Google Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

Nice place to work for. Excellent work culture
Free food
Ability to switch areas
facilities and perks
pay package
brand name

Cons

There are if you think but it's best (not one of) company to work for
need to be competitive & think ahead as there are best brains you are competing with.

Advice to Senior Management

Good work.
Keep it going and we will see google as number 1 for most number of years to come.

Pros

- Work is challenging and non trivial
- Colleagues are smart
- Working at Google is fun
- Exposure to real users

Cons

Salary is lesser than what i want it to be. Even with recent salary hikes, i feel that working in remote offices is not beneficial.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to bring back the quality in hiring and products that they used to have 5 years back. Quality is what makes Google stand out.

Pros

Work with some of the smartest people on the planet. Opportunities to work on new problems and cutting edge technologies. Opportunities to innovate.

Cons

Lack of structure and direction can cause stress. The freedom can work to your disadvantage. Constantly need to reinvent yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

Stronger support for long term projects.

Pros

The working environment and the opportunities in google is very good.In terms of the career advancement google is the best place.

Cons

the downside is that the work load at the google is very high and you should work hard to achieve the target.

Advice to Senior Management

The leadership is very good at google. The leadership is very supportive to the employees and may be one of the best leadership is present at google.

Pros

1. You get to work with smart people
2. You get to work on products that affect lot of people
3. You get a lot of things off the shelf available within google
4. Competetive pay packages & bonuses

Cons

1. Nothing that you learn at google can be reused
2. Lot of sucking up. You get tired of it.
3. Peers are arrogant

Advice to Senior Management

I think they are doing a really good job. They never pisses of the really good employees who stay at google and keep on producing amazing products.

Pros

2 types of people that will find a great place to work: (1) recent college or B-school graduates looking for a first job where they can learn a lot, and (2) more senior corporate executives with many years of experience who aren't overly ambitious and are looking for a role where they can put life on auto-pilot and glide through their day-to-day activities.

Cons

There is no clear career progression, and management is arrogant.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward employees based on achievements as opposed to favoritism by one's direct line manager. Ensure that rewards / bonuses / promotions are not entirely up to one person (ie the specific team manager)

Pros

Brand Name
Brand Name
Brand Name

Cons

Kiss ass all the time to get a promotion and pretend to show that kissing ass is normal behavior. ( I moved from MV to India ==> worst mistake to do in this company)

Incompetent managers, who are just in their position because the company has grown so quickly so all the early hires are in senior position even though they don't know how to manage or lead..

Advice to Senior Management

Take neutral advice about managers from the people working under him.

Pros

Perks. Free food and other facilities.
You'll work on something that is used by millions of people. Opportunity to work with some of the best people in country.

Cons

As it has grown big, Google has become miserably stagnant when it comes to giving proper recognition to employees, during perf-cycles and promotion. They manage to suck the top brains from fresh college grads (from IITs, IISc) at a low package and yet quoting an attractive package which differs from CTC by at least 12000$ (yearly). Needless to say, these include the cost of "perks" shown at a exaggerated rate and some components which are never realized. Whereas in off-campus recruitment they make reasonably good offer (often more than double, triple the amount offered to college hires of same level) to get a candidate, even if it maybe for test-engineer position.

Work is often monotonous, and rarely helps to your career growth. Even after working for years on so-called "cool" products, but that hardly sells outside google. And if you think you're going to spend your entire career in Google until retirement, it's going to be a sure-shot peril to your technical career. So, ret rid of the pride of working in the "best company" and look for a better career for yourself.

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of pulling "great" people from outside at overpaid compensation, invest on retaining the great people you already have working in your organization.