Pros
Note that these are team specific (Android), experience may vary across teams/depts - very flexible hours - relatively few meetings to waste development time - you get to see commercial devices before they actually release - great pay for the kind of work you do, its a bargain actually. - awesome benefits, has a nurse-practitioner on site for any illnesses, injuries
Kontras
- low sense of accomplishment - software is mostly involved in testing/bug fixing, if lucky you may get to work on big projects but you have to chase down managers for more important work - repetitive work, one chip after another is mostly the same stuff on different hardware - poor coding practices in certain teams, bad function names and mispellings get propagated because nobody ever steps up to fix them. - 3 years average promotion time for engineers, which seem to be longer than alot of other companies, this adds to the lack of accomplishment - line management, your line manager has no clue what you did in the past quarter nor do they care. They evaluate you based on an online form filled out by your colleagues and given the impersonal nature of the evaluation (no personal interaction), people get bored of bubbling things in and writing canned answers they just dont try to write anything amazing about you. - they give you lots of bonuses and stock options to keep you here, but rarely actually bump your salary