of priorities to balance"
## [1438] "big company too many people on the corporate ladder"
## [1439] "company is huge and increasingly corporate despite efforts to remain scrappy very easy to get lost in the fray if you are not one to constantly tout your successes finding the right team makes a huge difference in your success a poor manager may taint your experience respect at work is an issue work life balance though touted is extremely difficult to achieve especially for those commuting from sf or san jose to mountain view on a daily basis traffic both north and south is increasingly terrible"
## [1440] "google is a big company now it is not as nimble as it used to be and I am not sure that salaries are as competitive as they were when i joined"
## [1441] "it is not a small company at all it definitely does not have a start up feel there are so many different departments it is difficult to keep track and they do not always coordinate well with each other lots of duplicated work wasted effort"
## [1442] "processes and politics are sadly more and more of an issue"
## [1443] "the number of engineering projects outside of hq seems to be low and can be taken away at any given point in time because they decided to move everything to hq"
## [1444] "many many intelligent and unique people you are constantly surrounded by that can overwhelm you"
## [1445] "unpredictable work hours and schedule"
## [1446] "this job stole my soul and sold it to a faceless corporation"
## [1447] "there truly are not any cons here to report"
## [1448] "single mothers in near poverty as work colleagues"
## [1449] "company getting bigger and more bureaucratic"
## [1450] "the numerous reorgs on the non engineering side have left a lot of people disenchanted in many of those reorgs people were not being recognized as individuals but more just cogs that need to be put in place for google to build the next $bn business google talks a good talk and employees believe management however over the years employee s expectations have become so high that when an individual is in a poor job situation they feel like google owes them something better so you have people who sit in a role team dept thinking the situation will get better or that management has a good plan and they will be fine once they give it a few months in reality that person is either overqualified for the role or a bad fit but are too complacent to change many employees can not even fathom leaving google so they sit there and hope it works out and will figure it out once the new dream role opens up but that does not happen and so they wait it out until the next reorg the cycle continues"
## [1451] "you might not be able to make yourself stronger due to your work at google is fixed"
## [1452] "google became evil they have become money hungry"
## [1453] "none that i can think of"
## [1454] "flat hierarchy extremely big company whatever you do is hard to get recognized"
## [1455] "too relaxed too many paper work"
## [1456] "lots of middle management so there are some great managers but plenty of bad ones"
## [1457] "you occasionally feel tension between what the job ladder will reward you for doing vs what would really be the right thing for the company"
## [1458] "crowded frequent project cancellations and management changes"
## [1459] "too stressful it is a competitive environment where expectations are high"
## [1460] "no major cons just takes getting used to"
## [1461] "can not think of one at the present time"
## [1462] "you have to give in a lot of extra hours when you are working on a project sometimes you might end up getting some work done at home this can be a good thing sometimes"
## [1463] "limited horizontal and vertical mobility"
## [1464] "company is starting to feel too corporate and losing initial googliness extremely hard to navigate through difficulty knowing what is available in other organizations within the company career development and coaching"
## [1465] "working overtime and promotions not easily achieved"
## [1466] "some of the challenges is the lack of diversity everyone seems to be a white male which is typical in the tech industry"
## [1467] "did not get the attention for my work"
## [1468] "gtech is a highly political org with many more layers of hierarchy than other orgs eng product marketing etc this culture spurs unhealthy competition between co workers who should be collaborating it also does not make use of individual contributors skill sets resulting in smart people doing low level things"
## [1469] "suburban office location is quite dull cost of living is extremely high total compensation is just okay considering the latter the salary however is just plain mediocre you often learn about the cool things google does after it leaks to the media not internally many products and positions lack excitement and attention the sales partnerships side of the company will always play second fiddle to engineering no surprise there many of the sales jobs are difficult to recommend to bright high potential candidates loud and sometimes distracting bull pen style offices google is a massive company the size can be disheartening"
## [1470] "definitely felt like a smaller fish in a big pond not used to that although they have invested mightily in developer productivity there are still a lot of impediments part of why i left was i did not have faith passion about the product strategy i was working within will not say why i left bottom line is I am a very product focused engineer not a technology focused engineer i know that may seem odd but it is true if you want to go to a place and grapple with technical challenges on scales you are unlikely to find elsewhere and are not easily frustrated by capricious product strategy this would be a great place for you just not for me"
## [1471] "no complaints the people really made the experience"
## [1472] "the company is very large so new processes can take a while to get implemented"
## [1473] "there are a lot of internal inefficiencies and chaos resulting from weak leadership flawed in house tools and lack of processes controls people are straining and working long hours just to keep the lights on without much time and energy and motivation left to innovate there are maturity and professionalism deficiencies at many levels i especially hate the lack of ownership at times people expecting you to do their job passivity laziness in planning amateurish presentation skills i thought this was google work dedication clear thinking and attrition are an issue in my org but i am coming from the perspective of global business and not engineering which is the face of google and may be better run"
## [1474] "there was not much i did not like"
## [1475] "focus on quarterly quota makes for short term sales push that can hurt client relationships and longer term strategy sales leads and managers can go from rock stars to borderline performer in quarters all driven by hitting the number the googley we care about our people spirit is hit miss"
## [1476] "the commute from san francisco can be a little long but is rewarding when you get to work here"
## [1477] "sometimes people seem a bit pretentious working with some of these people with large egos could be challenging and dosent make for the best work environment however most of the time the management is very in tune and sought to avoid problems with employees"
## [1478] "it is hard for a company to compete with the cheaper lower quality competition"
## [1479] "slow no high impact opportunity proprietor skill set"
## [1480] "huge company now can get bureaucratic"
## [1481] "a little crowd working is somehow boring"
## [1482] "promotions compensation smaller offices in remote areas difficult to ignore the free snacks too much free food"
## [1483] "no possibility of growth in the company"
## [1484] "company is becoming big and middle management layer is growing"
## [1485] "google is pretty big now sometimes it is hard to tell if any real impact is being made"
## [1486] "sometimes the egos are to much"
## [1487] "hiring process is very challenging"
## [1488] "office politics usually not an issue but the chain of command can be circumvented for individual gains"
## [1489] "housing near the main campus is crushingly expensive without being in a city commuting from sf is a long long way to go every day rewards for current employees can not mathematically match up to rewards for early employees"
## [1490] "do not know enough to comment"
## [1491] "company has grown very big very fast"
## [1492] "very competitive long hours hypocritical"
## [1493] "some of the delivery drivers are frustrating to work with the in store leads act way too entitled because they get to operate the courier phone and give orders"
## [1494] "there are no cons at google"
## [1495] "enjoyed my time with google"
## [1496] "everyone is a snob and california is backwards"
## [1497] "it is a huge company it is hard to stay agile and responsive when you have got employees"
## [1498] "base pay is on the lower end"
## [1499] "not a con as such but u should be very smart all the time"
## [1500] "too many contractors and people without long tenure"
## [1501] "possibly uninteresting projects hard to standout hard to promote because people around you all all very good hard to assume bigger responsibility learning curve flats out quickly after the first two years during which you learn a lot of google infrastructure"
## [1502] "commute to san francisco not a sales organization"
## [1503] "long commute from the city intense high expectations to perform hard to get a promotion"
## [1504] "hard work but it pays"
## [1505] "overwhelming at times long hours long days"
## [1506] "it is getting more political and less performance driven everyone is trying to build their own little armies to justify growth and promotions instead of building great products that users love"
## [1507] "big company inertia lack of visibility in all projects middle managers are pathetic"
## [1508] "not much besides gaining weight"
## [1509] "not many work life balance is what you make of it"
## [1510] "with any big org there is a fair amount of bureaucracy google also does not do a great job of handling low performers you sometimes have to carry your co workers from time to time"
## [1511] "company has gotten too large and lots of red tape to get work done should be more leadership development"
## [1512] "compensation is a bit of a black box but is very competitive to other firms when you lump in all of the other benefits politics can be a bit rough depending on the department you are in"
## [1513] "career management is very hard too many smart people means your talent is often wasted on trivial stuff outside of main campus options for advancement are even more limited"
## [1514] "too big to move process is very slow"
## [1515] "tiny workspace my desk is feet and there is literally no space between my desk and my boss s desk crowded halls full of software engineers"
## [1516] "inexperienced middle management they usually hire degrees over qualifications the inmates run the asylum to a degree which is not always good extremely competitive could also be a pro depending on what you are looking for"
## [1517] "they are constantly raising the bar regarding your expected performance"
## [1518] "large complex byzantine legacy sacred cows"
## [1519] "hard to stand out because everybody so good"
## [1520] "no cons its freaking google why would they have one"
## [1521] "commute is very long growing complexity in internal operations"
## [1522] "long hours too much work"
## [1523] "not growing as fast as it used to be"
## [1524] "management can have a final say in whether projects get launched or not"
## [1525] "life work balance is nonexistent middle management at times has a different agenda from upper management promotions are a moving target and requirement change year to year"
## [1526] "very conservative in some field"
## [1527] "can not change technology easy"
## [1528] "they fire pretty quickly if you are not up to par"
## [1529] "not that many to be honest"
## [1530] "not room for advancement they say to apply for positions however you end up staying in the department"
## [1531] "big google is a big company now red tape abounds and causes frustration and slow work apathy with the size of the company its hard to feel like each individual can make a difference I have seen that play out by people not caring