Pros: Lowest a-hole rating of any company I've worked at. Great compensation. Really enjoy working with nearly all engineers.

Cons: The company has really screwed up managing the (inevitable) transition on the downturn.

Pros: Good office (cafeterias, gym, swimming pool) and good perks. There are challenging and interesting projects at Google in principle.

Cons: Depending on the team, the employee experience can vary drastically from excellent to extremely bad. Late meetings, pings, etc. are unfortunately quite common. Internal mobility opportunities were always very limited in the Dublin office. Basically, your only options in engineering are to transfer between different SRE teams, which is not comparable to the USA. However, after more recent events, it became next to impossible. A lot of teams are not open to working remotely or even working from a different office on a permanent basis. Getting things done is next to impossible without a meeting. Working via emails, tickets, or docs is basically not an option, which is another reason why working remotely at Google is quite difficult. Meetings tend to be quite inefficient as well.

Pros: Good work-life balance provided.

Cons: Slow development process because it’s a big company.