Google reviews

Lots of great people are leaving and being replaced by people that are very junior, or with senior people with values that didn't use to be common at Google. Senior management is often more interested in just creating an appearance of a happy and healthy company, rather than actually solving some hard problems. A lot of technical debt that is increasingly hard to address due to the scale of the company. In spite of increasingly making more and more money, the management invests less and less back into the company and its employees.

Despite the perks and the prestigious logo, work/life balance is poor. Google is filled to the brim with over-achievers always intent on promo or their next role. This, along with an INSATIABLE demand for growth, leads to unhealthy work/life balance. My teammates and I regularly burnout and get sick from exhaustion. Management knows about this and still lacks compassion. Instead of truly "seeing you," they say something like "working hard doesn't mean you are working smart." This sentiment hurts, especially when mgmt is constantly throwing you last-minute AIs and adding new OKRs/KPIs.