Google reviews

1/ they suck at managing the skills pool during reorgs. They shuffle you around in ways that sometimes makes no sense at all. I've had 6 reorgs in 6 years (all justified from a business standpoint). I was just unlucky, always in the team that just got reorged, but it really slowed down your career. 2/ compensation is very uneven across the globe. US and Switzerland get employees get very well paid compared to, for example, UK employees. I've had greater changes of lifestyle and comp from changing country than I did from being promoted. A bit odd. 3/ in the sales org, there is a strong tendency to promote good presenters over doers. 4/ work life balance is...well it depends. i've had jobs where I was bored out of my mind and jobs when I worked until 10pm and on Sundays. It really depends. Overall good but very uneven.

I hear from people around the company that Google proper is great and that Cloud is not representative of the true Google work experience. Either way, Cloud is pretty terrible. Extremely hierarchical, micromanagement culture that treats people with a lot of disrespect. No trust in people. Leadership by fear. Leadership team is half competent other half incompetent. Not unusual for people to be thrown under the bus by managers.