A recruiter offered me one of 3 product areas where she has headcount: Ads Cloud Platform Payment I've heard many horror stories about the cloud platform, but what about the other 2? Which has better WLB? #google #googleads #payments
Avoid payments at all costs. Ads is very big and probably on average the best. Cloud is so big and so new I don't know at all.
I am joining Ads so please take my words with some salt since I havent joined yet. All the facts mentioned below are facts I got from actual people either during team fit or in one case a good friend interned in one Ads Quality team. It is agreed by most people that for most teams in Ads the promo is faster at all levels at least L3 to L5 levels, a lot of people have been promoted in 2ish years consistently, there are a fair bit of L5 ads folks with 5 yoe or lesser and even L6 with 7 yoe or lesser. It is very easy to show impact here and projects have a goal in mind. So you will never miss a promo because the project wasnt important enough or your project got cancelled. The avg wlb here is a bit bad by google standards but still not bad compared to SV. You wont in general have 30 hour weeks and be able to rest and vest but you wont do 50 hour weeks either. Average bonus/refresher here is also a bit higher again because it is easier to show impact. The ads quality team uses only shallow ml models which my friend hated a lot, so more stats than deep learning. The infra team has strict serving latency requirements and hence thier infra is very complicated and sophisticated with a lot of ramp up time needed. They are located in the CL campus which according to my friend who interned their is known as Ads campus and they are the only org which has this denaracation and apparently the teams their never move out of CL campus unlike rest teams at Google. Ads is almost fully concentrated in MTV with very few teams outside of the mothership, unlike say Search/Cloud which is distributed in the Bay Area,NYC, Zurich and so on.
Any updates now how's tha team?
What horror stories have you heard about cloud ?
Lol. It's basically filled with the "Seattle stallions"
I've heard that they are constantly in a rush to add new features, services, and options. And as a result, it's hectic and has a bad WLB.