Google reviews

Toxic work environment in some BUs. The leadership here are completely detached from their teams. I wouldn't call them leaders but bosses with superiority complexes. If you think FTEs are treated badly here, what about the TVCs? They do a lot of the heavy lifting and get zero recognition from uppers. TVCs know 98% of the processes yet are treated as disposable at the end of their term, leaving FTE managers to scramble to find replacements to overlap for information transferring. They are also required to document everything before they leave in hopes the new TVC will know how to handle processes, the leads never learn how to do things themselves. The dependency is not sustainable, especially not in operation type roles. It's a never ending cycle. I felt really bad for the TVCs on my team!

- Your core job is mundane as they tend to hire over qualified people - They tend to promote unqualified middle managers. I have had met teams where the subordinates are much more knowledgeable and capable than the managers. This, many times made them lose great people. - What you put hard work on might not materialize to fruition in the future as change is constant. Projects get scrapped all the time. In the end, you feel like you don't achieve much at all. - Feels like a cult. When you work at Google, you live and breathe Google. - Distracting work environment with so many going-ons, travels, open office, etc; hard to do work if you are not focused. - While they promote work life balance, the truth is, this is hard to have since there are so many projects, changes, travels and filtering of information to have a decent work life balance - Ridiculous amounts of unnecessary meetings