Having worked there I agree on some points. I thought the interview process was bullshit.
But, people generally work there for two reasons:
Pay and benefits top-knotch. I made two times there what I'm making now, post-Google, and I'm still making more 30% than my peers who work in-office for local companies do. (I work remote). Free food and other perks were also amazing.
Exposure to really large systems and scale. A lot of people really get off on building systems that scale as big as some of the Google stuff.
And honestly the internal engineering quality at Google is excellent. But conservative, and bespoke. They build their own everything, which they can do because they have buckets of cash. And what they build is mostly superior, and more consistently engineered. The internal code quality is generally meticulous.
But, people generally work there for two reasons:
Pay and benefits top-knotch. I made two times there what I'm making now, post-Google, and I'm still making more 30% than my peers who work in-office for local companies do. (I work remote). Free food and other perks were also amazing.
Exposure to really large systems and scale. A lot of people really get off on building systems that scale as big as some of the Google stuff.
And honestly the internal engineering quality at Google is excellent. But conservative, and bespoke. They build their own everything, which they can do because they have buckets of cash. And what they build is mostly superior, and more consistently engineered. The internal code quality is generally meticulous.