Pros
Pays good. People on the outside still think Google is a good company.
Cons
Poor business discipline. OKRs, goal setting, fact checking - exists in theory but not in practice. It's all slideware and moving numbers around to make it look like people are working on impactful projects while very little actually gets done. I watched a team struggle for the better part of a year to build a simple dashboard so that executives could know where key inventory was located and how much of it was available. They seem to struggle with processes that any non-tech supply chain or retail organization does extremely well. Folks in Cloud are gaming the hiring committee to bring in nepotism hires that seem incapable of bringing about measurable business impact. They are contributing to the lack of transparency and covering for each other's misconduct. Org structures are set up to fail. Managers communicate almost exclusively through TPMs to avoid accountability for their decisions, Bad actors create information bottlenecks where all status reports or leadership direction flow up and down only through them. I have observed individuals spread disinformation under the guise of executive direction. These same people misrepresent project information upward in a way that is convenient for their own careers, usually at the expensive of another employee. Constant infighting disrupts the pace of business.