about their role or project this is my biggest worry for google too much apathy"
## [1532] "getting too big and bureaucratic and hence very difficult to have real impact most vps have been around for ~yrs so basically churning old leadership without too much new blood and the old guard are not open to hearing new views and usually surround themselves with like minded folks teams my experience has been in sales ops and support gtech internally are non googley i e reward results vs how these results are achieved this is a top down culture most sr mgrs and directors are not good leaders or people managers lots of cliques politicking and naysayers are quickly rejected off the team google culture is being compromised"
## [1533] "too big hard to grow"
## [1534] "none that i could think of at this time"
## [1535] "lots of bureaucracy software that is only used internally not invented here syndrome and slowly turning into more of a typical large company"
## [1536] "the whole process a little long but ok"
## [1537] "i challenge to doing sale so much"
## [1538] "no cons at all it is been good so far"
## [1539] "it is not perfect there are teams minority which are not pleasant to work"
## [1540] "entry level jobs are not the most exciting albeit manageable"
## [1541] "not many at all to be honest"
## [1542] "no cons because great place to work at"
## [1543] "to be sincere i dont see a con well let me say its different from just building stuff it also xrequires people skills"
## [1544] "some teams may be too big and progression may sometimes be very political high performers are sometimes less rewarded than good story tellers certain employees can be over qualifier for the missions they are given"
## [1545] "limited scope of work as the organizing is very big"
## [1546] "vertical evolution is an uphill climb roles outside of the usa are more skewed towards sales than product"
## [1547] "has not figured out compensation for countries in the emerging markets in asia"
## [1548] "good work need work more to management really to hard"
## [1549] "nothing bad google is full of fun and work"
## [1550] "long hours in the office"
## [1551] "was not paid enough money there"
## [1552] "food offering is not as competitive"
## [1553] "lots of works hard to get time for life"
## [1554] "micromanagement budget cuts requirement to do too many projects just for promotion"
## [1555] "nothing i can say here"
## [1556] "tiring tough dead quiet great"
## [1557] "bureaucracy perf management non eng career rework"
## [1558] "not much to say to be honest"
## [1559] "sometimes senior management undermine staff"
## [1560] "cafeteria is too near to office so peaceful environment it was like heaven for any employee"
## [1561] "i have completed my digital marketing course i am searching job for digital marketing"
## [1562] "too big limited growth opportunities beyond basic management"
## [1563] "as such no cons is there"
## [1564] "work hours could be long"
## [1565] "no cons at this point great experience all round"
## [1566] "the stereotypical issues of tech giants totally apply here management seems to blurt out scandal after scandal stock is not performing as well as competition"
## [1567] "no one i think there is no cons"
## [1568] "yet not faced any problems"
## [1569] "none that i can think of"
## [1570] "makes you want to work all the time"
## [1571] "not the best paymasters in the market"
## [1572] "can feel more corporate at times"
## [1573] "sometimes you canâ\200\231t handle the stress"
## [1574] "huge multinational can be overwhelming"
## [1575] "lots of process and politics getting easy things done at google is hard"
## [1576] "has become hierarchical and lots of politics"
## [1577] "as apprentice itâ\200\231s difficult to find work suited to your interests"
## [1578] "nothing it is really good tbh"
## [1579] "difference of opinion regarding strategy approach from silicon valley and outside the us lacking focus with so many different products projects external pressures"
## [1580] "usually no real responsibility for interns"
## [1581] "long ramp up time to projects"
## [1582] "a lot of lip service to work life balance but in practice the way performance is gauged along with short staffed teams causes people to put in long hours and be available even late at night people leave switch teams after just year of tenure teams and management are still stuck on their way to do things from before google acquired them this causes unhealthy practices which are supposedly absent from larger google like stack ranking to still be used the compensation is not that good considering that they will try to hire you at a lower level compared to your prior experience some of the perks are also weakened or made useless attending external conferences can be expensed only for rd of the cost of the ticket or rd of cost of the ticket only if approved by the manager which in my experience is never granted unlike what happens with google s competitors otherwise you will also have to use your days off to be able to attend the conference putting some severe disincentives for you to attend it is sad to realise that google does so little for their engineers professional development"
## [1583] "it is a different company now its size now clearly charges a price in terms of bureaucracy laggardness and politics decisions now tend to be much less aspirational and more focused on the short term or worse on the optics that you are doing something impactful when often people are not sense of purpose starts to be missing"
## [1584] "there are simply no cons in google"
## [1585] "higher management is one of the worst you will meet in your career extremely toxic workplace"
## [1586] "could use some more mentoring"
## [1587] "do same thing every day"
## [1588] "promotion is hard to get and there is a lot of ambiguity"
## [1589] "badgreat yes no me you"
## [1590] "as the company grows there is more bureaucracy and formality but still not as much for a company this size"
## [1591] "hierarchical and too much politics"
## [1592] "nothing to add at all"
## [1593] "sometimes you feel frustrated working on tech"
## [1594] "there are no cons to be found at google"
## [1595] "it is become a typically huge corporation and the pace of change has slowed drastically if you are looking to be comfortable and move carefully that works if you want to move fast and break things you should find someplace smaller"
## [1596] "no negative downsides from this company"
## [1597] "envirnment less flexiblity"
## [1598] "bulling managers and fault hiding culture"
## [1599] "way too much information and way too hard to get set up first month is basically info overload"
## [1600] "too much work for imployes"
## [1601] "too much pressure and too many abandoned projects"
## [1602] "sometimes too competitive to survive"
## [1603] "used for abusive communication against users"
## [1604] "extra working hours and more than hours"
## [1605] "pr speak is widespread executives use vague cya communication style to me it is like hearing politicians talk transparency has been steadily going down for years you hear about projects when they are announced or leaked several high level execs seem to have a pretty weak ethical compass increasing number of ethical scandals antitrust fines etc internal explanation often weak and unconvincing around these issues lots of talk of being data driven but what is common is data being used to justify whatever fits data slinger s narrative including for myopic goal setting that results in adverse second and third order effects see goodhart s law increasing attitude of engineers just doing whatever they are told forget the do the right thing of old times project and product churn google products are often unfinished and buggy uis changing all the time lots of talk of rewarding product excellence but lots of cynicism about it i do not buy it i do not see the products getting better product managers compete to launch features engineers have increasingly less power to make product decisions if you are more senior you might get pushed to do management the old days of having a technical individual career option seems over in many teams at least if you want to get promoted internal frameworks tend to be overengineered and complex because of many disparate use cases and legacy easy things take a long time as a result critical internal tools can be unstaffed while projects that go nowhere how many chat apps can have massive headcount crowded noisy open floor offices with little privacy i heard some folks outside engineering do not even get a fixed desk anymore ai seems much more important than privacy products and strategy seem aligned with getting google more and more data privacy unfriendly defaults uis etc might make you uncomfortable if you work on a consumer product"
## [1606] "there are no cons there is very good"
## [1607] "hard process not fair enough"
## [1608] "nothing is bad in the company"
## [1609] "they choose an out of the box employees"
## [1610] "sometimes we need to stay late to deliver the work"
## [1611] "try new experiences good company"
## [1612] "none so far all is good"
## [1613] "too many hours not enough holidays pay too low"
## [1614] "no cons everything was good"
## [1615] "easy to replace as the team is full of super stars"
## [1616] "would like more ownership on projects"
## [1617] "quite stressful at times but still rewarding"
## [1618] "stressful after long periods good for short stints"
## [1619] "management indifference to political intolerance from coworkers that do not accept people from outside their dogma"
## [1620] "we have to do alot of analytics"
## [1621] "changing priorities teams all the time"
## [1622] "is good place to start with the best"
## [1623] "no comment cuz it was perfect"
## [1624] "lots of oppurtunities for growth"
## [1625] "less participation in project decisions"
## [1626] "nothing i have experienced google is so good"
## [1627] "outsourced high performance requirements"
## [1628] "salary cheater abusive management irregular or sometimes half salary pay al time salary issues management have little idea of how to tackle good employee no commitement misleading activities in all over india no increment even after working for almost months at a streach"
## [1629] "politics hierarchy america focused work life balance"
## [1630] "no cons found in this company"
## [1631] "motivation and an ambition for me to work abroad"
## [1632] "i was hired under the impression that the cloud team i was joining was transparent and supported by leaders there is no flexibility no work life balance though it is said that is when you do something you were asked to you are then in hot water for not doing something different expectations change without warning and management does not have your back when it comes to the hard work you have done because they need to focus on how they look rather than how you look to the rest of the upper levels"
## [1633] "none that i can think of so far"
## [1634] "cant progress to higher positions"
## [1635] "no idea about it honestly"
## [1636] "keep the pace in staying great in so many different directions can be overwhelming one needs to develop a sense of focus pretty early"
## [1637] "sometime i still feel even after multiple years in the company the impostor syndrome"
## [1638] "google runs like a cult no life no time for family once you in you live for google"
## [1639] "can be afraid to leave get syphoned off into one vertical difficult to move around"
## [1640] "no cons its just awsome"
## [1641] "there are cons to say actually"
## [1642] "i do not have any cons about this company"
## [1643] "you could get behind if you do not showcase your work"
## [1644] "i wont work extra time"
## [1645] "salary might not be as high as other similar companies nevertheless all other attributes such as flexibility lunch perks great office team environment google reputation compensates"
## [1646] "not a lot of upward mobility past a certain point directors managers are hired from outside except for in eng also while some managers are incredible and gifted others are not and the only option for development is basically to transfer orgs"
## [1647] "do not spend enough time with my family"
## [1648] "you are attracted by small things like free food etc but after a while you will be bored so start something by your own like larry and sergey did"
## [1649] "hectic work commute