Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

Tremendous growing pains. Not very organized in terms of career development. I've worked for multiple managers that were technical geniuses but devoid of interest in mentoring and personal development. I've gotten tired of commuting from San Francisco after many years. They also hired many managers from outside the company rather than promoting from within. Additionally the size is making the company less efficient as time goes by.

Company is getting more bureaucratic. While many engineers are super solid, some managers are only good at suck-up or manage-up, they indulge at meetings to show their influence but unable to really be a model and lead by examples. Some senior engineers are leaving as the freedom to work on innovative project is diminishing. more and more new graduate or junior engineers are hired. While politics are still relative small compare to similar size company, they are certainly growing. managers "promote" lots of tech lead to manage projects regardless whether they are really technically strong. peer-review process is partially broken as manager's feedback is the one that really matters. project transfer process is heavy and become very dis-encouraging.