Google Reviews

Pros

Respect engineers in decision making.
A lot of mobility in moving into projects
Information open to everyone and transparent process
World-class peers to work with

Cons

The work-life balance is hard to achieve

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the openness

Pros

interesting work
people
benefits

overall, google is great to work for

Cons

work life balance. they work you very hard

Pros

the benefits are amazing, management understand the importance of giving employees the freedom and autonomy to work on what interests them and what they are good at

Cons

there are almost no downsides, except that it is now a big company so there are a lot of processes and procedures that need to be followed at time, although management try really hard to make these as efficient and painless as possible

Pros

-Google Full Timers are very helpful in terms of meeting with interns to give advice.
-Information is freely shared and the company is very transparent.
-Great recruiting staff that are an awesome support system for interns
-Fun perks
-Sweet pay
-Opportunities to learn and network
-Surrounded by intelligent and savvy people

Cons

Hardly any, there are literally no reasons not to intern here.

Advice to Senior Management

None, keep up the great work!

Pros

The company allowed me to achieve growth and a better willingness to learn! I was able to advance from working within groups.

Cons

It was under a 2 year (only) temporary contract. It gave little growth for promotion within the company. I would have loved to get hired in.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep giving young adults the opportunity to work for a great company. Maybe more promotional moves will be highly appreciated!

Pros

Perfect job as noticed by press.

Cons

Difficult to get an offer.

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

A large company with well known and famous mentors. Foods are free and are delicious. Lots of activities.

Cons

No particular cons I can think of

Pros

- Very intelligent co-workers.
- Many perks.
- Many learning opportunities.

Cons

- Sometimes a bit chaotic.

Pros

In the right Eng group, young engineers will learn a lot. The food is good. The bicycles are handy.

Cons

For more senior people, odds are, you're going to be waiting a long time for any kind of promotion. You will also be way older than most of the people you work with, and your manager may or may not understand family commitments. (Google in general does.)

Your manager may or may not care about you. If you get a good manager, great. If you get a lousy one, it may or may not get fixed in any reasonable amount of time, and it can be hard to transfer out if you're having any difficulty with your manager. I had the worst manager of my 30 year career there, and should have just quit after I figured that out.

Advice to Senior Management

Emulating the secrecy, siloing and hierarchy of Apple will not result in Google being as good at focus and product as Apple.

Google needs to encourage lightweight experimentation (in a way that 20% time doesn't really do, since it's often "120% time"). Once there are a bunch of organizations who all want to prevent you from launching quickly and easily, innovation suffers.

Even line engineers, TLMs, and lower level managers are not in fact interchangeable, and the company (or at least the Sales organization) shouldn't re-org every few months.

People get promotions based on politics and who sucks up to whom, not based on merit.