Vantaggi
Account Executives work as client leads within the sales teams that make up the global business org. Within this role and organization, you receive a great deal of respect and prestige from your clients, as they look to you for strong business guidance. The pay is very competitive, and if you have a supportive manager, the potential to gain merit raises annually is very high (as are the stock refreshes). The company provides many internal trainings for those interested in personal development, and the opportunity to travel to another office in another city/country is readily available on a quarterly basis. Most importantly, it's some of the best people you will ever work with. Aside from the odd, few people who inexplicably make it through hiring, the people who work within the sales org at Google are strong team players, optimistic, creative, strategic, hard-working, quirky and down-to-earth individuals.
Svantaggi
The global business org at Google struggles with its flat organizational structure; it can be difficult to get promoted or to have your work acknowledged in a very competitive, self-promoting culture. Don't believe everything you read in the press about how fantastic Google work culture is. Although the HR department has made multiple attempts to improve the promotion structure at Google, it can be near impossible to navigate all of the appropriate politics to gain a promotion. Furthermore, a promotion in the sales org at Google does not necessarily mean an increase in responsibility or a title change. Employees usually work in roles 1-2 levels above them in order to first demonstrate that they are worthy of promotion. In this same vein, the opportunities for growth are VERY few within this org, and you often find people moving from industry to industry (within the sales org) to keep their day-to-day interesting. There is a huge bottleneck for middle management to make their way into leadership positions. Most importantly, the leadership within the sales org is severely lacking. Leadership makes decisions well removed from the sales organization itself (and its employees) and often work like politicians to further their own careers, rather than improve the larger organization itself.