is not provided"
## [1650] "you may be stuck on a dead end project until you can get transferred away"
## [1651] "o no thing at all"
## [1652] "very good company culture"
## [1653] "for earning money and make google great and good"
## [1654] "studying in a college in mechatronics department"
## [1655] "became too risk averse in the business side of things and there are too many meetings with no meaning no decisions"
## [1656] "nothing to say about it"
## [1657] "constantly changing low predictability lack of clarity politics"
## [1658] "practically burocracy no homeoffice and take too much time to get promotion"
## [1659] "there are no cons for this company it is the best"
## [1660] "low growth rate less employee satisfaction in some teams smart people doing mediocre work"
## [1661] "career development should be prioritized"
## [1662] "i do not have any cons to say"
## [1663] "sometimes the politics are hard"
## [1664] "you have to work a lot"
## [1665] "hiring process is too slow and painful for candidates"
## [1666] "no flexible timimgs and odd working hours"
## [1667] "only colleges premises is little bit small"
## [1668] "actually nothing quiet bad thats ok"
## [1669] "too many big bets here"
## [1670] "cant recall much of it its demanding you have to be good"
## [1671] "it is hard to get promoted"
## [1672] "its pays less salary to us"
## [1673] "a bit pricy for average users"
## [1674] "getting consensus for all decisions means slower progress on some projects than in smaller companies very big it is easy to feel like one of many politics are part of the work life"
## [1675] "no cons as per my experience"
## [1676] "workload can be crushing at times you had to drink the coolaid to get anywhere"
## [1677] "no cons to describe for the company"
## [1678] "mid management is fair to weak some lifers hold people back"
## [1679] "no cons very good company to work for"
## [1680] "i do not know of any"
## [1681] "excellent in providing more opertunities"
## [1682] "doing be the best to company"
## [1683] "your work life balance is hard to maintain"
## [1684] "> it is getting big and political changing is getting slow and long > more and more pressure and sales targets more challenging than ever google needs to please its investors > your job can become sometimes a bit repetitive"
## [1685] "no growth low salary high stress"
## [1686] "can be slow moving with decisions and product development growth in numbers has brought some bureaucratic rigidities"
## [1687] "you might be lost becoz they are many people who are well known experts in the particular field but you may catch up if you are hardworking"
## [1688] "nice working management response time"
## [1689] "no cons as i think"
## [1690] "not much interesting work to be done"
## [1691] "end of the internship programme without securing my position for second year"
## [1692] "no down words is i want"
## [1693] "silo need more collaboration foster more teamwork and able to focus on career development"
## [1694] "choice of office matters for career progression and visibility"
## [1695] "to be happy a clients"
## [1696] "bureaucracy could be hard to manage if you come from a smaller company"
## [1697] "steep learning curve for products that are continuously changing"
## [1698] "large company the changing culture of the company is a result of the increase in size"
## [1699] "a monotonous job division not much system administration an operations engineer can do"
## [1700] "internal tools are super frustrating and waste a lot of time that could be used to focus on our jobs"
## [1701] "big company you are a number and not aperson"
## [1702] "hard to move up micromanagement sometimes long hours"
## [1703] "lack of opportunities for career development"
## [1704] "i need more pay thanks"
## [1705] "i am afraid i dont know any"
## [1706] "can not really share about this topic because working in such environment provides with good thoughts working with enjoyment gives work an another level"
## [1707] "google search is all world"
## [1708] "it is easy to forget about work life balance once you start working for them"
## [1709] "not good for new grade since in google promotion is not easy big company now so what you work is a very small portion of the big picture"
## [1710] "company is located at the end of f block sec noida"
## [1711] "as it is such a large company it can sometimes be slow to get through the bureaucracy"
## [1712] "none as of yet in google"
## [1713] "to manage different people to all sections"
## [1714] "attrition is so low that career development is very constrained compensation and work conditions are so favourable that a number of people are now just coasting and lack drive"
## [1715] "there can be a lot of bureaucracy inefficiency and swirl some of this is due to the company growing very quickly and not completely figuring out its processes and some of it is intentional by the time they figure it out the business has changed"
## [1716] "negative but also very hard work to do"
## [1717] "working hours are too long"
## [1718] "work life balance is difficult to manage"
## [1719] "well the food is really good and that is distracting p"
## [1720] "no specific growth ladder exists"
## [1721] "work life balance would sometimes need improving but was generally good"
## [1722] "no cons job is perfect"
## [1723] "lot of work pressure the top management has no vision people end up doing random things with no clear direction"
## [1724] "it could be challenging to meet the requirements but you learn a lot in the same time and it is the most important"
## [1725] "long work hours for god sake"
## [1726] "management treat you terrible staff are only a number in their eyes"
## [1727] "not much to list here"
## [1728] "sometimes boring not enough work to do"
## [1729] "none i can think of"
## [1730] "the work is very good"
## [1731] "can sometimes feel like a small piece of a big puzzle some teams can have boring projects sometimes work can feel slow paced compared to working in a smaller company or start up"
## [1732] "management only reacts to things"
## [1733] "obviously not a startup anymore so moves super slow"
## [1734] "vps constantly changing entire division s focus this can be exhausting and demoralising when you have worked so hard towards goals that suddenly become irrelevant or stale often you find out about these changes via rumours or side conversations takes experience to balance work life balance with promotion goals very easy to get sucked into patterns of long hours"
## [1735] "limited career progression opportunities in some sales teams dublin office seen as support while decisions and strategy happen in the local offices path towards promotion can be difficult due to certain visibility requirements also a manager who lacks authority or a certain amount of influence or with whom you do not particularly get along very well can severely hinder your chances of success"
## [1736] "working timing is fixed not extra expend your time"
## [1737] "feels like nowhere else to go"
## [1738] "ground level work very manual and tactical"
## [1739] "have not being able to find a con yet"
## [1740] "any special inconvenient through my experience"
## [1741] "too big less career opportunities than startups"
## [1742] "career opportunity impact"
## [1743] "i do not have something to say"
## [1744] "no cons who does not like google"
## [1745] "as the company grew office politics got toxic compared to years earlier the meritocracy culture pitted employees against each other performance management system overly complicated and geared towards scoring employees rather than helping them grow"
## [1746] "can be very political sometimes"
## [1747] "itâ\200\231s not as it used to be the people that have stayed are political masterminds that donâ\200\231t care about doing a good job but keeping their position and creating a fake image of how amazing initiatives theyâ\200\231ve come up with"
## [1748] "there are not any cons that are worth mentioning"
## [1749] "a lot of internal competition and it is not easy to get promoted"
## [1750] "having less speedy network since i am leaving in ethiopia here in my country network speed is so slow this affect me"
## [1751] "none till now but sometime politics"
## [1752] "na na na na na"
## [1753] "took a massive paycut initially sales teams are very cut throat some real bad managers who get promoted because of office politics"
## [1754] "core job can be repetetive"
## [1755] "location irregular work schedules"
## [1756] "huge company slow movement"
## [1757] "workload no work life balance"
## [1758] "recent years have seen what felt like an exponencial increase in middle and senior levels of management which have derailed some parts of the organization away from what would be its very worthwhile mission increasingly political company"
## [1759] "demands can be high you need to deliver"
## [1760] "my love is to serve the google"
## [1761] "no real cons aside from disparity between googlers and tvcs"
## [1762] "if you are to progress you need to master the game of politics so if you are only a top performer that doesnt always play the cards in some teams if you are unlucky leadership can be a bit biased and is not as strong and focus as other teams however sundar s leadership is what gives employees confidence inspiration and motivation"
## [1763] "no specification time consuming not full time"
## [1764] "a rat race bad work life balance not for someone who has already a family"
## [1765] "nothing to say for cons"
## [1766] "recruitment is horrible they forget you and only care about their own job people are too educated for their positions it is very structured compared to what they wish to be innovation happens by acquiring start ups internal transfers to other countries can be a lot more difficult than they say"
## [1767] "sleepless nights countless meetings to attend"
## [1768] "i am an normal student studying in panimalar engineering college chennai year ece group"
## [1769] "pressurised a little too far in gurgaon can be hectic for some as its a target based work and can build pressure"
## [1770] "a little bit shift from bottom up to top down culture"
## [1771] "ä± did not receive salary"
## [1772] "no cons just they pay extra lol everythings is good and yes come here and join our work with us"
## [1773] "no cons as of now"
## [1774] "with very talented people it can be difficult to rise in the company as you may find elsewhere google pays industry average so you will not be on top pay here"
## [1775] "hierarchy and bureaucracy hard to grow quickly on the career ladder"
## [1776] "decision taking time is too much"
## [1777] "no cons â work here good management great wow"
## [1778] "worklife balance can sometime be hard to get right due to the constant demands on your time"
## [1779] "no things and no things"
## [1780] "a little bit work pressure but manageable"
## [1781] "bit big and hierarchical as well"
## [1782] "i really enjoy this work i always do clean i earn money very easily in google for this work so"
## [1783] "highly political often times which can be challenging difficult to advance quickly"
## [1784] "toxic work environment no manager around training or monitoring the staff rota not done properly one day you are too many other day you are short staffed cheap uniforms changing rooms are smelly dirty and overly crowded meals on duty are a disgrace we were served raw food several times there is no staff canteen they told me during interview it was temporary it has actually been like that for the last years"
## [1785] "giant tankard that can not be steered too big too slow and too many layers"
## [1786] "i do not have any cons"
## [1787] "not many interesting projects especially outside mountain view"
## [1788] "too big for decision process"
## [1789] "too big slow canâ\200\231t move"
## [1790] "over time it is lost its innovative streak which tends to happen with any company that goes from startup stage to a k+"
## [1791] "work life balance long hours"
## [1792] "the incentive system and promotions favor visibility and salesmanship over actual work this leads to silly situations where everyone and their dog are a lead so they can be promoted and actual work gets sidelined google does not push out low performers instead they tend to stay in their role forever while others move on leading to departments where the levels of excellence you would expect of google are