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      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

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      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 48,424 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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      48K reviews
      3.0
      Nov 16, 2012

      Great if you're an engineer, not so great if you're in UX or not in Mountain View

      User experience designer
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      Pros

      Lots of freedom, cool projects and great colleagues. You have to find the right project though, where the team does appreciate UX as that's not always the case. Manage that and you'll have a blast. Also great benefits (good pension, medical insurance plus things like gym membership, and of course free food) and a very decent salary.

      Cons

      Google doesn't really seem to understand UX. Design decisions are often made by committee and based on technology or what the VP likes. The UX designer then gets the job of painting the pixels. There's also little understanding of the different roles within UX (visual designer, interaction designer, researcher). I find the work very simple and repetitive do miss the more interesting bits of UX design (conceptual, strategical work)

      5.0
      Sep 18, 2012

      Great company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Google offer an amazing work environment, with unbelievable perks. People around you are very smart Whatever you do in Google, you are probably working on (or supporting) an innovative product and having a quite large impact. Things move at a very fast pace. The speed is really one of a startup. Organized chaos is how I should describe Google. A chaos that magically works It is a relatively flat organization. While there is a well defined chain of command in every function, the individual are still empowered to work cross-functionally and take initiative.

      Cons

      It is getting a little bit too political in Google, which I guess is only natural for 40K company. PMs tend to take a bit too much credit for everything around, Engineering are very isolated (maybe by design) from operation/monetization aspects. Other functions are secondary to PM and Engineering in almost every aspect. Vision is increasingly a top-down thing with less and less grass root initiatives .......... working on your 20% these days mean your bonus will probably disappear because you need your manager sign-off, which likely has a different agenda, and his own 20%

      5.0
      Apr 22, 2012

      Awesome place to work; smart people, amazing technology, great projects.

      Software engineer iv
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Work with the best and brightest -- in over a year I've yet to meet anyone who isn't bright and highly competent. - Open culture and supportive management at all levels. I had some recent challenges in my family life and was told by my manager to take whatever time I needed, even if it was weeks. - Work on projects that seriously have the chance to change the world. - Great perks, including free breakfast and lunch daily, and the food is gourmet-quality. - Wonderful office environment (other than not having private offices). Boulder boasts a climbing wall, fitness center, showers (with towel service!), stage with instruments where employees have impromptu jam sessions, foosball, shuffleboard, pool, video games, relaxation room, massage room... it goes on and on.

      Cons

      - Like most development jobs, the company will take all the hours you want to give (the flip side is that I've never been asked to work more than 40, nor has it been implied I should). - Whatever tools you may have learned elsewhere, you won't use them at Google, because Google has it's own implementations of everything. - A follow-on to the last point, if you leave Google and try to join an employer who is looking for skills in specific tools, they won't be the tools you used at Google. That said, it's hard to think having "Google" on your resume won't more than compensate.

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