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Excellent place to work as an engineer

Staff Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 9 years
July 24, 2015
Mountain View, California
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Many projects to work on.

Lateral transfer is very easy, and expected.

Growing understanding of the importance of family, and that we're not all frat bros.

The company mission(s) are laudable.

The technology. Homegrown, and better for it.

Transparency!

Cons

Increasing amounts of bureaucracy slows engineering down a bit.

The company is now large enough to have crossed the "speak your mind" threshold, where completely free expression turns into a staggering display of what a lack of perspective can do to a person.

Advice to Management

Be more clear about what is "a clear priority" and what isn't. It's understandable at a high level, but infrastructure projects don't tie clearly to feature projects. This can be a morale-shifter to hear about "product A will really help our users" and then feel like you're not part of that on infra team B, even though product A could not exist without B.

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