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Google is a great place for engineers

Staff Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 20 years
February 10, 2017
New York, New York
4.0
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Pros

Very smart people and a very high density of smart people. So you don't have to find a smart person out of ten in order to have your question answered.

Cons

Some of the smart people stay with their project forever. They have a 'lock' on the project, they make themselves indispensable so they don't have to push or invent.

Advice to Management

People can move from one project to another after 2 years. This is a very good policy. It makes it easy for people to move without keeping the project in constant ramp-up mode.

Consider another policy: make it mandatory for engineers to move after X years (5-7). This would solve the above problem.

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