Google Senior Manager, Technical Program Management reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

37% approve of CEO

94% positive business outlook

Senior Manager, Technical Program Management employees have rated Google with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Manager, Technical Program Management professionals have a good working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Manager, Technical Program Management professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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16 reviews
2.0
Feb 15, 2024
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Pros

I have only great things to say about Google until January 2023. It was until then a place most employees would trust the company, trust each other and, as a consequence, work really really hard to go great things. January 2023 was the end of it.

Cons

The big wave of layoffs in 2023, and the long succession of area specific "role terminations" (hard to track how many thousands were let go) quickly eroded the trust and the commitment employees had. 2023 was a year of fear and with that, the worse of survival-driven behaviors. People focusing on protecting themselves (or exposing others) to keep their jobs. The Google I was hired >15 years ago is no more.

3.0
Jan 15, 2024
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, some genuinely amazing people to work with

Cons

Sundar leadership is all knee jerk with no one feeling safe in their jobs. Grad promo system is terrible, people that are amazing can't even get close to promotion and leave for L+1 , L+2 roles all the time. For those that dare not to live in the PST time zone expect to be on calls till 7pm at least 4 nights a week

3.0
Jan 8, 2024
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Pros

Lots of perks: free food, entertainment, high-profile visitors, pretty much every resource you might need to succeed, recognised company brand that opens a lot of doors. Of course, with the size of Google now, at least you can change jobs and find new opportunities for your career without ever leaving the company.

Cons

Engineering development is more of a popularity contest. There is very little coherent product management, so the Engineering leads who can make the best product pitch move forward, until they get bored and lose headcount, then Google cancels the product. Software platforms aren't standardized, every team can re-invent the wheel. There is very little interoperability between products, so you can't even leverage what other people have built. Let's add to that rampant "brogrammer" culture, and horrible mistreatment of women. As a woman, you have to have a thick skin to get by, but if you're too brusque and forget to be warm and nurturing you'll be accused of "being a btich" or "not a team player" or "difficult to work with."

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