Pros
Overall, decent fun people within the company. Corporate communicates well with employees. Increasingly better benefits. Not the best, but better than some places. 401k is pretty generous given current corporate climate for helping fund employees retirements. Strange office park, like a working farm merged with a monastery. It grows on you, trust me. Parking can be a problem but it is free. Depending upon your department, lots of company outings and functions. Aggressively innovative, progressive about growing the company. This justifies some of the explosive hiring numbers.
Cons
Not really known for paying all that well. Still a pretty dated company in terms of a dress code and structure. Vast amounts of middle and senior management. Seems very political, often times you see groups of people hiring in from the same companies. These cons relate only to my work environment in IT. You won't see many ex-Googlers here. You can work with a team that has their act together, but talented software engineers end up being moved around between projects. Eventually, the fickle finger of fate will place you with a project lead that is far from being the best. Go back to the reviews from 2012 to current. The endemic issues from the 2012-2014 period that caused a lot of people to leave have subsided, they were there when I left in 2018. Awful tech debt you get to work around means you won't get to do your very best here. Often times, barely working. Complete it in the sprint, ship it and hope it stays together. If someone makes upstream changes to APIs or data objects, brace for impact. Very poor communication, very chaotic development cycles. Used to perusing GitHub or using similar tools for code examples, research or discussion? Forget that, InfoSec considers many of those sites hostile, There is no appeal to that process. My manager suggested do that kind of research from home on my own time.
