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Great place to work, stay out of Ops

Corporate Operations Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for less than 1 year
October 18, 2010
Mountain View, California
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Peers are sheer geniuses in their realm; a very low amount of low performers.
  • Fun.
  • Great start for college grads: the pace is fast, and learning is fast.
  • AWESOME annual bonus.
Cons
  • Middle management is very detached from the work.
  • Everything is looked at from an efficiency standpoint, and sometimes that cannot be done.
  • Indications (in ops groups) that decisions are coming from the top down rather than bottom up, as was the tradition.
Advice to Management

Re-review all of middle management in Corp Eng. and clean house! We're Google's IT and first-line dog-fooders; at the very least, empower us to do the right thing.

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