Not toxic Great work life balance One of the best pay per hours worked
Bloated. Work is not that good. Lots of coasters. Transfer learning is low because of internal tech
Just wanted to tell you how Google offers work. After the team match, you receive the offer and can then negotiate. If you receive the offer, moving back to team match is hard to impossible. be careful who you match with. TC 250k
I am physically in office 4 days (mon-thu), 5AM-7PM (Includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and workout), so effectively work 12 hours. I have a dedicated desk. During crunch time, I do this on Fridays and Saturdays (twice a quarter), helping out with high visibility customer issues. I take Fridays of...Read more
I was in very good position at AWS previously. I switched to Google because well, it was Google. My experience is not great. I was on user-facing high usage service at AWS and now I am on some internal core infra team which I have no motivation. I am given so much Google specific work that has zero...Read more
I am drinking the kool aid at the moment. I want to chug that kool aid until I drown. Pay is good, stocks went up 30% since I joined, work is fantastic, teammates are smart, and manager is caring and the whole team cares for wlb. Food is free and great, free gym, 401k free money of 11k, good health ...Read more
So transitioned to new team. I am assigned a couple of work and actually I have finished them. But I don’t tell I finished because I am already doing beyond what is excepted of me. During standup, people go around and update but no one is interested or aware what I do. I don’t understand what othe...Read more
How does google rsu refresh work. While you get rsu at offer for 4 years, when do you get new rsu for performance. For example at Amazon rsu is forward looking 2 years and based on how the stock is doing, if you have really negotiated well at offer, you can only expect new rsu at end of year 3 for y...Read more
My friend told me that Google is going to make people decide between full-time remote work or full-time at the office. Can any Googlers confirm? EDIT: What do people prefer anyway? Poll attached
Sometimes I work past 5 because I want to. My teammates say I “MUST” not work after 5 for 2 reasons: 1. If I work past 5, means I cannot finish work on time. Promotion is evaluated on my ability to execute within work hours 2. If I work past 5 and produces good results, it gives false rewarding p...Read more
“For those who are remote and who live near a Google office, we hope you’ll consider switching to a hybrid work schedule. Our offices are where you’ll be most connected to Google’s community,” writes chief people officer Fiona Cicconi in an internal memo obtained by news outlets this week. “Going fo...Read more
Let’s say that the difficulty of the interview is the same, why work for Google? Meta TC is way better, the stock movement is better, promo is faster, AI strategy is better… So why go to Google? #tech
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...Read more
I keep seeing Blind posts by Googlers about how the new GRAD system sucks and how there are toxic elements like stack-ranking being introduced now, but at the same time my Googler friends are still posting IG stories of themselves goofing off at work and in general having a chill time. What’s the gr...Read more
It’s the biggest secret amongst hiring companies. Here are the bullet points. Google resumes go to bottom of pile because: - ex-googlers struggle without all the tools at google. “At google we had this tool that…” - Are often shocked there isn’t someone else to hand off work to. “who owns writing ...Read more
Is the work of software engineers at Google really something extremely difficult? I got an offer and will start soon and I’m now mentally prepping myself and wondering if the job will be very exhausting / hard core compared to typical software developer jobs at non-FAANG companies? #engineering #swe...Read more
How is work at Google Hyderabad. i am currently interviewing with them and lately getting a negative vibe with google(cancelled promos, perf cycles and some noise around cost cutting) . Some even asked me why i was trying to change my company at all.#engineering #google Current TC: 74L INR yoe: 5.5...Read more
As mentioned in the title I am post Team Match and headed to hiring committee but today the recruiter called and asked for my zip code. When I told them, they said new compliance rules stated that my county was not approved for remote work. I gave them every county surrounding mine, and a few other ...Read more
Does Google let their employees work fully remotely? Or is it now a must to come to the office 2 days a week? #remotework #wfh
I am in a team where all of the Google Cloud developments have to go through to deploy and become accessible in users’ browsers. If our team’s system breaks, no new codes can be deployed