Google reviews

Google Ireland felt like a continuum to a college: very junior people who enjoyed the expat bubble and parties – not much experience around. The company has a reputation for hiring overqualified people to mundane roles and that's what happened to me. There was no way to change the role and nobody in the management admitted the problem so my experience in the company was unhappy and quite short.

When I joined Google 7 years ago, I used to be amazed at people and culture every day. Over the time as the company grows to a large corporate with more hierarchy and corporate politics and most of founding management left, it's now just a normal company with corporate double talks and lack of transparency from management. People and culture are still better than most companies but not amazing any longer. Also company wide issue is detaching from work. Over many years here, I've never seen a college doing well without doing overtime (might be possible in a large operational team though). People may leave the office early but will dial back in to work at night. It was okay when I was single but not when I need family time with 2 small kids. Burn outs are quite common as the performance evaluation is based on comparison to your peers who are bright talents and work 24/7.