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Work with some of the smartest people in the field, but with a very corporate feeling

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 1 year
July 30, 2014
Mountain View, California
4.0
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Pros

The perks are unbeatable. There are intern activities like a carnival, a baseball game, an Arcade Fire concert, a 5K run, and plenty more.

All of the perks available on the campus, including gyms, 3 delicious meals per day in around 20 different cafes, and random classes taught by other Googlers, are available for interns.

The people you meet at Google are incredibly intelligent and always have cool ideas to talk about, and the work that Google gives you is always challenging and keeps you learning new things.

Cons

The culture tries to maintain a startup feeling, but ends up being very corporate. There is heavy emphasis on secrecy around the campus, and there are a lot of internal tools to learn before you can really become very productive. Because all three meals and so many activities are available on campus, the work-life balance becomes hard to maintain, and you end up working much more than 40 hours per week.

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