Company profile

Google

Technology USA

toxicity score

Toxicity level 31.6 / 100

stories

4.5☕

avg rating

issue types

Alphabet subsidiary and dominant search and advertising technology company. Cut thousands of roles across engineering, sales, and operations as part of AI-driven restructuring.

Issues reported

⚖️ Discrimination 🔥 Gaslighting 🎯 Retaliation ☠️ Toxic Leadership ✕ Clear

Stories

🔥 Gaslighting 🎯 Retaliation ☠️ Toxic Leadership

Glowing review. "Role being sunset." Same role posted three weeks later.

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My end-of-year review said I was doing "exceptional work" and that I was being considered for promotion. Six weeks later I was in a layoff round. When I asked HR how to square th…

Paraphrased from Reddit r/cscareerquestions / r/layoffs — corroborated pattern

Google · Data Engineer

0 replies 25 Jan 2023

⚖️ Discrimination 🎯 Retaliation

The DEI team was cut first. All of us. In one round.

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I led diversity and inclusion programmes for one of Google's product divisions. Mentorship pipelines, sponsorship initiatives, HBCUs partnerships. Things that were genuinely worki…

Paraphrased from Axios / The Guardian (2023) — documented DEI team cuts

Google · Diversity & Inclusion Programme Manager

0 replies 22 Jan 2023