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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,452 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 48,452 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
      2.0
      Apr 16, 2017

      Not what I thought it would be

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Google had a good salary, not great, but ok for the present market. It's a company that is flush with money so there are a lot of interesting things to do if you can get on the right teams.

      Cons

      A very long commute for me, they should allow people to work all over the bay area. A lot of politics, 10 percent of the people are actually bright and know what they are doing, the rest just latch onto their coattails. The people prides itself on have very very very smart people; I didn't see that many such people while I was there. If you are not on the right team the work can be rather boring.

      2.0
      Mar 21, 2017

      Increasingly disappointing

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazing perks. Improved work/life balance. Lots of internal mobility opportunities. Supports career/personal development with a multitude of internal classes and resources.

      Cons

      Increasing pool of ineffective and inexperienced middle managers. HR doesn't do anything perceivable to remove toxic employees (even ones who have a proven track record of questionable ethics/morality and embarrassingly low employee feedback scores). Lots of hierarchy. As a result, culture is quickly degrading.

      3.0
      Jul 21, 2016

      Great benefits, but job is unsatisfying

      Account strategist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Typical of tech firms: great perks that you not gonna get to use much anyway (gym, ping pong, snack...)

      Cons

      I can only speak for the team I'm with though (Customer Experience): the biggest cons is probably that they over hire while tasking people with very specific job so that at the end of day, you are not learning anything; and yet because of the great perks and depreciation of your skills (since you're not learning much compared to the similar young guys/gals at more nimble firms), you are reluctant to or cannot move anywhere. Think of the frog in the boiling pot tale. Politics is big big as well (more than the company wiling to acknowledge)

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