Nest Reviews

Pros

Everything about them is awesome.

Pros

good company. good career development

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Great work, great team, great food,

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Great pay and benefit. Friendly staff

Advice to Management

Longer training

Pros

Compensation, Being a Part of Google

Advice to Management

Don't take on a leadership position if you can't lead

Pros

- Solid compensation, excellent benefits and great work/life balance.
- Nest's culture is somewhere between neutral to a slightly warm and casual; some people come to work and go home, others engage a bit more
- My manager is technically excellent and easy to talk to; in the past I've felt lucky when either or those has been true, so achieving both is somewhat shocking to me.
- There's lots of opportunities to play and learn about different technologies in an interesting space.
- Pleasantly surprised by my experience relative to many of the reviews here. I haven't seen anything even remotely toxic or aggressive at any level.

Advice to Management

In general, you're doing a great job. Put more effort into moving away from the 'old platforms' and focus on consolidating expertise into the 'new ones'. You should also focus on finding the right time, space and people to automate 'more and before'. Automation seems to lag behind product shipments where it's much less effective.

Pros

I have computational skills,so it would be easier to work with it

Advice to Management

Provide best online data entry jobs

Pros

awesome people with great potential moving forward

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Get to work with great people and keep up to date with the latest from vendors

Pros

Nest is the keystone of Alphabet's strategy of enabling a smart, connected and comfortable home. This has manifested in Nest going beyond its iconic thermostats, launching similarly iconic products in more categories, such as home security and safety, with many more on the way. The team is still relatively small for the scope. As a result, an individual can make a much higher impact compared to similarly sized peers with several challenging opportunities to work on . Yet, the work-life balance is great!

The quality of engineers is great, on par with Google, evident in a constant bidirectional flow of people between Nest and Google.

There are frequent team outings and fun events.

There was a period of upper management turmoil in 2016. That is far in the rear view mirror now and the current leadership has streamlined the organization. Each team has a clear charter, most have experienced leaders, and work well together.