The working life inside Google
You can read about the good parts anywhere, so I"ll try to offer a counterpoint based on having worked at other software companies. A common problem is that it"s easy to become spoiled by all the perks. Several offices have developed distinct cultures of entitlement, and people whine about the quality of the fudge on the free brownies. It"s embarrassing to be around people who"ve become like spoiled children.An engineering-specific problem there is that there"s a lot of support for operations ò€” that is, lots of people whose job it is to keep the systems running. Engineers don"t habitually carry pagers and are on-call relatively infrequently. The plus side is that they can focus on development, get adequate sleep, and be more productive. The downside is that they can easily lose touch with what"s really going on in the data centers and sometimes even their customers. It"s a trade-off. Google is at least aware of it and uses incentive programs to entice engineers to spend time in ops roles. Last, the company is big into ò€˜generating luck," which means trying a whole bunch of stuff in the hopes that a few efforts will pay off."
Well, we don`t need much more counterpoints cause we already have known the real situation of the Google enployees from words above. As i said at the first part, two sides in a same stuff. A lot of people always wanted to work with Google while most of its employees are constantly in the battle for having their own startup companies. You see, anyway, it"s not always about working with a big and famous company, it"s about doing what you really like and what"s truly rewarding.