Google Design Manager reviews

- working, the actual work part, at google, is paralyzed and tedious. - PMs. You could be a world-recognized expert in cryptography but because a first year PM has an opinion about cryptography that he read on Techcrunch, you are subjected to it. - Arrogance. Everywhere. Designers vs. engineers. PMs vs. designers. Everyone within their team is tight, but teams fight because the company historically only needed engineers. So engineers think that they can be designers and PMs, and the ladders truly support it. So everyone is constantly vying for relevance. - there is no leadership at this company. the founders treat TGIF like it's open mic at the local cafe's comedy night. if they even show up. - people like james damore are given jobs here. there are a lot of them. scared, incel warcraft men. - no barriers to movement mean nobody gives a crap about their projects. there are few experts, just project tourists looking for promo

Even the best big companies have some amount of politics and some amount of duplicate or discarded work. Plus, when you've got a lot of people working on something, the work is sharded into smaller and more specialized bits, and some of those are naturally less interesting than others.