Google Reviews in San Francisco, CA Area

Pros

Great benefits, smart people, good connections, looks great on resume, interesting projects, provides transportation if applicable, lots of resources and funding for projects

Cons

Hierarchical, lots of levels of management, not a design focused company, "the more features the better" perspective, some copying of other startup ideas.

Advice to Senior Management

focus on new products are are simple and innovative rather than stuffing every possible feature in each product.

Pros

You will have a chance to work with some of the smartest people in the industry

Cons

No real cons, but you have to be very good and productive to keep the job

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up guys!

Pros

Amazing culture, great opportunity to learn.

Cons

Limited opportunity for vertical career growth.

Pros

great place to work but need to have more pay for the work they give

Cons

More work... not much pay..

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more benefits to employees

Pros

Great perks, people, great products and lots of flexibility

Cons

Goolge has to win over it's competitors: Apple and Facebook if it is going to continue to grow and still have a stock that keeps going up!

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the great work! Dont acquire Twitter

Pros

Energetic, passionate talent pool; way above average perks & benefits; fair compensation for young workforce; Having bragging rights about working for the best place in the US

Cons

While young employees tended to feel compensated fairly for their work, peers with more experience felt salaries were low and perks were overrated. There was little opportunity for advancement in management for non-MBAs.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote from within more frequently. Develop the young workforce, and be sure to recognize individual contributors.

Pros

The people are the best reason to work for Google. Everyone is smart and brings their A game. The team culture is great if that's how you like to work, but tough if not. It's a very collaborative environment. It's filled with smart people who have personality (at least in sales).

The food is outrageously good.

Cons

It's not a small company anymore and it's easy to feel more like a number than a name. Because the change is so often and rapid, you may find yourself working for someone who did not hire you, which can be an issue.

Advice to Senior Management

Utilize employees for their greatest strengths.

Pros

The perks are just amazing. Their health plan is especially very generous. The people are incredibly smart and excited about their projects.

Cons

The working environment is not very friendly, there is an air of arrogance. The recruiting and HR processes are especially slow and tedious.

Advice to Senior Management

Google focuses on hiring the "right" (googley) people, but lately this has degenerated into hiring the smartest people who not necessarily pleasant to work with. Steer the focus back on being Googley, possibly by requiring one non-technical/behavioral interview question, such as "talk about how you handled a conflict with a particularly difficult coworker?" The interviewer should then drill into the details of the example to make sure it was a true story.

Pros

learning,networking,growth,money, perks and other benefits

Cons

it is very hectic. need to keep up.

Advice to Senior Management

Gud job

Pros

Culture - there really are amazing people working at Google and the culture seems to have been deliberately created to make a stimulating, team-oriented environment.

Benefits - the benefits are top notch from free meals, to stocked up snack rooms, to excellent 401k matching and flexibility as far as work-life balance. As the company's matured over the last few years, some of the more extravagant things are getting cut out however.

Cons

Ambiguity - it's still a young company and the transition from on-fire web start up to mature company with Q/Q responsibilities to shareholders isn't entirely clear. As a result, you have to be comfortable with an unclear career path.

Management Divide - I don't feel that management involves employees further down the chain in company-level strategic decision making as much as they should.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees more.