Google

• Pay is competitive.
• Benefits are good.
• Slowly, the company is beginning to accept they have to accommodate remote work.
• Internal tools are pretty good.
• On-call is very quiet.
• On-callers get additional compensation.
• Most teams, on an individual level, have a good culture.

Upper management only cares about stock value. Pay, benefits, etc. have been gradually getting worse since ~2015. Decisions are extremely slow and bureaucratic. The company is a "tech island," not using industry-standard tools and instead relying on a bunch of Google-specific stuff. Development is centered around maximizing performance reviews and getting promotions. It's demoralizing having a new "evil thing" the company did in the news frequently. Work-life balance varies a lot, but it's always better than Amazon, in my experience.

• Dissolve NetPAC.
• Stop being cowardly around every decision.
• Support platforms you make long-term.
• Do social good, even if it isn't the maximally profitable choice.
• Stop focusing everything on ML, and stop firing the researchers who tell you how stupid it is to focus everything on ML. Touch grass.
• Make search suck less bad.