not met there is some amount of pointless process and bureaucracy like at other big companies but at google it is somehow more infuriating partly it is frustrating because it is applied arbitrarily and unevenly more importantly though the pin counters and process writers undermine the culture of personal responsibility and creativity which makes the top performers leave for places where they are more trusted to get on with it"
## [1793] "no cons all is well"
## [1794] "politics egos at very senior levels"
## [1795] "bureaucracy slow career progression the company is way too big now"
## [1796] "nothing really can not complain of my job"
## [1797] "various quality of project management depends on the teams"
## [1798] "getting too big so roles become quite specialised"
## [1799] "very large company possibly already reached it is full potential"
## [1800] "lack of structure can be daunting you could be working on a project for a year then suddenly it would get scratched very little opportunity for promotion"
## [1801] "stress and life work balance"
## [1802] "you might end up spending all your time at work because you have everything you need only going home to see family and change clothes"
## [1803] "too hierarchical but great managers"
## [1804] "i did not find any cons here"
## [1805] "imposter syndrome limited impact in such a large company"
## [1806] "wrestling with how to maintain culture whilst growing as a business more process being implemented as company scales meaning loss of agility"
## [1807] "best company to work here"
## [1808] "crazy politics limited growth and ceiling effect"
## [1809] "not all but i am not accept liability"
## [1810] "almost everybody is overqualified for their jobs google has a very strong brand position thatâ\200\231s why they have to pick the brightest candidates even for low level positions itâ\200\231s hard to get promoted if youâ\200\231re already overqualified for your post you can expect that people with higher posts have even â\200œbetterâ\200\235 education and stronger work ethic too many egotistic people everyone is territorial theyâ\200\231re not interested in the opinion of others unless those people are important not enough employee diversity they used to hire people with similar backgrounds same worldviews from the same schools with the same interests your expectations for your next job will be harder to meet after being a google employee your standards will almost be impossible to match youâ\200\231ll always look for the same benefits you got from your previous employer"
## [1811] "management can at times be demanding"
## [1812] "nothing has come up which is negative"
## [1813] "i used to have a car and now it is broken so i take public transport to get to work"
## [1814] "to far away from home"
## [1815] "long hours of working environment"
## [1816] "becoming a really big corporation with all the problems derived from it"
## [1817] "no cons"
## [1818] "it is getting too burocratic"
## [1819] "less agility than i thought"
## [1820] "can not work in pressure"
## [1821] "work life balance is not great and you will probably get paid more almost anywhere else"
## [1822] "it is some times hard workibg at google"
## [1823] "slightly bureaucratic as it grows in size"
## [1824] "nothing to say about it but specifically if i need to mention here is i can say better need to be free employee"
## [1825] "work life balance can be difficult when working with different timezones around the world"
## [1826] "some people might find it too large of a company"
## [1827] "lower salary no work life balance"
## [1828] "i did not find anything as such"
## [1829] "big name are more from the very first day i think they deserve that"
## [1830] "sometimes things happen so fast managers easily loose focus on long term vision and prioritise short term tactical deliveries company is more vertical than they would claim still hierarchical and decisions sometimes take a long time to get approved"
## [1831] "google ireland felt like a continuum to a college very junior people who enjoyed the expat bubble and parties â\200 not much experience around the company has a reputation for hiring overqualified people to mundane roles and that is what happened to me there was no way to change the role and nobody in the management admitted the problem so my experience in the company was unhappy and quite short"
## [1832] "there are no cons working here it is calm and funny environment"
## [1833] "backstabbing and ultra competitive environment which rewards great acting skills"
## [1834] "using ai in order to subvert independent media truth reports using ai to quantitatively collect as much personal and bio data as it can from every human being on earth which will be soon used against humanity sundar pichai is a megalomanical greed monger who is essentially a traitor to humanity"
## [1835] "i am work in google is very easy"
## [1836] "getting too big and slow"
## [1837] "no growth no time no balance no free time no games"
## [1838] "must put all the efforts in all tasks"
## [1839] "very fast changing org structure may not be suitable for everyone"
## [1840] "if a person does not perform on target the pressure is very high"
## [1841] "progression can be challenging a lot of people are leveled incorrectly on entry and come in too low"
## [1842] "poor training high staff turn over unrealistic targets"
## [1843] "none for a person who loves to learn and grow"
## [1844] "some times it time taking"
## [1845] "not yet any not find any some times projects are same"
## [1846] "intresting and unique thing i have ever seen"
## [1847] "nothing everything great check pros"
## [1848] "unmanaged unprofessional unreliable self centred managementnreliable self centred management bad hr and hr policies"
## [1849] "socially strict not able to speak your mind"
## [1850] "less opportunities to growth compared to smaller offices"
## [1851] "performance evaluation cycles are very lengthy and can get excessively competitive"
## [1852] "the few bad things about google is that during lunch no one really talks they just sit on their laptops and you need a keycard to get anywhere even the merch cupboard"
## [1853] "none no issues to report"
## [1854] "sometimes i do not have anything to work on"
## [1855] "work life balance does not exist and very poor flexibility of working hours especially for parents"
## [1856] "staff are worked like dogs sometimes not much room for promotions game of thrones esque politics between departments if you do not hit off with the right people you will not make it far"
## [1857] "they might unfavorably dominate the market they mighty take advantage of consumer expense they can push local firms out of business they are willing to gain ridiculous profits at any cost they a great environmental threat"
## [1858] "there is nothing that i would change"
## [1859] "no inconvenients for the moment i need to word to know and giving my point of view"
## [1860] "competitive lots of very smart people and you have to stand out amongst them"
## [1861] "increasing corporate nature was dehumanising the culture"
## [1862] "office politics and attitude plays a negative role in the indian office"
## [1863] "poor work life balance highly competitive"
## [1864] "not a good ok as c rgo shrsty your career"
## [1865] "it has no downsides cons or whatever you wanna call it"
## [1866] "like everywhere else but overall no deal breaker internal politics some orgs seem better treated than other high vs low budgets company culture values can feel heavy at times"
## [1867] "there are so many amazing things to work on and it hards to pick one"
## [1868] "you need to always prove the work you have been done"
## [1869] "very time consuming at google"
## [1870] "culture shift and need to focus on core products instead of competing with everyone"
## [1871] "not any negatives really to say"
## [1872] "time went way too fast for them"
## [1873] "over crowded too many people trying to do similar things"
## [1874] "wavering strategy for africa where i am based"
## [1875] "no cons so far everything is fine"
## [1876] "every thing is cons from management to working environment"
## [1877] "in my opinion the work in google is no disadvantages because there is a good salary there are many opportunities and prospects"
## [1878] "i do not trust the upper management they do not have my respect our team does not function as a team it is just individuals sitting together i expected higher code quality from such a respected company"
## [1879] "quite hectic and not enough time"
## [1880] "small office lesser career move opportunities"
## [1881] "work life balance could be improved in the india office"
## [1882] "salary climate and some other things"
## [1883] "lots of politics which slows down the work you are trying to finish"
## [1884] "work life balance and lack of good execution"
## [1885] "no money or holiday yet"
## [1886] "its a pleasure to me that i work at google"
## [1887] "lack of justice employee assessments they never support anything staff had ever care something talking with customer like rude people"
## [1888] "large company problems you likely end up either a small contributor in an impacful project or a large contributor in a small project"
## [1889] "it seems like the company is no longer sticking to the original values that made me wanna work for them such as put the user first and everything else will follow also i felt like there were weak support from hr and middle management to support my career plan"
## [1890] "studied a master funded my own company several years of experience managing at an entrepreneurial level nothing matters for google you will be placed on customer service getting calls with no innovation whatsoever unless you are an engineer"
## [1891] "very tough to be seleccted"
## [1892] "their is none as they have a healthy working environment"
## [1893] "the organization is becoming increasingly bureaucratic low transparency for performance appraisals and criteria for promotions lack of actionable feedback false sense of superiority in some of the managers just because they joined in the earlier days"
## [1894] "no negatives in this organisation"
## [1895] "it is probably the best company to work for"
## [1896] "change management and frequent re org s"
## [1897] "nothing e t h i n g"
## [1898] "they expect the world and more each and every day you need to be the best you can be"
## [1899] "hard to stand out with so many smart people around you who are ready to work hard losing key people for projects can be tough"
## [1900] "improvemnt of speed contct detila"
## [1901] "no cons it is good company for work"
## [1902] "easy to develop imposter syndrome"
## [1903] "nice job but it can be more better"
## [1904] "too many working hours sometimes stressful"
## [1905] "you have to be at the top your game there is no room for slacking"
## [1906] "free food and drinks because of your hard works long hours for some teams no way to change anything even you know the directions on wrong track the management might scream at the meeting or in front of other employees the management would not keep their words and all faults caused by the junior not their directions unreasonable timeline sometimes"
## [1907] "a lot of smart people and hence more challenging to advance your career"
## [1908] "a lot of international hangouout meetings work life balance was bad"
## [1909] "if we worh here it is presitious one"
## [1910] "i dont see any cons"
## [1911] "how to accept the changes of the technology day by day"
## [1912] "if you are not in california there are somewhat fewer opportunities not you can take all the opportunities that show up anyway"
## [1913] "really high competition to get into the industry"
## [1914] "nothing to mention except one thing a bit limited oppty for promotion"
## [1915] "company has reached a size and a complexity where most roles even at senior level are rather narrow in scope and there is a lot of work about work agreeing who does what defining processes one can grow impatient and weary"
## [1916] "to be honest i found none"
## [1917] "quite a repetitive job really"
## [1918] "lots of work and lots of smart people to make you feel dumb"
## [1919] "long working hours but rewarded for"
## [1920] "its scale is too big so the outer usa branch will be not fully googley"
## [1921] "google adversaries google works in outsite and field work etc"
