A lot of people want to work at Google. Brilliant people, amazing perks, and the chance to impact tens of millions of people are among the draws.
There's even a movie about what it's like to intern there.
But working at Google isn't all free food and bike rides around campus.
We checked out a Quora thread where people claiming to be current and former employees dish on the down sides of working there. Take them with a grain of salt, but we've heard many of these same things from our own sources.
Everyone is overqualified.
"The worst part of working at Google, for many people, is that they're overqualified for their job," said one commenter. "Google has a very high hiring bar due to the strength of the brand name, the pay & perks, and the very positive work culture."
Working at Google easily takes over your life.
"The worst part about working at Google is how, when you weren't looking, it takes over the majority of your time and energy," said a former sales employee. "If you are not intentional about how you approach your time, it can quickly become your life."
The company only cares about measurable improvements.
"Any improvement not based on a hard metric was flatly not a respected use of time," said a former Google software engineer. "Usability? Number of bugs? Nobody cared. If you couldn't measure it, nobody was interested in it."
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