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Good place to work if you like large companies

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for less than 1 year
May 12, 2009
Mountain View, California
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Great work environment.

Especially software engineers are highly enabled and valued within the company.

Many different products to work on.

Lots of smart people.

Great benefits and free food.

Cons

Little influence on which area you get assigned to at first.

Probably not much of a financial upside at this stage.

Takes an extremely long time to get up to speed and feel productive.

Advice to Management

Give new hires more control over which area to work in.

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