Google Career Development FAQ

Pros

Great culture, great benefits, opportunity to grow in your career

Cons

Sometimes, work can take over your life, but then it's Google so who cares?

Pros

Great culture, great benefits, opportunity to grow in your career

Cons

Sometimes, work can take over your life, but then it's Google so who cares?

Pros

Good pay Opportunity to make good connections Great team culture Good mentorship Remote opportunities

Cons

No benefits as contract worker Not always the best leadership as a contract worker Repetitive work Very competitive for growth

Pros

- Coworkers are great, generally respectful and caring people who tend to look out for one another. - Some projects can involve working on very cool technology (as long as there's a clear plan to generate revenue, otherwise it gets axed).

Cons

Leadership is short-sighted, tone-deaf, and useless. All of the bizarre headlines published about Google to the outside world are just as baffling to the majority of employees inside the company. Benefits and perks have been dramatically slashed, thousands of employees are fired without notice, culture-building events such as hackathons, knowledge-sharing social events, family events and holiday parties are all pretty much gone. Travel is mostly non-existent, except for executives and product VPs. The company no longer appears to have any vision about being competitive in the future, and has gone all-in on a cost-cutting strategy to survive. C-level executives regularly respond in corporate double-speak about how they're "taking responsibility", while dodging questions that are critical of them or their decisions during TGIF (the company wide all-hands) and Town-Hall meetings. They continue to collect record-setting equity payouts, ignore critical feedback about company decisions and strategy, and have turned a blind eye to plummeting moral which is at an all-time 24yr low. Some grass-roots efforts inside the company have even being to sprout in an effort to stop the bleeding and affect some sort of positive change, but these efforts are mostly hampered by the lack of transparency and the willingness of leadership to terminate employees without notice and for sketchy or ambiguous cause. Confidence in leadership (all the way up to Sundar) is in an abysmal state, and there is no clear idea about how to make the company successful in the future. The luster of the roles it offers is quickly dissolving, and unless something incredibly dramatic happens at the leadership level, I wouldn't not expect Google to be an innovation leader in anything, within the next couple of years.

Advice to Management

I really don't know what to say. Management is exactly what is currently wrong with the company, and if current performance is any indication of management's capacity... the only correct course of action I can see is that they all for the most part need to go. I don't expect that will ever happen. I believe the company has passed the point of no return, and the fully incompetent management currently in place will ensure it doesn't go anywhere.

Pros

Fantastic exposure to new technologies and processes, continually improving how you do your job to make it easier and quicker, learning new skills, working with other departments,

Cons

Work/life balance not great, no flexibility in hours, part time or reduced hours not an option, difficult if you have to juggle childcare collections, working from home wasn't an option, opportunities for promotion limited as many managers stay in roles long term.

Advice to Management

Give more opportunity to advance in career. Consider part time or job shares for employees who are parents-that way you keep good staff who are happy and productive when in work.