2.0
21 Oct 2008
Former employee
Mountain View, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Support for work-life balance and a level-headed company culture
Cons
Politics, politics, politics - I was recruited into a Staff Engineering position, and within the engineering organization, things were very good. However, there is a completely irrelevant layer of "Architects" who are too out of touch to lead, and too egotistical to get the hell out of the way. It is EXTREMELY frustrating to be an engineer there - your good ideas are co-opted by architects, who then proceed to load it up with "process" and "architectese" - and completely ruin its chances of ever being implemented effectively.