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Great people and benefits, but too much bureaucracy

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for less than 1 year
July 2, 2021
Seattle, Washington
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Colleagues are as a rule friendly, helpful, and intelligent.

Easy transfers between projects and organizations, with many different and interesting problems to work on.

Great office benefits. Global presence makes travel and work easy. Good pay.

Great work-life balance if you want it. There is little danger in getting managed out. Good (but slow) advancement opportunities as an IC or EM if you want to work hard.

Cons

So much process and bureaucracy. Most of it is well-intentioned, but project planning and launch is very CYA.

Slow-moving by default. Everyone is capable of being very productive, but moving fast doesn't seem rewarded much more than moving slow.

Giant company, no individual project gets much exec attention or moves the needle much on P&L.

Advice to Management

Admit to yourselves and employees that Google is not the fun-loving, fast-moving startup it used to be.

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