Pros: - Great salary - Nice accommodations in office like cafes, snacks, gyms, and nice architecture - Free stuff and modern desktops/laptops with a support team - Lots of internal discussion boards about nerd stuff

Cons: - Endless treadmill of stress and wishful thinking. - My feedback to parts of Google outside of my team, such as YouTube, was systematically ignored. - Google has thousands of ways to coerce its users, especially the tech-illiterate, to fork over rights to their personal information without understanding the consequences (personalized ads, location history, notification preferences...). I realized this before accepting the offer, but I wanted the money. - If you're an engineer, you have to learn dozens of proprietary technologies which aren't magically better than anything open source just because Googlers made them, and then you get to throw away all of that knowledge when you leave. - Google might just cancel your project at any time.

Pros: Great culture. Interesting problems to work on. Great perks. Gold standard software engineering practices.

Cons: A lot of what you learn at Google is only going to be useful at Google. I've spent 3 years at Google and spent a lot of time learning about internal tools and processes that won't be useful in a job anywhere else.

Pros: Great perks, with free breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Cons: The pay is not the most competitive anymore.