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Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Google for 9 years
May 14, 2015
New York, New York
5.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros

Build interesting software infrastructure in a company that values engineering.

Work with really bright co-workers and build atop an awesome codebase.

Cons

Projects in Google can become very big, very fast, as they should. But running very small, experimental projects has become more difficult, as the risk/reward equation has shifted more towards the huge expense of uncertainty, given Google's large revenues.

Advice to Management

Management already understands very well how the increasing size has created a much more cautious culture than the early Google. There are experiments like Google-X and others, but there isn't a decentralized Google-X, which is why I am now doing my own X-Google startup.

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