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Google: a dream job for the right kinds of engineers

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for less than 1 year
June 12, 2008
Seattle, Washington
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Pros

Work with many of the brightest people on some of the most challenging problems.

See your efforts noticed in the media and in the lives of your friends and family every day.

Engineering at Google is, more than ever, a dream job for the right people.

Think really, really big! There are terrifyingly few limits to what you can do here.

Cons

Competing with many of the brightest people can be frustrating. You will not be "the expert" on more than one topic, no matter how smart you are.

Google is a big, globally distributed company, and we have not yet solved all the problems that follow from that.

Advice to Management

Keep Google nimble and the organization flat. Put more effort into the global teleportation network.

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