Challenging work, but not always for the right reasons - Senior Site Reliability Engineer YouTube Employee Review

3.0
Sep 21, 2020
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Pros

Tremendous name brand recognition. Amazing internal technology. Very few companies can claim to touch as many lives as Google / YouTube does.

Cons

The YouTube / Google culture of semi-annual perf/promo is excruciatingly painful. The whole company seems to be reverting to "big company" status, caring more about numbers than about people. Watch out for your own work/life balance; help yourself before you extend yourself too much to help others; and don't take it personally.

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5.0
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Pros

Good videos and great environment to work in.

Cons

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4.0
Jul 12, 2026
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Flexible, creative, fulfilling, interesting, status

Cons

Tiring, algorithm updates, comparisons, uncertainty, volatility

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