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Google is probably the best big company to work for

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for less than 1 year
June 11, 2008
Mountain View, California
4.0
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Pros

The food, the people, the development infrastructure, the energetic atmosphere, and the large-scale problems that do not exist anywhere else.

Cons

Google is starting to feel like a big company. The number of times org charts appear in meetings is constantly increasing. There is a growing necessity to deal with politics in order to promote projects and get recognition. It is getting harder to innovate in the core parts of the business.

Advice to Management

I think management needs to figure out how to satisfy the hunger of engineers who want to innovate and develop new and possibly better solutions to existing problems.

I think parts of the core business are stuck with solutions that started many years ago, and now most development revolves around incremental improvements rather than finding new and better approaches.

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