## [1922] "disorganized product management procedures office politics"
## [1923] "no cons that i can think of"
## [1924] "have to organize yourself well because you work independently"
## [1925] "the only downside i faced is my profile was not apt to my field of study"
## [1926] "more limited room for growth and project availability in satellite offices especially if they are on the smaller side but this is likely an issue in any distributed company"
## [1927] "unclear goals at mid level positions"
## [1928] "you lose much time mancham and finds nothing"
## [1929] "nothing to say about cons in my last company"
## [1930] "people are disposable opaque performance review process subjective and based on politics too many middle managers shouting to be heard"
## [1931] "i did not find anything its fine"
## [1932] "most monotous job you can experience in your life mexican market is a mess people on the european markets earn the same than people that make the effort on markets like mexico or brasil"
## [1933] "low salary no motivation if they close the project"
## [1934] "it didnt last very long"
## [1935] "however the work involved was very tough and difficult you have to put in a lot of extra work to do well"
## [1936] "highly competitive overly metric driven constant reorganisations and management changes making career development difficult career progression can be an issue if your manager is unsupportive and may be limited depending on the location you are working in smaller offices have less career development opportunities in sales there is a strong me myself and i culture where you will need to position your achievements strategically to get ahead which can be tedious and tiresome"
## [1937] "thiere is no cons according to me"
## [1938] "amazing people and even more amazing environment"
## [1939] "large hierarchy difficult to own projects"
## [1940] "less innovation and more dull than expected"
## [1941] "contract based and under an agency"
## [1942] "horrible management bad team team spirit visible in poor code quality lack of motivation all offices managed from mtv"
## [1943] "random and often incompeten management by people caring about their careers more than about anything else"
## [1944] "middle management is awful and dangerous"
## [1945] "politics egos visibility obsession processes too much data analysis"
## [1946] "not much to say about cons"
## [1947] "i can not find anything cons because google is a storehouse of pros"
## [1948] "no issues flexible and reliable solution"
## [1949] "it is a huge company there is little freedom to move around and work around what you want to work on"
## [1950] "way to much travel lots of hr overhead time is really"
## [1951] "turning into a very big company not really bottom up anymore"
## [1952] "there is a relentless push for promotion and while i appreciate the upward mobility in the company i found it frustrating that ultimately I would be pushed towards people management roles when this was not my strength"
## [1953] "more rewards for visibility and politics than results"
## [1954] "none that i can think of"
## [1955] "routine work monotonous and boring"
## [1956] "no special comments for cons"
## [1957] "a lot to do there"
## [1958] "nothing bad all is positive"
## [1959] "temp role with an end date"
## [1960] "as many consulting companies i would say that it could be difficult to work if the individual is used to work with processes type corporations"
## [1961] "snake pit in terms of internal politics and promotions business is growing so fast organic individual impact unclear =unsatisfying almost nobody actually cares about the job they were hired for mostly focused on getting promotions visibility project impressing management"
## [1962] "absurd idea difficult for apply competition for the whole world"
## [1963] "could be given more challenging tasks sometimes"
## [1964] "perks grown on to you it could be difficult to find other jobs that match the google culture it is easy to get lost in such a huge setup"
## [1965] "pay is not competitive very difficult to ascend"
## [1966] "high pressure long hours competitive environment"
## [1967] "please be aware that you personal skill set gets not further developed and that you will never make a real career google managers are usually hired externally"
## [1968] "large corporation difficult to distinguish yourself"
## [1969] "accountant related job in google"
## [1970] "till now there are no negative points"
## [1971] "they work you hard have to be strict with yourself"
## [1972] "hard working hours and a lot of discrimination jokes all day long"
## [1973] "as the organization is growing bigger everything slows down and decisions are more bureaucratic"
## [1974] "too much stress believe me"
## [1975] "none an excellent organisation to work and grow"
## [1976] "well i do not see any downside working at google"
## [1977] "so tough to find anything like this company once you leave"
## [1978] "in my opinion there is no cons"
## [1979] "no cons as such the atmosphere is good as well"
## [1980] "google is supposed to be of the best place in the world to work its a career heaven googlers have some of the best perks and they are among the highest paid in the industry"
## [1981] "working environment too stressful and long working hour"
## [1982] "google is already too big company and it sounds like some or most employees do not have venture spirits anymore"
## [1983] "as the company grows bigger it is becoming more and more political if you are not an engineer then getting good performance ratings and promotion takes a bit of skills"
## [1984] "hard work long hours limited travel"
## [1985] "company growing at fast pace and it has too many layers can be a bit political"
## [1986] "very dynamic atmosphere no time to get comfortable in your role because change happens very often sometimes positive sometimes negative change high competition due to very qualified and skilled colleagues long promotion process"
## [1987] "i heard company politics are a bit of a pain but then all big companies have that if you want to get promoted quickly you have to work on new and cool things instead of maintaining old products and maintaining old products it is very normal cons for a big company"
## [1988] "i did not like the atmosphere or the way people treated each other it was extremely competitive and socially i felt like i was back in school in a bad way the day is too long would be fair and after hours work is frequently expected of you"
## [1989] "bad work life balance the flexibilty of working hours is there but still the after job mail handling and other stuff are a drag"
## [1990] "salary is the biggest advantage"
## [1991] "a lot of smart people concentrated in one place someone s got to do the dirty work even though everyone is probably massively over qualified"
## [1992] "quite far from my house but that does not matter"
## [1993] "bay area is too expensive to live"
## [1994] "analytical roles within sales are badly managed data analysts managed by non technical stakeholders very competitive calibration and performance review process with too much focus on big projects regardless of the actual value delivered overly bureaucratic systems and organisations very difficult to find the correct person or team that can action what you need constant requirement to fill out various shared collaborative spreadsheets that serve no long term function constant rotation of staff average role turnover time years means clients are not really getting the best quality account and sales management"
## [1995] "no work place stressfull environment"
## [1996] "none i can think of"
## [1997] "very fast paced and you do not always get chance to take advantage of all the benefits provided as with all companies there are some characters to work with and around it is not supposed to be hierarchical but it has become that way and red tape is ever increasing at is grows"
## [1998] "no pay very vachious make promises they know will not be filled hard to understand who is in charge cancelled all of my orders after i worked for them also not a dollar from anyone yet"
## [1999] "very competitive environment with all its advantages and inconvenients"
## [2000] "over time work work life balance"
## [2001] "inadiuate tasks no advice late responce"
## [2002] "working at google can expose yourself in great danger"
## [2003] "lack of work life balance in new business for ads aggressive numbers oriented sales environment emea new business for ads is churn and burn environment sales policies that stop you from selling saturated market"
## [2004] "increasing pressure on a daily basis too many old useless employees just sitting and doing nothing highest level of internal office politics"
## [2005] "moving internally is near impossible unless you specifically fit the bill travel is very tightly managed pay is no longer competitive with other companies in the industry work life balance near non existent politics run high"
## [2006] "promotions take too long to happen"
## [2007] "huge competition almost everyone is overqualified for ther work google is far from a startup everything is political not the best people get promoted but the best in politics living costs in dublin are extremly high compared the salary is low especially after the taxes work life balance is a myth in the end you are a small part in a huge machinery where no noe really cares at the beginning you think it is great but in the end you are way better of at other companies"
## [2008] "there is nothings bad in this awesome company"
## [2009] "no growth in the company"
## [2010] "fewer opportunities internally now that the company has matured"
## [2011] "heirarchy infrastructure working in niche markets the professionals get invisible employees need to go the extra mile to connect and network"
## [2012] "no cons as such in love with this place no intention to leave it"
## [2013] "slow progression limited transitions into other departments hard to move vertically or horizontally managers are poorly trained limited exit options"
## [2014] "large organization now making it harder to maintain culture the impact of organizational politics is also growing"
## [2015] "can be a highly political environment"
## [2016] "becoming bureaucracy when team is growing"
## [2017] "the golden days are over the company has grown too much and has become way too political it is a huge ad selling machine though employees are constantly brainwashed about it being the saver of the world google is more a sect than a grown up company and expect to be always online and connected mentally to work as this is what all the perks are really about even though your manager might sell you a different story there is this continuous chase for excelling at everything and coming up with new projects and initiatives all the time so that your manager gets promoted quickly as new projects are sexiest so be ready to work your bums if + hrs a day if you are hired into l+"
## [2018] "not much cons here at google"
## [2019] "gtech has small travel budget e g I have never travelled to mountain view in over years to meet my teammates in person your job performance is measured with hard call center like kpis customer contacts time for resolution etc big org where everybody wants to get promoted asap to move to other teams thus very difficult to get promoted within years decision making process is very slow expect to take months and months to get approvals for the simplest projects project time has to be done in addition to your core work metrics they hire people who are too smart talented for their role e g you are a full stack engineer but do technical support mid management and vps in gtech do not show leadership and do not follow through on their words e g preach take ownership but force everybody to follow processes and meet certain support metrics the core compensation base + bonus is relative low but google s high stock price is balancing the total comp"
## [2020] "sometimes tricky to find a great role in a particular country mountain view is a dump"
## [2021] "none found during my tenure"
## [2022] "mountain view is really dull there are few social interactions outside of work as everything is so far away"
## [2023] "increase the leave for employeers"
## [2024] "the office is sometimes noisy"
## [2025] "in google cloud many times enterprise requirements did not get high priority compared with free