Great Company, very very slow at making decisions - Product Specialist YouTube Employee Review

4.0
3 Mar 2020
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Pros

Incredible co-workers, everyone is extremely intelligent, smart and motivated. Great work-life balance and focus on growth.

Cons

- Compensation - Micromanaging executives. CPO, CTO and CEO all like to review every single word that goes out the door. This results in a minimum of 10 reviews before a product launch. It slows down everyone and creates a huge bottleneck. No one is allowed to innovate. The focus is slowly on small step changes. Disappointing that we don't have the courage to be industry leaders.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

- The impact you can have at YouTube Scale is bonkers - Lots of smart people to learn from

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