Job description is misleading and you may suddenly have an extraordinary amount of responsibility added without additional compensation. There has been a marked decrease in the quality of middle management and career development has been the last priority. There seems to be an overall lack of strategy in many areas; decision making is often not quick and clear. Google has also been making many layoffs due to current recession.

This company likes to think of itself as do no evil or at least says so --- why then are they doing layoffs in small numbers at a time to look like there are no layoffs?

Looks like the company is going to give the people on layoff list a chance to look for other jobs internally - feeling a little relieved - I have had great perf review and ws just stuck in the bad radio area ..

Ok first there were layoffs in Recruiting -- quite understandable - we had built up an army of people who helped with recruiting -- hey if you are going to bring back candidates 13 times -- need people to handle all the logistics -- but last week it was new layoffs in Sales and mainly marketing - no sooner were they announced though, now there are rumors about layoffs in design and creative ---- is it going to stop? Which dept is next? My guess only the engineers are save at Google.