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All around great

Senior Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for less than 1 year
September 19, 2021
Waterloo, Ontario
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  • Compensation
  • Benefits
  • Office perks
  • Products with billions of users
  • Public commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and the environment
Cons

It's a large company now and has lost its ability to move fast (product dependent).

Increased bureaucracy: Getting anything of consequence implemented requires 10+ types of reviews (code, design, a11y, privacy, SRE, logging, legal, QA, support, i18n, capacity, security, leadership), many of which have overburdened and slow reviewers.

Senior staff and managers spend ~40% of the year doing performance review tasks in the background (self-assessments, peer feedback, calibration, promo committees).

Mostly use internal proprietary tech, which comes with an increased maintenance burden through technical mandates and deprecations.

Advice to Management

Stop being a tech island

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
4.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
4.0

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