consumer user requirements"
## [2026] "no cons as it is a good place to work"
## [2027] "overworked occasionally feel very underappreciated"
## [2028] "good i suggest to everyone who wants to develop a career"
## [2029] "google is a good for technology learner not for money earner"
## [2030] "a lot of politics going on between vendor contracters who do the same job for less salary compared to full time googlers they treat the contractors like a ugly duckling low salary for contractors contractors become googles experimental rabbits they hire great people to do great job and when they see that the project is going well they fire all of the contractors they then advertise that google is looking for new staff instead of hire the hard working contractors to full time who already knows the products well they look for brand new people with no experience lies to teams about re org saying that everyone will have a job when truly the whole team gets fired the google bubble of their own little world can be blinding"
## [2031] "nothing is bad i think in this jobs"
## [2032] "bad on employees mobilityâ\200 less innovative culture outside mtv lack of growth oppertuinties sallery is not high very much the same as in other companies"
## [2033] "none to list actually here"
## [2034] "no quality of food finding place is difficult"
## [2035] "depends on your priorities really"
## [2036] "long hours size teams large diverse"
## [2037] "as a temp you have limitation even to do your own job silly sometimes"
## [2038] "becoming a big company even culture wise"
## [2039] "long working hours sometimes otherwise its perfect"
## [2040] "getting more political seems like you need to be a certain type of person to progress your career"
## [2041] "becoming a corporate company greater leeway for promotion"
## [2042] "your google experience depends completely on your manager atleast for non eng roles"
## [2043] "company is large so sometimes difficult to navigate"
## [2044] "no cons no cons no cons"
## [2045] "hours expected far too long no allowance for settling in time what they sell externally is not what happens internally popularity contest in some of the roles not based on your experience unprofessional approach to internal correspondence"
## [2046] "getting bigger in terms of company size which lose start up atmosphere"
## [2047] "too busy at times and lack of clear leadership from above"
## [2048] "google is now a big company even though they try to remain a start up the spirit can not be the same after so many years and hires there are some long processes to get access to data or tools and what you work on may not have a very big impact being surrounded by smart people every where makes it not that easy to highlight your skills"
## [2049] "at senior levels number of opportunities for progression can be limited in regional offices culture of a startup is a challenge to maintain as the company grows and matures"
## [2050] "the company is too big"
## [2051] "nothing to share any words to down side"
## [2052] "no cons as of now"
## [2053] "difficult to move cross division internally"
## [2054] "the work life balance is not to great expect to do a lot of over time which can be the major pitfall"
## [2055] "language barrier and culture shock"
## [2056] "few junior opportunities in marketing department"
## [2057] "cog in a large machine feeling"
## [2058] "too many organisation and go to market strategy changes short vs long term cloud strategy high pressure on sales teams"
## [2059] "pursues efficeincy and effectiveness always can be choking to some people"
## [2060] "is difficult to be hired"
## [2061] "it is a big company requires process and people oriented skills more than just results oriented enthusiasm to succeed as an sre you use mostly home grown tools and technologies it is easy to loose touch with the rest of the world working at google is a tradeoff between tactical skills and strategic experience"
## [2062] "none everything was good to be honest"
## [2063] "can get a little stale or boring after years however you can of course change within the company the company is very middle management heavy and in dublin managers key role is people managing and driving processes they lose touch with the outside world and the products"
## [2064] "really good opinion in employees"
## [2065] "there are no cons here"
## [2066] "the hours can stretch if you do not watch out"
## [2067] "highly stressful environment which always brings undefined situations"
## [2068] "workforce can be very young and entrepreneurial which sometimes makes things feel like they are not structured and there is no clear leadership this can be experienced as a good thing as well"
## [2069] "asp net mvc jquery javascript ajax entity frame work mvc html sql c"
## [2070] "the projects for intern are not challenging as expected"
## [2071] "disorganized transitions and re orgs tough targets since it gets bigger becomes more burocratic meeting expectations is not enough to get promotions or a salary increase"
## [2072] "some smart people might disagree with you some might take things aways from you sometimes huge projects could fail"
## [2073] "no work searching for job"
## [2074] "google has become a huge company and it is becoming harder to maintain the googley spirit but it still there and the company is still the best i have worked at i do not want to be anywhere else"
## [2075] "nothing no comments to make"
## [2076] "quite tedious work i would say even pretty boring although its google its still similiat to customer service job"
## [2077] "nothing i can think so just a little improvement to have open areas in officers like they have in usa"
## [2078] "not many growth opportunities if not in hq dublin or california"
## [2079] "warsaw had pretty bad salary but that is because the cost of living is"
## [2080] "very few but if you like a small scrappy start up vibe you might struggle with driving large change at scale at the pace you are used to"
## [2081] "google is getting too big"
## [2082] "promotions hard to get and few over qualified people sometimes hired at junior levels lower pay so negotiate well when joining"
## [2083] "really competitive and extremely political the best people do not necessarily get ahead and some people get ahead doing things outside of their jobs without doing their actual jobs work life balance is hard"
## [2084] "nothing much everything good"
## [2085] "fast paced company that requires complex set of skills not suit for everybody"
## [2086] "being a small actor of a very big system can make a person feel unimportant"
## [2087] "will never forget about that experience"
## [2088] "very flat structure to the minimum"
## [2089] "sort of an identity crisis due to size and success what to do now lots of people there who have never worked anywhere else a bit insular at times"
## [2090] "as the size increases so does complexities typical issues of a big oranisation"
## [2091] "it is a corporation so while itâ\200\231s better than many donâ\200\231t expect rainbows without some rain if you donâ\200\231t watch out you can get sucked in and sacrifice work life balance you typically wonâ\200\231t be asked to do that though"
## [2092] "nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing"
## [2093] "very political no feedback for managers"
## [2094] "working in a high performing and fast paced environment is not everyone s cup of tea it can be stressful at times"
## [2095] "in the sales team the company culture is always suffering because of the quota every time our director is behind quota we lose a lit bit of google s way of doing things"
## [2096] "constant shifting priorities projects organization structure but this is also an opportunity and the company is not afraid to kill good ideas that have gone badly"
## [2097] "reorganizations happen very often and are disruptive for career management"
## [2098] "did not feel anything bad until now"
## [2099] "decision making too centralized in the us and limited autonomy in emea for certain functions"
## [2100] "i am not sure whether this is the best place for professional development and learning new things many of the technologies used are inside only and will not help you outside"
## [2101] "google has customized all the infra which means less open source code is used if you move out you will have to relearn the syntax though concepts will be same work life balance difficult promotions"
## [2102] "promotions solely based on something they like to call visibility useless projects get started all the time just to be cc d on emails to director level and above those projects in most cases lead to nothing and do not produce any results at all it is solely done for the purpose of being able to mention one s great initiative in the next performance review cycle another factor they promote on are several soft attributes which is a way for management to promote on subjectivity you are always told the company is a meritocracy eventho it is clearly not this incongruent messaging compared to reality is extremely frustrating it does not matter at all if you reach of your target or what matters in the end is the above mentioned visibility another proof is that i heard managers say oh he has been here already for years we have to promote him now which is a joke and demotivating for high performing folks the metrics you are measured on in an account management role are only indirectly linked to revenue and are manipulated by the vast majority of reps once they have been on the job for a quarter and know the drill management knows this but does not care since they look good in front of their own bosses if the numbers look good the best of the manipulators do not have to work at all to reach their targets many of the middle managers are incompetent and have been stuck in their role for sometimes nearly a decade there is no real willingness to achieve something great and make progress but those people are just happy where they are in their career and spend their whole day wasting everyone s time in meetings or sending out useless emails very limited learning opportunity if you have a manager like this and very demotivating because no one wants to end up like them however there is the rare exception of a great manager leadership cult people of levels of director and above are worshipped through the entire organization and are treated like god s gift to everything some of them are admittedly great some of them are not learning curve will be non existent at the latest after months and you will be doing the same day in day out you can learn by yourself some new stuff with the great online training database but the main thing you are doing gets old quite soon a lot of people drink the kool aid there are quite a few critical people like myself in the organization but a majority of people think they are on top of the world because they work in one of the least respected role of a prestigious company people are not super smart everywhere they hire basically everyone and it is just luck getting through the interview process + of hires come from personal referrals since their cvs would not go through the official channel level of entitled and incompetent people can be extremely high in certain teams"
## [2103] "it can be like a bubble"
## [2104] "hard to get promoted because of the hierarchies that are emerging in the past years pay is only ok but great benefits people spend a lot of time with each other outside of work can get exhausting"
## [2105] "could have been better in terms of salary wise"
## [2106] "the tel aviv office is still quite small so there are not a lot of options managers are engineers that were tested for their engineering abilities not pepole management sometimes they are laking management skills"
## [2107] "most people put on weight over there this is the only down side i can think of"
## [2108] "lots of politics overhires and underchallenges people"
## [2109] "no cons its google the best in the universe"
## [2110] "step up in career progression may take a while and everybody is very ambitious so can be frustrating sometimes"
## [2111] "it is very difficult to find work as an intern in google because the selection and interviews are really complex"
## [2112] "might be tooo fast paced for some"
## [2113] "the competities are really intensive and everybody are hardworking and do not have too much time to relax"
## [2114] "politics