Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,424 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,424 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Google employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Nov 1, 2016

Fun place to work

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Pros

Great benefits Flexible schedule Smart people who can teach you a lot Great resources and training material to help you grow in your career

Cons

Internal transfer process is useless. After all the effort to hire you, a more seamless internal transfer process to other roles would be awesome! It is easier to transfer to other roles on your ladder, but not to other orgs. When transferring to other orgs, an internal person goes through the same process as an external candidate.

5.0
Jul 3, 2016

Best job experience of my 20+ year career

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Pros

The perks and benefits are everything you've heard before, and more. I'm surprised daily. I've been in and around the Valley for 20+ years at some of the biggest companies in tech. Nothing comes close to my experience here at Google. Every new person I meet is the smartest person I've ever met. The work is compelling, the environment is a conduit for creativity, the benefits are amazing. I've seen lots of comments here about the fact that it's hard to navigate hierarchies and org boundaries to get things done. I suspect most of these reviewers are quite early on in their career and have never had to deal with this in other more "traditional" companies. It's waaaaaaayyy worse outside of the 4 walls of Google, believe me. Simply put, Google is an amazing place to work.

Cons

Look, it's no longer the scrappy start up it was 10 years ago. With growth comes maturity. Some of it is good, some of it leaves little to be desired. But none of it is unique to Google. All in all, dealing with bureaucracy sitting in one of our 20+ free cafeterias or on a plane headed to Europe for a team building event makes it bearable and, dare I say, even fun.

3.0
Jun 23, 2016

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Pros

Good opportunity for first job after graduated.

Cons

The position does not match my education background.

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