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It's very hard to land on projects that benefit your career

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 2 years
July 24, 2013
Mountain View, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Benefits are good.

Shuttle transportation can be useful for many people.

Occasionally there are interesting talks, but conference rooms are often way too tiny.

Cons

The interviews are really bad for the applicant: you learn nothing from what you will be doing and are interviewed only by people from completely different areas of expertise than yours.

If you decide to come here, expect to have 5-6 layers of management above you. Unless you are a big shot or manage to get a strong ally, you often get the promise of leading some significant project, only to be exchanged without notice with more "experienced" people.

Only a minority of engineers get to do the interesting stuff: Google+, Knowledge Graph, etc. If you are part of the other 99%, things are less exciting and the lower your rank is, the less freedom you have.

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