overshadow work and managers and co workers are empowered to cut each other down to compete for projects and promotions there is an unfair treatment of technical women with families where co workers and managers are empowered to question your abilities based on family obligations even though it is unrelated to work you will be expected to walk in the door a technical expert and you will not be given adequate time to complete work you will spend the majority of your time playing politics to management on down to entry level staff senior managers and human resources do not have any empathy for building teams rather their focus is on maintaining a facade of efficiencies"
## [2115] "google is already a large company more processes more hierarchy which is not bad but you need to acknowledge it"
## [2116] "too much salary is given no time to spend this much money"
## [2117] "work life balance is bad mediocre management"
## [2118] "i did not like the fact that google did not help me at all in finding an accommodation as i went to work for bigg from abroad"
## [2119] "the only downside about the culture is that most people at google are type a personalities which makes internal competition extremely high"
## [2120] "hard to convert to full time status"
## [2121] "very expensive housing in the mountain view area"
## [2122] "management behavior is not well"
## [2123] "work life balance hard to achieve"
## [2124] "limited challenging problems to tackle"
## [2125] "the work there may stressful for some people as there is much work"
## [2126] "good environment to work and learn a lot of things"
## [2127] "i do not have a negative comment"
## [2128] "the office is always low on coffee makes sense communication between management outside of the office is rarely a challenge more lunch on friday s"
## [2129] "nothing just awesome it is"
## [2130] "poor work life balance late meetings with us unclear promotion process"
## [2131] "no freedom hard to be promoted"
## [2132] "career progression is difficult and slow more and more politics and bureaucracy limited space for innovation difficult to move from sales to engineer technical skills in sales will not get you far make sure you are in a role that is critical for the organisation you work for"
## [2133] "nothing much to say except the transport"
## [2134] "lot of work to do"
## [2135] "sometimes people might get too relaxed there"
## [2136] "a little over pressuring"
## [2137] "none that i have encountered"
## [2138] "slow development cycle might affect your internship project s pace"
## [2139] "the company culture is different from that of other countries they are less relaxed and less centralized and some teams are very toxic"
## [2140] "work pressure is a bit high"
## [2141] "should concentrate more on employees for their benefits"
## [2142] "too much work pressure deadlines are hard not as good as they portray on media"
## [2143] "bad payment bad management to much of stress fully one man management"
## [2144] "practically nothing worth to mention"
## [2145] "thought is energy that is organized into a specific frequency that frequency is then organized by the brain into chemicals and signals which tell the body how to interact with the rest of the physical world the brain is organizing the thought into physical perception it is a translator rather than the originator of thoughts thought does not originate let us pretend it is like clay with no beginning the clay is not created by the sculptor but the sculptor organizes the clay into meaning the thought is thinking thought and thinker are one in the same i agree with i think therefore i am because the only point at which one knows that one is is the point at which they think that they are and so they are ps thought is non matter and also matter physical matter is a thought that has been thought enough that it begins to take on static properties"
## [2146] "pay is not as good"
## [2147] "work hard long hour intense too much colaboration"
## [2148] "large company on occasion it can be hard to navigate find your way to getting things done takes time to learn the processes teams stakeholders"
## [2149] "i have no any cons about companny"
## [2150] "there is no cons in google"
## [2151] "decisions are made very quickly sometimes"
## [2152] "can be more work life balance"
## [2153] "i can only speak for the team I am with though customer experience the biggest cons is probably that they over hire while tasking people with very specific job so that at the end of day you are not learning anything and yet because of the great perks and depreciation of your skills since you are not learning much compared to the similar young guys gals at more nimble firms you are reluctant to or cannot move anywhere think of the frog in the boiling pot tale politics is big big as well more than the company wiling to acknowledge"
## [2154] "politics politic politics and er smart people free food lots of interesting work"
## [2155] "structure size repetitive work information rigidity"
## [2156] "you are expected to work hard and much the time for your own projects is a myth more like time if you are outside the us count on there being late night and early morning hangout meetings with us india several times during the weekdays if you are working in engineering but not as a software engineer you will have a hard time getting good performance reviews as all teams will value their own higher than outsiders compared to other companies in more forward thinking countries google is about par for the course compared to individual freedom but you still have have the us styled meddling micro managing bosses there is great inertia in making things happen at foreign offices things that were implemented in the us took years to happen in europe if there was a tax deductable benefit that was available in your country but not in the us it could take even longer to get it set up the really good benefits never make it outside mountain view the workplace in most offices is really crappy the norm is small desks hope you are not sitting opposite someone with long legs crappy chairs people bunched up together unless you work in ads you should be expecting your project could be shut down at any minute if you work in ads you will be under pressure to make more money to the company even if you implement a change that increases company revenue by millions of dollars do not expect that it will affect your bonus or salary more than an extra $k or so you have proven your worth but if they pay you too much you might leave to pursue other interests"
## [2157] "nothing to specify about cons"
## [2158] "politics some projects are done just for visibility micromanagement lots of metrics big company approach what is working on big market should also work on small"
## [2159] "can be very high targets"
## [2160] "repetitive work delivering water trash bags"
## [2161] "service delivery senior management are an absolute joke bullying nepotism lying chaos the most un googley department in the whole company"
## [2162] "getting used to such great experiences that working in any other company unless of course it is a startup will feel like a downgrade most opportunities are in the larger countries like uk fr de or emea hq in dublin or usa other than that in smaller markets there are not many career opportunities as the offices are small"
## [2163] "work can feel too monotonous after some time"
## [2164] "there are hardly any cons the company is amazing and it is well known to everyone"
## [2165] "as a giant google is growing rapidly however currently most of google s revenues are coming from ads there are many small projects which makes no money and is actually a little boring so you may have to consider the team carefully"
## [2166] "pace of execution is slow"
## [2167] "management was more concerned about their next move up the ladder than taking care of their team and provide good results"
## [2168] "same tasks over and over high expectations"
## [2169] "google is the place where we can have food for free and we can eat anything that we want"
## [2170] "people are over qualified for their positions"
## [2171] "unsocial environment where it is difficult to get promoted due to company politics"
## [2172] "big company structure lots of documentation required for everything"
## [2173] "mediocre middle level managers with no experience impossible to move files internally as the majority of roles are already taken before they are even advertised"
## [2174] "they only hire the best but the job itself is just like a job in any other company so sometimes you feel like your smarts skillset are being wasted"
## [2175] "not connected to city salary hike is below average not enough onsite oppportunities"
## [2176] "overly focused on internal structures and not with scalable solutions that will lead to processes or product improvements performance evaluation structure is very dependent on direct manager and how they can perform on calibration sessions over time compensation stops becoming attractive with equity grants no longer having a dramatic impact in total compensation"
## [2177] "at times the company felt slow moving and very corporate with lots of top down decision making that feels detached from the engineers on the group you never feel like you are working on the coolest google product there are so many although culture is friendly it does not feel like a family"
## [2178] "grungy work no work at times too much legacy code review cycles take too long code check in happens seldom"
## [2179] "sometimes it feels like it can be a competition to be the best since there is a lot of clever people also sometimes it feels like you are under utilized"
## [2180] "nothing major that stands out"
## [2181] "i really did not have much to complain about working at google if you want the best perks food gym other goodies you might want to join mtv headquarters"
## [2182] "too much pressure and unfair bonus process"
## [2183] "balance between family and work weekends work"
## [2184] "large company becoming very hierarchical"
## [2185] "boring work > of the employees many people complain of bad inexperienced direct managers"
## [2186] "should send at least two t shirts and more google goodies"
## [2187] "there is nothing bad about google great company for starting career"
## [2188] "no cons guys here try it"
## [2189] "not so nice to vendors very strict when it comes to vendors rules and privilege looks like they do not want to take responsibility nor want to admit vendors are one of them"
## [2190] "might be a little hard for some people working with the computers and stuff like that but eventually with the great workers there you will get the hang of things"
## [2191] "pay disparity dependant on your team"
## [2192] "poor management workaholics no balance no bonuses or comission"
## [2193] "life work balance is a challenge bubble environment long promotion cycles"
## [2194] "benefits of contractor is not good not easy to convert to full time"
## [2195] "it is a huge company but well organised the only cons i can speak of are that managing such company is hard and it could be felt"
## [2196] "its google so no cons"
## [2197] "nothing that come to my mind"
## [2198] "unfortunately the management style has degraded over the last years new managers mostly coming from consultancy companies think too small and worry about short term achievements failing and not interested in the mid long term consequences of their decisions although they say and behave as they cared about employees many of them are only looking after promoting themselves working long hours used to be an exception but it is now the norm there are massive disparities on how different teams treat their employees some areas are amazing they help employees thrive and grow while others just suck as much as they can until the employee is burned out and inevitably leaves the team or the company top down management used to be reserved for big and very strategic decisions lately is has become the norm for small changes it is really a pity to see what used to be such a great environment + years ago were people used to be motivated by values become a mediocre company were people are motivated by fear"
## [2199] "overqualified people boring jobs too big easy to get stuck"
## [2200] "middle management can be mediocre immature competition especially during promotion cycles core revenue stream is adwords