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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,458 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 48,458 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 12, 2016

      Frustrating for talented, ambitious people

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people (generally smart, friendly, and hard-working) Great environment Sane management Best practices Excellent comp and benefits Interesting work projects (although very team dependent) Good work-life balance

      Cons

      Lack of opportunity for senior talent (staff and above) to really make a dent in the organization. This, coupled with the very slow promo process (1.5 years / level) and Google's tendency to downlevel on hire can be very frustrating. To some extent, I felt like I had to simply wait for leadership to retire or play the political game to get much further in my career. Director-level and above can be super political in many PAs. Starting and launching new projects is very challenging at Google.

      4.0
      Feb 8, 2016

      ITRP Program

      Techstop connect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Getting to work for Google. Great culture outside of the ITRP program.

      Cons

      They will lie to recruit you, and promise training, ops roations, and learning opportunities that never happen.

      4.0
      Nov 11, 2015

      Google or self employment

      Site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great colleagues, competitive pay, industry leading benefits, nimble for a large company. The company is pursuing very lofty goals and really leading the industry on a number of fronts. After 8 years, Google is still a great place to work and I can't imagine working for any other company. The only thing that could pull me away would be to start my own venture.

      Cons

      Employees are almost exclusively from top tier universities and privileged backgrounds. Relative lack of intellectual and cultural diversity.

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