Google Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering reviews

The rate of change can upset people; nothing is constant. If you think you are making progress on your project, it's time to receive an email about deprecating an old database API or requiring every product to integrate the latest greatest security technology. Because the company has shown it can completely change direction very quickly, many people desire such changes, even when they may not be needed. Hiring relies on strongly on non-biased interviewing (the worst predictor of future performance). A desire to keep things 'fair' means people hoping to work in Google can often get a poor experience. I don't like referring people to work here - even though I know they'll kick ass at the job, my opinion is deemed too subjective to be useful.

Working on outside fun projects outside Google can be difficult due to the fact that the company's research interests are all over the map, causing things you do in your own time to potentially be subject to the company's copyright even if you never relied upon resources from work to accomplish them.