Politics everywhere 10 teams doing the same thing and trying to steal each other’s credit Managers hire to fire new hires because of the new perf rating system Forcing employees to come to office Pays like shit but require you to do so much work 80% people I know who work at google is busy af I don’t know how did the news that google has good wlb come from, most likely comes from hr The tech stack is not that great, everything is used only by google I know some engineers who left google doesn’t even know how to use git you have to show visibility all the time by writing endless docs and emails and meetings and write 2 lines of code ***Avoid google at all cost*** Update: Also if you recently got offer from google, don’t join! There is high chance you will be put on support checkin(pre-pip) and you won’t be able to receive the bonus in your original offer. Google stack rank everyone and refuse to admit it. Even for Amazon the first 6 months is safe for new hire, but not for google. A lot of new hires were put on pre-pip, if you are not meeting the level expectations even when you just joined 1 month they will put you on pre-pip.
10 teams doing the same thing, seems like a waste of resources
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Just look at the product spread. Way too much overlap. And that's just the public ones.
What org are you in?
OP has only worked at Google
I used to sound like this when I was there. Oh how I wish to return. Life was simpler then and my life was stable. Sundar and Satya can be my Daddies any day.
Amazon has been more stable than Google at this point
Two lines of code?? I want thy job bad.
Google was great a long time ago. Now is just another big tech co.
Used to work at Google, can’t say it’s much better outside. Anywhere you have humans and poor incentive structures, there are politics and inefficiency. Gets worse the larger the organization grows.
Ya i will take your place and have awesome wlb
True, but still better than most companies where you have all that but no perks, prestige or tc
Perk at google has been cut a lot.
So? Everyone is cutting perks so google is still about as good as anywhere