Pros: Amazing team to collaborate with, very supportive management, and interesting challenges to solve.

Cons: Ability to juggle dynamic priorities.

Pros: - Great benefits - Consistent pay - Get to use Google's services pre-COVID

Cons: The Chief People Officer controls ALL bonuses and compensation, not accountability. Poor leadership, specifically in the SWE Department. Inconsistent hiring within the SWE/Technical Department. There is NO true leadership on SWE/Hardware/Technical teams. NO career development. Schizophrenic projects with no road map or strategy. The culture is BAD. We recently made a Program Manager into a Chief Information Security Officer and up-leveled him, which is AGAINST the policy per recruiting.

Pros: Talented people working on what could be great products. Support and inherited culture of Alphabet, but with more flexibility and independence.

Cons: Leadership continually fails at basic communication around company decisions and does not, in any way, prioritize employees or culture. Despite claiming to be a startup, there are many management levels, along with all of the politics, micromanaging, and throwaway promotion-driven initiatives that come with them. There have been cost-cutting layoffs in multiple orgs, and leadership refuses to give even broad information about the scope, further contributing to a fatalistic culture. This outlook was also not helped by a round of VP promotions after the latest cuts. Equity is also a constant issue. Internal selling windows have no fixed schedule; the most recent window was canceled after weeks of employees asking for an update. Even when windows open, they are always oversubscribed, allowing the selling of only 30-50% of any shares. Despite a years-long process to separate more fully from Google, a new equity plan was still not in place by the time the previous one expired. We have been working without a plan for the last six months, meaning that a significant portion of compensation is simply not being awarded.