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Great Balance, Slow Reviews

Software Engineer(Internship)
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 1 year
May 14, 2022
5.0
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Pros
  • Great work-life balance
  • Great coworkers
  • Great experience

I cannot express how great this was. Every week my team had a teambuilding exercise where we played board games on Board Game Arena. There were online chats for talking with other members of Chrome. There were events, endless resources, and great support.

Cons

Cons:

  • Imposter syndrome
  • Interview process (specifically project matching phase)
  • Slow code review system

I don't have many cons. Most of them were not the job, but byproducts of them. I felt imposter syndrome a lot at this job, but that's not really a con of the job; I've heard this is very common. The project matching phase is terrible and stressful. This is the process of finding a team that will take you on. Code reviewers can also be slow and slow things down, which can make the internship hard, since you can usually only work on one CL at a time as an intern, just due to having one project.

Advice to Management

None, but if Seb is reading this, you were a great manager :)

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
5.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
5.0

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