Exciting work environment but struggles with work-life balance
Exciting work environment but struggles with work-life balance
There was good and exciting work, great engineers to learn from, and an overall great environment, besides all the other usual perks that Google offers. There were also good team leads and managers.
Sometimes work-life balance can be hard. There are constant changes and pivoting due to AI, since management seems to suffer a bit from AI derangement syndrome.
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