Google Senior Developer Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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I hope Google does well for a long time so I can stay just as long.
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Mostly positive except for the executive team, which is disorganized and incompetent.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They care about Google's culture
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When they keep out of my way
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Sundar Pichai is a very good man, he gives a lot of benefits to his employees. It is is a very fun and profound experience working at Google.
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They are helpful in question
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They Empower me to be better!
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Diversity and equal pay and opportunity for women and minorities. Salary transparency.
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The bar for managers has been lowered. A lot of people gaming the promotion system! Lack of transparency in promotions!
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Needs more solid product direction, less chasing the new shiny thing.
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The leadership team of my department needs to get better at communication skills because it can be very confusing in the tasks each person gets. My team needs to be more organized for us all to be notified of the task going on.
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People are pulled in too many directions.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Life insurance, Stock refresh, Free Wifi, Free Gym, etc
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The equity is very nice.
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It is the best I love it very much.
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Great with more room to grow the more you know
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It is very amazing in terms of the money
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
8 years and never promoted. Slotted on a career ladder with less pay and opportunity than my less experienced colleagues.
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too much work and not enough time
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Not enough equity refreshers. Slow promotions!
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Under paid for my skill level.
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Base is too low... Stock refreshes are not following market rate
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Exciting goals/milestones, cool projects and lot's of interaction with developers
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The people who "get it" and don't need to be explained to over and over again.
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They are very cooperative, hard-working, Hilarious, and fun to work with.
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Smart people who are dedicated
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have a bunch of nice coworkers
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Google "lifers" have to go; they know how to abuse the system and do that shamelessly.
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I feel there is too much back and forth with meetings.
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My team is full of politics and demotions are a thing here.
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Politics and lack of clear direction, can make things hard to get done and cause conflicts.
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Make more of an effort to show up to in-person meetings.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Everyone is friendly and people help each other
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The culture of trying to help each other out and building things.
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free stuff all over the campus
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Smart people. Gorgeous men and women in business.
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They are amazing, and they always have a positive attitude.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Stop paying lip service to diversity and inclusion and actually make change instead of defending failure to be equitable
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Hire nicer people. attitude means more than ability
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Less politics! More transparency !
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Too many external execs bringing in bean counting culture. Too many execs with honesty problems.
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We could focus a bit on the individualistic approach to employees, such as remembering their name.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Nothing. It was painful, hard and I felt stressed
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Standardizing on rubrics to try to bring some objectivity to the process.
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personalized updates from the recruiters
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They are amazing people that find hardworking people
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Smart interviewers. Down to business.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Cultural fit is too highly valued given the current company culture. There used to be a value placed on unique individuals more than 7 years ago, but paying referral bonuses has led to a monoculture that is not distinguishable from any other "young white privileged momey-motivated male" tech company
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less interview in person and more video
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What makes you most happy at work?
Amazing office, amazing supplies, great colleagues and interesting projects to work on
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Geting things accomplished that I didn't think I could
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my colleagues and my team
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Shipping excellent products, teamwork, user research
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Designing something new and building it from the ground up.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
management needs to be better
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Promotions are harder to get and managers ranking employees are purely political.
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As a company we spend too much time talking politics, and not enough talking quality. Diversity hiring is diluting our skills on aggregate.
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fewer meetings, more focus on strategic, less on empire buiding
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Faster weeding out of poor performers
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What do you like best about your company?
Progressive management
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Engineering should take a more product focused approach.
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