Working at Google is more than just a job, it's a lifestyle. I eat all my meals free at the office (delicious Indian food and free snacks too) and my doctor/gym/massage is all in the office. Top-tier perks like amazing health insurance, vision insurance (my optometrist was even shocked at how good my insurance was, he said it was the best he's ever seen), 401k match, etc. The office is like a city within a city. It's decorated masterfully and diverse in gender, race, and age. Googlers often bring their families (kids) to the office and their dogs. Stepping into the office is like teleporting to another universe. And there are offices in every corner of the world. Google products are the most interesting and influential in the world. If you get bored you can switch to another product. There's endless projects to pick up on. And with all that, the work life balance is the best. No on-call (I don't even bring my laptop home on weekends), 35 hours/week in a busy week and 20 hours/week otherwise, and so many clubs and events in the office to entertain yourself. The tooling and documentation is not perfect, but it is better than the rest of industry by a mile. 1 hour of work here is so efficient it is like 5 hours of work elsewhere. Lastly, the prestige is undeniable. Everyone I tell that I work at Google is impressed and treats me better. I'm proud to say I work at Google. I'm part of an elite, highly-selective club. I've worked at Amazon before (🤮) and the lack of perks and prestige basically feels like prison compared to what I have now. I will be working here forever. Why hurry to retire? I'm already at the finish line.
Bruh the vision insurance here is 💩, stop the 🧢
And then SCI came and ruined everything 😔
Google overhired in the last year and it's affected the prestige. I feel sorry for folks who got SCI though.
Yep. I was planning to interview but the freeze came. Prestige is gone though. MTV campus is great but other campuses are not that great.
Ok google
Here’s what I found on the web.
Agree with you on the office culture and perks but existing products? Other then a YouTube, Waymo, search finding it hard to find other existing products/lob I would like to work at
Chrome, Android, Cloud, Workspace (slides, docs, etc.), D&S (Pixel, Nest), Ads
Hard to hear you over all the gagging.
Stripe sir maam how big is yr package ??
8.5 inches
This is why we can’t have good things in life. 20 hour work weeks !! WTF .. on the opposite extreme apple actually makes you slave min of 40 hours in a easy week.
Not in software. I literally work like 20 hours a week and get EE.
Really? What org are you in? AMP has good wlb
I feel LinkedIn has better benefits than Google.
LinkedIn isn’t as prestigious and only has 1 product and it’s a cringey website
Lol, but LinkedIn is is hugely profitable, to the contrary to many endeavors of Google [and LinkedIn belongs to Microsoft]. Plus, Google uses LinkedIn extensively to recruit as well 🤣
This is the type of coaster that google needs to pip not the nooglers
Does Google match 100% of 401k?
Up to 10k $$. Free money
Apple is the same without the free food
Problem with Apple is that there are only US eng offices in Seattle, Cupertino, Austin (AFAIK) but otherwise I agree, Google and Apple are way above the rest.
Please do your research, we have eng offices all over the world and all over the US.