Google

Money. That is the only pro.

Google is the most toxic place that I have ever worked. Everyone is obsessed with levels. Yet, levels are largely determined by personal connections and stereotypes. I found out after I started that some employees had spent years researching the hiring system to game it. My coworkers were all significantly less qualified than my peers at prior jobs. My recruiter did not understand anything on my resume and pointed out that it was very different than all the resumes that she saw from entry-level men. She assumed that meant that I was less qualified than them and never considered that I was far more qualified. She kept saying things that were horrifically sexist. She attempted to route me towards a non-technical position even after I had passed the interview and gotten approval from the hiring committee.

The hiring processes are set up such that the recruiters determine someone's level, and the interviewers and hiring committee cannot fix a mistake, no matter how glaring. This results in some employees being underleveled.

• Most experienced women are underleveled by at least one level, but some are underleveled by multiple levels.
• Other employees are overleveled.

This results in an entirely toxic culture. The underleveled employees are wondering what's wrong with them that their entire careers suddenly evaporated. The overleveled employees are extremely insecure and resort to bullying the underleveled employees (mostly women and people of color) because they know that they're less qualified than the underleveled employees. Even the managers who recognize what's happening are unable to fix the problems because HR is more concerned with covering up the problem. As a result, underleveled employees are being given work far below their competence level (because HR won't allow them to get higher-level work) and told that they have to prove themselves again.

Admit that you have a problem.

Admit that women and people of color are systematically underleveled and have been for years.

Admit that all your lies have bred misogyny and racism throughout the industry.

Fix the levels of current employees who were hired at the wrong level.

Make reparations for the careers that have been destroyed or hampered.

Reduce the emphasis on levels.

Hide individual people's level and instead provide more transparency about the company as a whole. In particular, the average amount of experience for each level upon hire, broken out by gender.

Provide each employee to work to their fullest potential regardless of their level.

Clean house -- there are lots of sociopaths!

Take responsibility!!!