Pros: Everyone is great to get along with. A lot of young, successful professionals. My boss is great to work with.

Cons: The pay is not the best as an intern. I am looking forward to the big raise when I start full-time in the spring.

Pros: Salary and benefits are some of the best around. Most departments respect work/life balance. Internal mobility is good. Overall skill level of peers is very high.

Cons: Nothing that happens or has ever happened in software engineering is interesting, relevant, or good unless it happened at Google. Prior experience in "barbarian" companies is considered irrelevant or harmful. Groupthink and NIH syndrome lead to some daft decisions that are considered holy and irrevocable within the company.

Pros: The perks are unbeatable. There are intern activities like a carnival, a baseball game, an Arcade Fire concert, a 5K run, and plenty more. All of the perks available on the campus, including gyms, 3 delicious meals per day in around 20 different cafes, and random classes taught by other Googlers, are available for interns. The people you meet at Google are incredibly intelligent and always have cool ideas to talk about, and the work that Google gives you is always challenging and keeps you learning new things.

Cons: The culture tries to maintain a startup feeling, but ends up being very corporate. There is heavy emphasis on secrecy around the campus, and there are a lot of internal tools to learn before you can really become very productive. Because all three meals and so many activities are available on campus, the work-life balance becomes hard to maintain, and you end up working much more than 40 hours per week.