Pros: 1. Relatively good salary and company-wide benefits. Although not exceptional anymore. 2. Good job stability so far. 3. Good work/life balance.

Cons: 1. Authoritarian low-level management. Management in Google is an Asian, Chinese-style. Your leads, not even managers, have complete power over you but no accountability. You are not working with them; you can only obey them. 2. No respect to engineering work. When I told my new manager that I prefer more engineering-type work, she promptly suggested I should leave the company. They need facilitators. 3. No diversity. Google is dominated by Chinese now. Our team of 13 hired 5 people, all Chinese. Now we have only 3 non-Chinese members out of 18 people. Probably, issue #1 stems from there.

Pros: Free food, great coworkers, great development opportunity.

Cons: Can end up working extra hours more often than not if chasing a promotion, which is likely normal.

Pros: Obviously, the salary and benefits are incredible. Flexibility in being able to move to new offices or visit offices around the world is incredible. Plugging into a huge, influential machine and working with people from around the world? Amazing.

Cons: Don't expect to do anything significant while working at Google. People are constantly nitpicking each other over irrelevant nonsense during code reviews; there's a very antagonistic culture in a lot of teams (not all). There's also an antagonistic promotion structure: "We have 2 slots for promotion, so even though 3 people earned it, we have to choose 2." Expect to be constantly re-orged. Expect your projects to get cancelled when a new C-suite guy slides in from Microsoft, shakes everything up for no reason, and then slides laterally out into Oracle next year. Get excited for managers who don't want to manage people; they wanted to get promoted and were told they could only do that by taking on direct reports. Get REALLY excited for that. Get stoked for a diminishing culture and ever-decreasing transparency. Bye Google. Hope you figure out your shit.