Google Reviews in Dublin, Ireland Area

Pros

Free food and great working environment

Cons

The management und processes sometimes seem to be a unstructured.
The promotion process is usually very formal and inflexible.

Advice to Senior Management

don´t be too political when making HR decisions

Pros

Access to internal knowledge bases, opportunity to work with some major engineering celebs, bleeding edge infrastructure, a lot to learn from the experience.

Cons

If you care about your professional relationships more than computing then go work somewhere else because many people you'll meet there are brainwashed beyond recovery and in the long run it's hard to put up with. Career opportunities are a myth.

Pros

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

Cons

- Sometimes a bit chaotic.

Pros

Defo the people that are there : They are all bright minded, clever and extreme various background which makes a very brain challenging environment.

Cons

Well Google is attracting all the A level people so be ready to cpmpete harshly in order to get a promotion and a decent job.

Advice to Senior Management

Be friendly but not too much, be diplomatic but don't hide too much the reality

Pros

Free food & drinks.
Nice physical work environment.
Free alcohol during (very rare) after-work parties.
Smart and friendly colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
Good brand name on the CV.

Cons

Only senior managers on this worldwide project are direct Google employees. Everyone else is a temp employed by a vendor, who are clueless about what the job involves.
Vendors fire temps based on faulty performance statistics.
Temps seem to have zero opportunities to become permanent and direct Google employees.
Temps are only told at the last minute whether their contracts will be renewed.
The vast majority of temps are ridiculously overqualified for the job or are not interested in the field they are working in: boredom is endemic.
All temps, regardless of time in the job, skill, performance, responsibilities, previous work experience or academic qualifications are paid the same hourly rate. There are "prizes" for high performers but these are non-monetary and patronizing.
The churn rate of temps is high: just as you start to get to know people they quit for better jobs.
Temps learn absolutely no skills that will be useful in future jobs; even the main application that they use is custom-made for internal Google use.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not allow vendors to falsely advertise positions as being more interesting or technical than they actually are: hired temps will rapidly become bored and frustrated.
Make it clear to temps at the beginning what the prospects of contract renewal or permanency are.
Stop hiring people who are too qualified for the job.
Introduce meaningful performance rewards.

Pros

The best things are the free exchange of ideas, the informal working environment, the opportunity to pursue your own projects

Cons

There's a very strong focus on visibility on a team. Sometimes you could find yourself doing something for the sake of visibility - not it's usefulness.

Advice to Senior Management

As the company grows, bureaucracy and formality are taking their toll. For example when I started managers didn't have PA - now they all do...

Pros

Food, Gym, People, Office, Internet

Cons

Long work hours, poor middle management

Advice to Senior Management

retain top talents in the company.

Pros

Great company to work for

Cons

decision making process, promotions, internal mobility and availability of job positions in the US headquarter in Mountain View

Advice to Senior Management

I have nothing to advise to a higher management of Google at the moment.

Pros

- Smart, fun and higly competent people. 95% of the people working at Google are impressive persons.
- Perks. Free everything. Whatever you need, it's there. You named, you have it. Food, gym, snacks, coffe (proper italian espresso machines), tech gear, games room, massages, etc. Discounts in almost every external service you need. Good health insurance.
- Still a nice badge in your CV.
- Access to cool projects and betatesting of awesome technology. If you like the online world, you will love this.
- Your co-workers will be your friends (for the good and the bad).

Cons

- Overqualification of the people. The hiring bar is too high so you will end up having a worse job than anywhere else. Still good paid though.
- Online Sales is "maturing". To do so they are hiring people with strong consultancy experience with not much experience in the online world. They are destroying the culture and introducing a lot of bureacracy.
- Even if you are a super strong performer you will need to be at that level for more than 18 months to get promoted while they hire less qualified people at the next level. This generates a lot of frustration.
- Dublin, Wroclaw and Hyderabad offices are "call centers" rebranded to international offices. If you are not a manager at these offices, think twice before you sign your contract.
- The sales organization wanders in the wilderness. There's no vision, no clarity of what's next and senior management is not helping much. The only solution is to reorganize the whole structure every quarter (the last quarter they were 3 reorgs affecting my team).
- Your life and work will be blended. Once one of them goes wrong, your life will be miserable.

Advice to Senior Management

- Value talent. Reconsider the hiring bar level.
- Evaluate how to introduce some flexibility in the HR policies.
- Trust internal knowledge and don't rely completely in external hirings.
- Define a vision and communicate it to everyone in the organization.
- Reconsider expending some of the free cash flow internally and do not buy every other start up in the bay area.

Pros

compensation package is very strong, bonus structure is very strong and also very fair, good team atmosphere and team environment.

Cons

as the company is scaling in a very large way, getting promoted is now a very long process and can be quite frustrating

Advice to Senior Management

it's important to continue to maintain clear communication with employees to ensure satisfaction and help them to understand that they're work is valued.