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Great Pay, Terrible Politics

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 2 years
August 17, 2015
Mountain View, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Great internal tools.

Pay is great.

Other companies will want to pay you lots of money if you worked here because they think it means something.

Cons

Supply and demand applies. Everyone's very talented, so the ability to achieve is worthless. Those who excel are those who monopolize and hoard scarcer resources (approvals, visibility). Office politics is 90% of the job.

Advice to Management

Fix the onboarding. I feel like there's a conspiracy of the old timers against the new. Constant turnover hides this fact.

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