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An amazing place to work, becoming increasingly large and corporate

Corporate Operations Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 2 years
July 17, 2017
Mountain View, California
4.0
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Pros

Working in IT, Google scale is absolutely amazing.

Ability to change nearly anything.

Manageable bureaucracy, given the size of the company.

Food. Benefits.

Cons

Cost cutting feels apparent since Ruth Porat became CFO.

A huge amount of employees can make it feel very impersonal, and the experience you have is much more dependent on the team you join than anything to do with the company itself.

Focus on performance reviews and promotions can be debilitating and cause people to focus on the wrong things.

Senior management on my team was based on a different continent and felt disconnected.

Advice to Management

Keep the classic Googley culture alive. Even in my 2.5 years, I could see it dwindling a bit.

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