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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,436 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 48,436 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
      Apr 4, 2016

      Easy but boring

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay is good, you can get away with doing very little if that's your thing, the food is great.

      Cons

      People aren't that motivated, lots of politics, too many internal tools and languages that are nothing like the real world ie your experience there isn't that useful outside.

      5.0
      Feb 12, 2016

      Not gooood

      Technical program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Its just gooogle. Thats pretty much it to be honest. People think you are smart but you are not

      Cons

      Its just google thats all. Nothing special about it nothing at all i wish i had applied to a different company

      5.0
      Nov 23, 2015

      Excellent culture and mission, but some orgs are bureaucratic

      Account strategist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Wonderful mission from the founders and leaders, which truly trickle down to every aspect of the company. Employees feel connected and included in the amazing contributions made from the entire Google workforce. You can tell that the founders truly do have idealistic notions that permeate the culture and create an atmosphere that is difficult to find and authentically recreate.

      Cons

      Depending on the department, bureaucracy can quite a problem. There were obvious ways to make things better, but the top leaders were either uninvolved and focused on other 'sexier' projects, or were never given the honest/critical information. Inefficiencies weren't fixed because teams and departments were built around how things worked (not optimally). This led to management pushing and trying to exceed targets in a non-optimal system, rather than trying to fix the system itself. Some employees were incentivized to get promotions by garnering attention, rather than improving and fixing real problems to improve the product and user's experience.

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