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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,425 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,425 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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      48K reviews
      4.0
      Feb 9, 2015

      Can be Great, Can suck.

      Sre
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Google is still overall a good place to work, It is not the great place to work it once was but its not the worst by any means. As it grows it has lots of big company bs and politics that come with that. If you think Google once you get to Google everything you hate about working in cooperate america will be better you will be very disappointed.

      Cons

      It all depends on your immediate team and manager. Google is so big now that anything you say about them is not true of different area good or bad. Google wants everyone to live in Mountain View or New York with a total disregard for there ability to afford to live there.

      4.0
      Jan 5, 2015

      Outside of Mountainview, you feel out of the loop

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - great perks; they try hard to make it a nice place to work - very smart people - not a lot of politics for a big company - decent pay

      Cons

      - career management is very hard - too many smart people means your talent is often wasted on trivial stuff - outside of main campus options for advancement are even more limited

      2.0
      Jan 5, 2015

      Your experience depends on your manager

      Children's center teacher
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      benefits, food, perks, discounts. Google has done a great job of marketing themselves as a hip place for smart young things to work. The concerts, parties, and general go go go of the company may appeal to young 20 somethings who have no strings attached and like to spend 75 hours per week at work in a flexible schedule of working out, working, eating, getting massages and hardly ever going outside of the Google bubble. Google culture has its own language so you feel like part of a group. People "get you" here because they speak Google-esque just like you. Again, great marketing and appealing to the need for people to belong to a group.

      Cons

      work- life balance. career advancement, salary raises, bonuses paid out in vested stock that takes 4 years to actually pay out. golden handcuffs I realized I made a mistake of accepting the job on day 1. I lasted just over 2 years. The stock, benefits and golden stock handcuffs were a large part of why I stayed. Things are done under the illusion of each employee having a voice, and everyone being equitable in the growth of the company and in deciding the direction of the company. This is completely untrue. Our entire department tiptoed around the manager, gave her terrible Googlegeist feedback, and yet, as if by magic her salary grew and grew whist we were told that we had "reached the top of our pay scale tier" My salary raise was 5 cents per hour in the year that I left. My performance review did not warrant this kind of slap in the face, but my department simply didn't have the funds to pay me more.

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