Pros: Excellent meals. Generally a great work environment. Superb internal tools. Folks are nice. Very low pressure environment.

Cons: Lots of talent there, but not always clear what to work on. Warehouses full of shelf-ware. Many half-baked projects start and are vaporized when they lead nowhere. This is a good strategy for Google; as a monopoly, they can start a thousand projects. If a couple turn out well, they write the others off, as their giant cash machine covers all costs. One beef: it's harder being older there. Explicit ageism was very rare, but there was a strong strain of "let's celebrate youth" – the famous "take your parents to work day." Once in a while, I was on the receiving end of some condescending nonsense as an "unwoke" ancient. It's precious snowflake central – nice kids – but they've no clue how the rest of the working world works.

Pros: High pay and nice people.

Cons: Work you too hard and mean leadership

Pros: Best benefits, best co-workers, and a very good culture generally speaking.

Cons: A lot of management hirings from Wall Street are damaging and destroying company culture gradually.