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      How is the work/life balance at Google?

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      Great perks and pay, but slow-moving environment

      Software engineer
      Current employee
      Mountain View, CA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The company is great, good perks good pay good work life balance

      Cons

      slow moving compared to startups

      Great Company to work for

      Sales manager
      Current employee
      Omaha, NE
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits, Good work life balance and pay

      Cons

      N/A now at the time

      Great perks and lots of competition

      Software engineer
      Current employee
      New York, NY
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The salary, stock and in office perks such as food and nice facilities are great.

      Cons

      Due to recent changes in org structure, i have seen many teammates leave either involuntarily or just out of being tired. Work life balance is hard as many new grads will work late nights and weekends, this causes a very competitive culture where performance is measures by team's averages or hidden feedback from teammate who are going for promo or just plainly very focused on looking great for the manager rather than doing a good and fair job.

      Great place to work though not perfect

      Senior interaction designer
      Former employee
      Mountain View, CA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great pay and benefits. There's overall a culture of respect across the company.

      Cons

      Culture can vary a lot across orgs and teams— some teams will have a healthy work-life balance culture and some will have very long hours, sprints all the time, etc. Also politics get heavily in the way of getting work done so the strategy changes frequently and overall projects tend to move very slowly.

      Good Company Under Huge Change

      Engineering manager
      Current employee
      Los Angeles, CA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Decent work life balance, high prestige, good benefits , good office events, enormous scale , occasional opportunity to influence impact, people are generally nice and none toxic.

      Cons

      High pressure to do more with less, too much red tape, none standard tooling, good managers are hard to find, you have to build your own support network, unfortunate culture of yesterday was better than today.

      Great company but has become bureaucratic and slow

      Data scientist
      Current employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great pay, benefits, decent work life balance, great community

      Cons

      Slow career progression, pointless cost cutting, slow / bureaucratic execution, non-transparent performance process

      Great work life balance

      Software engineer
      Current employee
      Zürich
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great pay compared to the local market, nice work life balance and coworkers

      Cons

      Big tech bureaucracy, so work can be boring

      Typical Experience

      Software engineer
      Current employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good perks, benefits and work life balance.

      Cons

      Way too much overhead for decision making and crazy doc writing culture.

      Google

      Partnership manager
      Former employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great culture, amazing benefits, work life balance

      Cons

      unfortunately capped by progression ceilings (varies by departments)

      Great culture

      Anonymous employee
      Current employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great team culture, lots of work life balance

      Cons

      Lack of structure for jobscope