Google Technical Program Manager II reviews

- Very very manager driven environment - Lack of understanding of direction and strategy. Try and fail fast mentality leads to many issues as the company's scale can no longer support such an attitude - Entreprenuerial to an extent that there is very little support as you are new to the firm. This organization is a monster of its own to navigate - unlike any in the industry. Without the nature of guidance that initial googlers could access because of smaller scale, many nooglers struggle - Touts as being OKR driven but at a closer look you can see that there is intense data manipulation and storyline projection to show that they met OKRs. OKRs are often shifted - sometimes at the end of the review cycle - contrary to public image, they prefer only aggressive type As and it is sometimes upsetting to see the level of politics that exists - There is no diversity w.r.t personality types. If you are in with the cool crowd - you are in. Else you will struggle.

lots of red tape, things move slowly