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Still one of the best companies to work for

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 6 years
May 21, 2014
London, England
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Great work culture, amazing colleagues, excellent benefits, and, most importantly, really challenging work.

Cons

After a while, you get too pigeon-holed into a specific role. Only x% of the people still get to work on awesome open source stuff; everyone else works on a giant, pretty much closed ecosystem, platform and tech stack wise.

Also, the company is getting too big, a little outside of everyone's comfort zone, with almost 0% work-life balance.

Advice to Management

While taking on more work looks good on your appraisal, a ton of actually doing it ends up on your team. Just be aware of that.

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