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Payments Processing at Google Boulder, CO

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 2 years
April 3, 2017
Boulder, Colorado
1.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

Great salary. Great benefits. Great food. Great location. Some really great people.

Cons

Don't expect to see great code. Expect a mess that everyone is struggling to understand, caused by a fast pace, rapid turnover, and some really spectacular bad past design decisions that make things very hard to trace. These decisions are now deeply embedded and would be very hard to remove.

Having said that, if this is your thing, great. They will reward you handsomely to help keep them afloat.

The company is extremely PC. But you already knew that.

Apparently, there's surveillance of personal email/networks. I can't prove it, but I was creeped out too many times.

Advice to Management

Slow down. Build a stable team. Stop hiring physicists. Hire experienced fin-tech people.

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