Pros: Coding workflow and tools are streamlined and integrated, allowing you to focus on coding, solving problems, and working with team members.

Cons: You usually work on technically fairly small things because it's a giant company with a lot of resources.

Pros: - Good company culture/work-life balance and nice coworkers, but depends heavily on specific teams and managers. - Great benefits, free food, gyms, etc.

Cons: - Lots of senior leadership brought in from traditional firms that are deteriorating the company culture. - Conflicting narratives from leadership, with them forcing RTO but also cutting office costs at the same time.

Pros: Smart bunch of people, projects that impact millions, leadership willing to take a long view that might take years to pay off, fair scope for decision making even at the bottom of the org chart. Offices, food, and benefits are all icing on top. Amazing opportunities to do big things if you can make the pitch and execute on it.

Cons: The promotion process can be slow and painful. You have to be a self-starter to identify a team with opportunities for growth and be really proactive about chasing these. Working in remote offices can be difficult from a career point of view, depending on what projects are available. Every project I've worked on has felt somewhat Mountain View-centric; you have to adapt to that. Obamacare is dragging health benefits down (across all companies, or so we're told).