Pros: Great and smart people to work with. Compensation & benefits. Good training/onboarding. Sophisticated technical solutions. Huge potential for personal/skill growth. Great work-life balance.

Cons: Extreme learning curve in regards to internal tooling. Lots of legacy code and extremely hard-to-deal-with frameworks that make development feel more like crawling. Bad incentive structure / Design doc-based culture. Senior management is completely disconnected from engineering.

Pros: Very good environment and very good peers.

Cons: Work-life balance is somewhat annoying.

Pros: Free food, nice offices, and resources for mental health that you'll probably need after working there for a while.

Cons: In my experience, the focus has been on rushing something out the door. Not necessarily something good, or something completely functional (even for the minimal features in the MVP), just something. Frequently, software is rushed, testing is skimped on, and higher-up engineers are unwilling to learn modern software development practices to improve software performance, reliability, developer experience, and user experience. If you do not like to cut corners, do not work at Google. After spending 4 years here, being told by 3 managers that I care too much about my work and spend too much time making it right (while simultaneously being dinged on perf for it being 'not right enough'), and witnessing Google's willingness to protect sexual abusers and the bottom line over its purported values, the veneer of friendliness seems very disingenuous.