Google is just another big software company with solid pay and benefits. There is nothing quirky, unique or special about it otherwise. My Googler buddies descr

Google is just another big software company with solid pay and benefits. There is nothing quirky, unique or special about it otherwise. My Googler buddies describe their work as pedestrian and while Engineers still retain more power than the average company, this is counterbalanced by upper management incompetence which destroys/misaligns most good initiatives leading to a lot of work being done with limited results.