Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

Overcrowded poorly maintained campus (Mountain View, CA). Limited parking space. Noisy cramped open-space office reduces productivity. All that keeps getting worse as more and more employees are packed into the same buildings. I am surprised perks show as "pros" in reviews; personally I would pay out of pocket for food without long lines or quiet office.

No one is perfect. No company is perfect. There are great people and there are jerks. There are great managers and a bunch of not-so-great ones. If you go in thinking this is some utopia that doesn't have politics and bureaucracy, you'll get disillusioned really fast. And it's a company full of overachievers, so it's hard to maintain work-life balance if you want to keep up with your peers - unless you explicitly force yourself to only work a certain amount.