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Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 6 years
January 28, 2018
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5.0
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Pros

Google's an amazing company to work for. The perks are incredible, the compensation is top-notch, and your peers are all smarter than you. There's never a doubt when asking someone to do work if they can get it done; the question is how long.

You could spend your entire career here and work on a variety of problems.

Cons

The company's bread and butter is advertising, and it can feel hard sometimes to move away from that. You hear about amazing projects like self-driving cars and solar roof tiles, but in practice, the day-to-day can feel like steering an incredibly slow-moving ship whose cargo is advertisements and money.

Advice to Management

You've got the top talent. It's a worthwhile investment of your time to make sure all of your employees are working on the right team within the company. This can be very self-driven, but it helps both your employee and your team to have people working on the problems they're passionate about.

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