Accelerated Growth Consultant - Accelerated Growth Consultant Google Employee Review

1.0
22 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful office, great food and snacks, equity, healthcare, gym, pool, often flexible, good products

Cons

Our supervisor consistently engages in bullying behavior toward me and my colleagues on a daily basis. These instances primarily occur in private settings, away from the observation of others. The effects of this behavior have been detrimental to several team members, with some opting to take extended leaves due to the resulting exhaustion and negative impact on their mental well-being and job performance. The supervisor's actions convey a disregard for the feelings of others, often dismissing legitimate concerns and even insinuating that individuals are irrational or unstable. Additionally, he exhibits favoritism, unfairly criticizing certain individuals for minor issues while deliberately overlooking similar behavior in others. His conduct extends to performance evaluations, where he unjustly assigns poor ratings and misrepresents the feedback of team members. The supervisor targets individuals he holds personal grudges against, burdening them with unmanageable workloads and creating situations designed for failure, only to shift blame onto the affected individuals. His relationship with the Director appears to be built on favoritism and ingratiating behavior rather than merit. Proving these actions is challenging due to their clandestine nature and the supervisor's adeptness at manipulating information. Numerous employees have either resigned or attempted to leave the team due to his behavior. Potential new recruits should exercise caution, as they may either become favored by the supervisor or endure daily suffering in silence. For HR personnel, intervention is imperative to prevent further attrition. To those experiencing similar mistreatment, I encourage you to bravely report such behavior to HR. Google removes bad reviews like this one to protect themselves on the outside but in the inside its unfortunately like this. Its hard to get promoted or move in the org as you would have to be close friends with the managers or the right people.

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Pros

1) Food, food, food. 15+ cafes on main campus (MTV) alone. Mini-kitchens, snacks, drinks, free breakfast/lunch/dinner, all day, errr'day. 2) Benefits/perks. Free 24:7 gym access (on MTV campus). Free (self service) laundry (washer/dryer) available. Bowling alley. Volley ball pit. Custom-built and exclusive employee use only outdoor sport park (MTV). Free health/fitness assessments. Dog-friendly. Etc. etc. etc. 3) Compensation. In ~2010 or 2011, Google updated its compensation packages so that they were more competitive. 4) For the size of the organization (30K+), it has remained relatively innovative, nimble, and fast-paced and open with communication but, that is definitely changing (for the worse). 5) With so many departments, focus areas, and products, *in theory*, you should have plenty of opportunity to grow your career (horizontally or vertically). In practice, not true. 6) You get to work with some of the brightest, most innovative and hard-working/diligent minds in the industry. There's a "con" to that, too (see below).

Cons

1) Work/life balance. What balance? All those perks and benefits are an illusion. They keep you at work and they help you to be more productive. I've never met anybody at Google who actually time off on weekends or on vacations. You may not hear management say, "You have to work on weekends/vacations" but, they set the culture by doing so - and it inevitably trickles down. I don't know if Google inadvertently hires the work-a-holics or if they create work-a-holics in us. Regardless, I have seen way too many of the following: marriages fall apart, colleagues choosing work and projects over family, colleagues getting physically sick and ill because of stress, colleagues crying while at work because of the stress, colleagues shooting out emails at midnight, 1am, 2am, 3am. It is absolutely ridiculous and something needs to change. 2) Poor management. I think the issue is that, a majority of people love Google because they get to work on interesting technical problems - and these are the people that see little value in learning how to develop emotional intelligence. Perhaps they enjoy technical problems because people are too "difficult." People are promoted into management positions - not because they actually know how to lead/manage, but because they happen to be smart or because there is no other path to grow into. So there is a layer of intelligent individuals who are horrible managers and leaders. Yet, there is no value system to actually do anything about that because "emotional intelligence" or "adaptive leadership" are not taken seriously. 3) Jerks. Sure, there are a lot of brilliant people - but, sadly, there are also a lot of jerks (and, many times, they are one and the same). Years ago, that wasn't the case. I don't know if the pool of candidates is getting smaller, or maybe all the folks with great personalities cashed out and left, or maybe people are getting burned out and it's wearing on their personality and patience. I've heard stories of managers straight-up cussing out their employees and intimidating/scaring their employees into compliance. 4) It's a giant company now and, inevitably, it has become slower moving and is now layered with process and bureaucracy. So many political battles, empire building, territory grabbing. Google says, "Don't be evil." But, that practice doesn't seem to be put into place when it comes to internal practices. :(

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