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Senior management cares only about creating a good appearance of a healthy company

Staff Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for 20 years
September 26, 2021
Mountain View, California
3.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • still lots of great & smart people to work with, but the numbers are dwindling
  • Some tech and dev infra is really cool and ahead of its time
  • Company brand that still means a lot to many
Cons

Lots of great people are leaving and being replaced by people that are very junior, or with senior people with values that didn't use to be common at Google.

Senior management is often more interested in just creating an appearance of a happy and healthy company, rather than actually solving some hard problems.

A lot of technical debt is increasingly hard to address due to the scale of the company.

In spite of increasingly making more and more money, management invests less and less back into the company and its employees.

Advice to Management

Add "Don't be evil" back to the corporate code of conduct.

Revisit the company values.

Invest heavily into the core infra and people that power the company.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
3.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
2.0

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