Pros
- Nice perks (free food and snacks, on-site gym, etc), basically like Google. - Pay was pretty decent. - Everyone wants to work for a Google company so finding folks that were interested in speaking with me was easy.
Cons
- Not much growth opportunities. - The corporate politics drain the life out of you. When you are consistently asking management areas that you can improve on and all you get is that you’re doing a great job only to get laid off without any real explanation is astonishing to me. When the reasoning was that it wasn’t a good “team fit” and wasn’t a performance issue, yet multiple people from the team are reaching out to you asking what happened, you know there is some shady politics going on in the background. - Contractors (TVC’s) are treated like second-class citizens. Not able to attend most company functions (which I can understand), but no PTO, and no ability to work from home. When full timers are never in the office and you are doing their work for them as a TVC but do not get the same ability to work from home, you have a major internal issue. - Favoritism from management: if you are on their good side, you get treated way better than if you’re not. The moment you do something small that they don’t like, you’re walking on eggshells from that point on.