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Loads of Commitment for Slightly Above-Average Pay

Growth Manager (App Developer Sales)
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 4 years
April 9, 2021
Redwood City, California
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Above-Average Pay

Good People for the most part

High-quality Ad Products to sell (relative to competitors)

Solid 401k match and benefits

Global work community

Indirectly supports Alphabet's attempts to solve existential human challenges

Cons

Below average vacation days (inconsistent depending on country)

Wolf-in-sheep's clothing managerial styles and psychological tactics

Undeniable workaholic culture, despite internal rhetoric to the contrary

"If it ain't completely broke, don't fix it" mentality with internal and external products

Under-staffed (at least in sales), resulting in excessively high client ratios

Under-resourced, creating productivity and scoping dilemmas

Advancement can be impossible if you are on the wrong team, at the wrong level, with the wrong manager

Advice to Management

Re-evaluate your workloads against the average rate of burnout.

Re-evaluate how much revenue or how many clients managed per person is "necessary," and then lower this target.

Don't perpetuate work cultures where workaholism is implicitly or explicitly championed as the 'normal' worker state. Even the workaholics are showing signs of burnout!

Encourage your product & policy leadership teams to proactively anticipate, respond to, and solve for problems before they snowball into much larger issues that create massive side-effects and productivity drains for other teams (especially client-facing teams).

Be more proactively transparent internally about ethical challenges facing Google, so we hear about them from leadership before we read about them in the media.

Continue taking employee feedback to heart and making significant changes based on that feedback. Don't stop at reminding employees that you are listening; show demonstrable improvements & beneficial actions after they have been achieved.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
4.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
2.0

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