Google reviews

Leadership is short-sighted, tone-deaf, and useless. All of the bizarre headlines published about Google to the outside world are just as baffling to the majority of employees inside the company. Benefits and perks have been dramatically slashed, thousands of employees are fired without notice, culture-building events such as hackathons, knowledge-sharing social events, family events and holiday parties are all pretty much gone. Travel is mostly non-existent, except for executives and product VPs. The company no longer appears to have any vision about being competitive in the future, and has gone all-in on a cost-cutting strategy to survive. C-level executives regularly respond in corporate double-speak about how they're "taking responsibility", while dodging questions that are critical of them or their decisions during TGIF (the company wide all-hands) and Town-Hall meetings. They continue to collect record-setting equity payouts, ignore critical feedback about company decisions and strategy, and have turned a blind eye to plummeting moral which is at an all-time 24yr low. Some grass-roots efforts inside the company have even being to sprout in an effort to stop the bleeding and affect some sort of positive change, but these efforts are mostly hampered by the lack of transparency and the willingness of leadership to terminate employees without notice and for sketchy or ambiguous cause. Confidence in leadership (all the way up to Sundar) is in an abysmal state, and there is no clear idea about how to make the company successful in the future. The luster of the roles it offers is quickly dissolving, and unless something incredibly dramatic happens at the leadership level, I wouldn't not expect Google to be an innovation leader in anything, within the next couple of years.