Google reviews

Growing fast, culture declining with growth, leadership struggling to create priorities and plans for marketing org, poor onboarding experience, very political, adding layers on layers of middle management with big egos, bureaucratic, hard to get things done, false promise of not being hierarchical, little work life balance due to competitive landscape internally, micro-managers that lead by fear even tho it’s against company culture, HR tends to give management benefit of the doubt no matter what the complaint or how many complaints.

Tends to be very political and many are not keen to help you unless it benefits them personally (i.e. performance reviews). Perks are nice, but I'd give them up for better basics - health, pension, etc. Work flexibility is a farce - at least in my office/team - and there are a lot of barriers to even getting an afternoon approved to work from home, much less multiple days. To me this illustrates a lack of trust in their employees. I don't know -- I've been generally unhappy since I've joined due to lowered work/life balance, lack of flexibility (so much for those extra vacation days), lack of colleagues' willingness to help with questions/projects, poorer basic benefits, etc.... but I've been compelled to stay since "it's Google" and to give it a fair chance.