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A wonderful experience

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 1 year
November 1, 2013
Mountain View, California
5.0
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Pros

People at Google seem happy and well taken care of.

They provide food, nap places, classes, and all sorts of fun events.

Even more, they have a mission you can get behind. The focus of most teams is to work hard and long to bring information to anyone who wants it. Even more, I felt that what I worked on was extremely interesting to me.

Cons

As an intern, I worked on an important project, but I also felt that my own contribution was relatively small due to the size of the company. I further felt a bit lost in the sheer mass of the employees. Finally, I wish I had more say about what team I wanted to be on besides "frontend" vs. "backend".

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