QA Tester • Former Employee
Pros: Excellent QA tester colleagues to work with.
The majority of the project leads are also excellent.
Cons: Except for the "yes person" colleague type. Certain people with authority pretend to be your friend so you get work done.
If they don't have any work for you, they completely ignore you.
The only way to get ahead is by hanging on to certain people with authority's side all the time, including following them wherever they go, even if you don't have access to enter that specific area.
That's the toxic work environment, favoritism relationship which has perks because they get covered when they miss an important blocker issue (purposely) on a Release Candidate BUILD.
Ironically, they even criticize that person with authority on Slack direct messages (I have screen caps). They say, "I'm doing their work all the time. They don't know what they're doing."
Well, of course, you will do all their work if you always say yes to them.
That's why the IAP crash for iOS was never written. They even showed the crash to me but said they were too busy doing the lead's work to write it. Obviously, it was cross-verified after I wrote it because they showed it to me.
That's typically the toxic behind-the-scenes work environment.
You also get cheated out of your weekend overtime hours because the "close buddies" don't want you there on the weekend.
Coincidentally, there was overtime because the tester never wrote the crash, and they came up on some extra money since that tester purposely neglected to enter the issue into the database.
Yet I wrote the issue for Google and lost money. How ironic.