sales roles are mainly around adwords"
## [2201] "too many colleagues were there for the perks and so a lot of them became complacent at work which did not make for a motivating work environment"
## [2202] "long hours and not very flexible"
## [2203] "people are not that motivated lots of politics too many internal tools and languages that are nothing like the real world ie your experience there is not that useful outside"
## [2204] "the managers micromanage more than they should and this causes the people to just keep their mouths shut their head down and just work sometimes moral is low and the managers do not realize it"
## [2205] "hard to get to work on good projects"
## [2206] "political too little coordination location not your choice"
## [2207] "low salaries middle managers too young"
## [2208] "way too much focus on building presence and personal brand management"
## [2209] "surrounded by people who are just leagues above you in terms of intelligence this can be intimidating sometimes"
## [2210] "long hours pay rate could be better"
## [2211] "the workload was very intense"
## [2212] "feel huge delta between general recognition and personal"
## [2213] "not everyone s cup of tea"
## [2214] "too many cooks no clear decision structure can be bureaucratic sometimes"
## [2215] "really stressful work more time hours"
## [2216] "looooooooooots of bureaucracy appeared as the company grew promotions are becoming extremely political and limited"
## [2217] "jobs can be done by every average high school graduate and do not require a master s degree"
## [2218] "long hours dont get to spend too much time enjoying the perks as working so hard free snacks are diet only mainly"
## [2219] "not enough slides maybe the career opportunities at a push"
## [2220] "some projects are really interesting but others are pretty boring would try to lean towards android etc and stay away from ads"
## [2221] "good company it is better otherthan"
## [2222] "working with words type illustrations and images"
## [2223] "nothing big really small things to do"
## [2224] "i would say the fast pace environment can be stressful sometimes"
## [2225] "life is quite flat in a small town like kitchener promotion is slower than in hq"
## [2226] "long hours stressful at times"
## [2227] "the rapid growth means that the company feels more and more like a corporation the fact that there are plenty of young ambitious people means a lot of folks work crazy hours and it makes it hard for those who want a good work life balance"
## [2228] "it is easy to get too comfortable given the friendly culture and the many side projects although these side projects can be a very good thing"
## [2229] "enough time and lots of works"
## [2230] "work is very tedious as a graduate engineer as you are not giving a very taxing level of work to do"
## [2231] "google has so many intelligent people it is hard to prove your skills and so intelligent that not many people want to listen other opinion except for those who are in higher position than them google took us a lots of time"
## [2232] "i haven t come across any major cons yet"
## [2233] "not for long term career"
## [2234] "it is huge so on some projects you can be a small cog in a big machine nearly everyone is an over achiever so there can be pressure to work long hours the biggest office is in mountain view where you either have to spend a fortune on rent and or commute for over an hour most of the high impact projects are centralized in mountain view"
## [2235] "too much opportunities making hard to focus"
## [2236] "you cannot survive elsewhere so do not make that mistake"
## [2237] "too many smart people in the team"
## [2238] "you are not informed about changes in the product or tools that could affect your productivity and your numbers"
## [2239] "the food is too nice to help me gain weight"
## [2240] "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"
## [2241] "none none none none none"
## [2242] "less life work balance less health care"
## [2243] "lack of new challenges in digital world like if you want to experience more about digital and social marketing google could not help you too much"
## [2244] "its too hard to work here you should be very strong for working here"
## [2245] "none none none none none"
## [2246] "getting hierarchical more and more ppl managers nowadays"
## [2247] "flat structure can get lost in the corporatism"
## [2248] "needs more people to execute at times"
## [2249] "no cons but food could be a little bit better"
## [2250] "dublin is a small city that might not be suitable for everyone high turnover of people"
## [2251] "i felt der is no down sides"
## [2252] "too far from residential cities"
## [2253] "none so far still pretty new"
## [2254] "most of the people grew within the company so it is hard to learn anything new for the same reason senior management is not knowledgeable and the company sometimes lacks strategy and vision that it is good to get from the outside"
## [2255] "extremely competitive harder to advance given the size of the company"
## [2256] "problems with work life balance very competitive environment"
## [2257] "nothing i could find but the timings changed very frequently sometimes morning and sometimes afternoon but not much difficulty faced overall a very good company"
## [2258] "some parts are not well structurized"
## [2259] "a bit of a cliquey culture in pr the comms team in particular promoted favorites and women employees faster than men often a ceiling for long term pr folks who were not favorites most men in particular had to be content with remaining a step behind regardless of results growth opportunities in pr limited"
## [2260] "hard to rise up the ranks time consuming"
## [2261] "your work becomes very functional once the company has grown so fast politics and networking are very important working hard and results may not help you to get promote or moving up in your careers if this is your first job you can get spoiled from all the perks you may find it harder to leave the company more and more competitions within the industry"
## [2262] "to always being a straight forward and easily trust someone i do not like to much talk"
## [2263] "depends on your department but can be a demanding pace and high expectations from internal and external partners smaller local team means not always as energized and bigger offices like london san fran etc"
## [2264] "the pressure to perform is very high and thus one can crumble under such pressure"
## [2265] "most decisions get made in mountain view senior folks outside the sales team in the regional offices are amazing but usually are very frustrated as the real decisions are made by medium level management in the us which is super us centric most experienced folks are overqualified for what they are hired to do"
## [2266] "hard work and long hours"
## [2267] "i will not specify the cons"
## [2268] "you have no time left for yourself and forget about any lifestyle useless travels all the time"
## [2269] "flat organization with somewhat limited promotion opportunities"
## [2270] "there are no cons really its great working here"
## [2271] "time consuming hard work stressing long hours hard very very very very very very hard"
## [2272] "too large bureaucratic at times large cashflow makes people focus on the wrong things sometimes it used to hire just the best of the best but given its size this is not always the case anymore"
## [2273] "not much cons many interns"
## [2274] "strict hours better benefits have been offered by other companies salary was unreasonable for the amount of work expected you are expected to work in a tiny cubicle lack of promotions throughout the company"
## [2275] "long hours not for everybody"
## [2276] "very flat hierarchy harder to grow inside the company not many option for non swe other than that is perfect"
## [2277] "most of the cons i think was very specific for me and i do not think that they are general cases once i started there was no project for me and i choose my project with my mentor when we were taking a walk after a fake fire alarm in the building i was working alone in my project with my mentor so I amissed working a team there i did not take any training at the beginning and i started in the project my mentor and i chose"
## [2278] "work load professional no friends culture"
## [2279] "the only con that i can think of is that I am only an intern can not wait for the opportunity to become a full timer"
## [2280] "a bit stifled as far as involvement for lower level employees would like to have more opportunities to contribute strategically and on different projects"
## [2281] "good place to develop your self"
## [2282] "it is a corporate so quite some top down management less career opportunities in small office"
## [2283] "none"
## [2284] "you need to review porn pictures and words for hours every day you can only develop super domain specific knowledge"
## [2285] "long project to finish sometimes"
## [2286] "nothing much technical anyone good with using their api tools can do it"
## [2287] "remote office as bangalore is only cone"
## [2288] "indian employees are not treated the same as usemployees"
## [2289] "poor performance review system and i am doing well within it so not bitter"
## [2290] "if you start junior it is very hard to get significant steps up in salary without getting counter offers from competitors it was one of these counter offers that caused me to leave google as google has matured there is been too much emphasis on sales operations to lead the charge"
## [2291] "need a proper guidance for work with"
## [2292] "not that great work profiles non transferable skill sets adwords focused jobs really hectic work"
## [2293] "all are good no cons"
## [2294] "google will let you balance your life but unless you are really good expectations are high and a lot of overtime will be needed to reach up the ladder google will not force you but it is still a meritocracy"
## [2295] "difficult to expedite your growth trajectory as you are working with smartest people"
## [2296] "the tacos give you gas"
## [2297] "salary low compared to other global offices but still competetive for ireland"
## [2298] "for me the location was not ideal anymore"
## [2299] "the interviews are quite tough and most of the time employees are working their minds off but yes obviously to achieve something great not too many cons to offer"
## [2300] "most people are super smart but many of them lack even basic social skills and they will drive you up the wall google is a really good large company but it is a large company creeping bureaucracy and attempts at making everything more corporate are a daily theme and if left unchecked will eventually destroy the culture people retention measured in decades has its downsides because google has been so successful the old timers see little reason to adopt engineering practices of the st century and google is slowly but surely slipping further and further behind the industry in tools and programming practices god damned open office plans the scourge of tech companies google is one of the worst offenders"
## [2301] "might be too big for fast career development"
## [2302] "competing with so many talented people"
## [2303] "work from home it is not always easy"
## [2304] "yes there are a lot of fish in the tank and you will maybe start a level below where you would start in another company and yes you may do jobs that you feel overqualified for but ultimately if you are good you will succeed"
## [2305] "i think you need to work too long to have a high salary"
## [2306] "salary not in relation to level of work expected nearly too much equal opportunity"
## [2307] "none that i see working here"
## [2308] "dont ever work till now"
## [2309] "simple work not much exciting career opportunity your experience varies based on the office position you take"
## [2310] "sometimes slow to take decisions convincing upper management on tech development can be challenging"
## [2311] "the hours are long"
## [2312] "i felt that interns should be given projects with a little bit more direction to be honest as a second year computer science student i did not know too much about google s internal architectures so expecting me to clarify my assignments was a tall order i would have been able to contribute more with a little bit more direction"
## [2313] "sometimes too many people work on the same small feature"