Google

What they say is true. It's a great place to work. Compensation and work/life balance are excellent. Colleagues are top-notch engineers. Decision-making is mostly sound.

Google has become a bit overly politicized. Communication over internal messaging often carries a disrespectful tone. People pass this off as openness and transparency, but this stuff could be communicated much more professionally. Blunt is okay, rude is not.

All that said, the culture issues are macro-level. Within teams, people are almost always respectful of each other. It's a quite good environment.

Leadership should emphasize respect and our shared mission, and de-emphasize politics. This will help keep our organization cohesive as we grow larger.