Google

Perks are top-notch. Medical care, including mental and LGBTQ health, is very comprehensive. Coworkers are all very strong and good at collaboration.

Mass layoffs. I was impacted by it – 12,000 people. For me, I was working remote and logged into my work computer to be redirected to a webpage where I was told I was laid off. My manager didn't even know I was gone until later in the day.

It can be stressful and hard to achieve the productivity levels that are required to get advancements in a job, and not every opportunity is given to everyone, which made it particularly hard for me.

I knew coworkers in other places who had awful management, though it didn't apply to me.

This is specifically to upper management. I think what you did laying everyone off is a slap in the face to all your employees, especially the callous way you did it.

Getting laid off during record profits while hiring is currently going on really leaves me, and other now-ex-coworkers I've talked to, feeling on edge.

I wanted to work here partly because of the relative safety once I got in – that I would at least be considered in some kind of layoff, but I really wasn't.

There was a promise of being somehow different, and I wanted to believe in it, but the reality is absolutely the same as any other FAANG company – it's all a facade.