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Everything here depends on your direct manager. You will either get a genuine leader who invests in your growth and success or a someone who pretends but is only there to make themselves look good and will actively make your life hell to push you out. Holier than thou attitudes of middle managers make it very a very toxic and two-faced environment. If you don't follow blindly you will be pushed out of the company under the facade of "support". Expectations seem to be different for people in the same role depending on if a manager likes you or not. Untrustworthy people in influential positions who play the politics game instead of actually serving customers. HR dont take reports of bullying and discrimination seriously enough. They don't actually care about customers and doing things the right way, its a fake customer first mindset while you're forced to shove products down businesses throats even though it could ruin their business. Overall - be very cautious of the people around you, because behind the smiles, fake "we're a team and support each other" talk and "Googliness", there are some who want you to fail.

Leaders who don’t lead. Directors who don’t give directives. VPs who don’t even understand the nature of their job function. Mid level managers who understand the work better than anyone, but get trounced on by internal, political BS. Frequent layoffs. Frequent re-orgs. General instability and a lack of job security and psychological safety. You do a lot of tap facing to “safeguard” yourself, but you’re never quite sure how to meet the mark because there’s an ever-moving goal post. If you are a serious government relations or public policy professional… do NOT work here. There are too many silos and too much internal gatekeeping and clout-chasing. Not enough execution for the sake of necessity and job function. You will spend months circling in endless internal meetings and may ultimately accomplish nothing. Your literal political influence matters less than your in-house, company influence in this ridiculous policy shop. It’s also over organized with tons of redundancy and overlap, so get ready to butt heads with folks all the time in pursuit of your job.