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Fantastic company, great career path, company values, and work/life balance!

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 2 years
August 24, 2012
Irvine, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great crowd, knowledge base, and infrastructure. Amazing benefits, minimal bureaucracy, and transparency. The company genuinely cares about its employees' happiness, and the result is a very happy and fun place to work at.

Cons

Steep learning curve. Be prepared to constantly adapt and refactor code. Getting tasks done is a bit harder than usual here, as there are a lot more things to take into consideration, such as scale, security, testing, etc. (but granted, they also yield a lot better results than in other places). It gets better with time, though.

Advice to Management

Continue to improve internal tools & libraries and make them as easy and fun to use as the public APIs we provide!

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