Google Program Manager reviews

Very competitive - can be hard for career progression Engineering outside the US can be challenging

High variance in manager competence, including some managers whose only 'skill' appears to have been being lucky enough to join pre-IPO. From my experience - despite massive amounts of 'data', in the form of Googlegeist, employees reaching out to HR to express concerns, and almost universal team dissatisfaction, some really bad managers are simply not dealt with. Really bloated management structure outside of Eng, which means that many people are doing work that is below their level of skill, simply because there are so many layers of management above them. Think the company would actually benefit from a higher turnover rate. Bias against any sort of standardization, even though at the current size of the company, some standardization is needed.