Google Reviews in Hyderabad, India Area

Pros

-Benefits are second to none.
-Senior leadership is out of this world (Larry, Sergey...at that level).
-The new CEO Larry is very inspirational in his new role.
-You come to work every day thinking I am so proud to be here.
-An ethical company that truly believes in it's motto, 'do no evil.'
-You just don't want to leave the company because you are so much in awe of senior leadership and the direction in which the company is headed.

Cons

-Middle management in the sales side of things needs a major revamp. Absolutely no regard for career development, work-life balance. Faulty and biased performance appraisal. Extremely non-Googley. The middle management lacks in people development skills and are too busy trying to push themselves up to bother about their reports. No recognition for rewards in the sales teams and as long as you are in the favored circle of the manager, your career is made.

-While senior leadership in MV is extremely supportive of feedback, speak out to your local leaderhsip and you ring the death knell of your career at Google.

-The sales side is turning into a nightmare with the sales HR in turn unable to turn things around or raise critical employee issues and thus resort to delivering lip service to employees. The senior leadership in MV needs to take a serious look into this.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers/HR in the operations side are way better, more humane, genuinely caring towards their reports. The sales managers and sales HR need to learn from the operations managers/HR.

People are sticking to the company because they love the company, its senior leadership (aka Larry, Sergey etc) not the middle management. This needs to be understood.

Pros

Good food, great perks, great working culture

Cons

Middle order managers, not enough scope to move teams

Advice to Senior Management

Middle order managers need do much better.

Pros

needless to say - very very smart, innovative people. techies - who love their work! Encouraging people and very competitive environment.

Cons

Work culture is very different from the US offices where you have a lot of flexibility in work. Bad work-life balance.

Pros

innovative and creative work culture.
Amazing opportunity to learn from peers.
A huge asset on your CV.
Well paid better than industry standards

Cons

You end up working on some internal projects which might be very challenging but do not let you satisfy the startup spark in you

Advice to Senior Management

An amazing experience at Google.
Very focussed with rich work culture and ethics.
Though its a huge organization, yet their ability to maintain that culture is quite surprising.

Pros

Great place to start work - I moved to Google straight from college, and it is a great place to start work. Helps you get associated with a work environment.
Management is quite clear in its communication, and decisions are made keeping in mind the business needs.

Cons

Managers - Anyone who has worked at Google will agree that the managers are below par. I wouldn't admit is is true in all cases. However, the average manager at Google, just doesn't have the leadership skills required.

Lack of transparency from mid management - While the top management is quite clear/transparent with it communications/plans, it is totally absent from mid-management. Again, the issue is with managers. Most managers are busy driving their personal agenda, and they often neglect others' growth in the company. Promotion criteria is totally biased towards 'favourable employees' being more favoured.

Career prospects - Google isn't a place for long term career planning. After a point in time you are stuck, and your role leads you no where, and some of the operational-role based teams aren't sure about the direction of the team. Discussing this with your manager is of no help because the manger simply doesn't have the time for such career enhancement talks.

Overall, Google is headed towards being any other big organization with bureaucracy ranging from lunch table to promotions to reviews.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management is highly competitive, and is focused on building the company. Keep up the good work. However, please ensure the career goals of those working at the company are met. And yeah, did I say improve the quality of managers.

Pros

The work atmosphere is great and the company makes effort in taking care of the employees.

Cons

Google needs to do a much better of matching the skillset of employee and the role being offered.The

Advice to Senior Management

The management should always remember that managing people is very critical apart from managing business.