Pros: Great work-life balance, smart people, and different teams.

Cons: Things move pretty slowly, with a lot of red tape.

Pros: Good life balance. Great colleagues and collaboration culture.

Cons: Slow development and slow promotion

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).