Pros: Free food, amazing colleagues, interesting projects, salary.

Cons: Layoffs are stressful. Sometimes, egotistical managers can ruin the experience.

Pros: Good culture, good work-life balance.

Cons: Not enough ownership, not enough open source.

Pros: Wide range of products to work on, good food, good benefits, good co-workers, and great offices that are mostly empty.

Cons: The CEO, Sundar Pichai, is far out of his depth, and his hand-picked cloud leadership is incompetent. Yet, executives are still being hired at an incredible rate. These executives are unfortunately not skilled enough to set direction at the company, or they are unable to set a sane, user-focused direction (see Meet, Meet, and Meet Legacy). To gain past Level 5, you have to find unfunded work outside of your org and hope that it gets you promoted instead of laid off. Work events and team-building events, inside and outside of Google, have been shut down for almost 3 years now, with no sight of them coming back. Over half of the people in the company have been hired during this time, meaning that the industry-leading company culture is long dead with no sign of return. From a technical side, Google avoids new technology and holds onto outdated technology. This means to be competitive externally, you have to spend your free time learning all of the new technology that Google doesn't use.