Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,490 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,490 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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4.0
Feb 21, 2012
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Pros

-Great Benefits- food, gym, time off, good hours -Lots of opportunities for interns to sit in on meetings, get contact with higher-ups -Strong intern program in business and engineering -Can be proud to work at Google, your friends and family will recognize your achievement and looks great on a resume -Flexibility to work in different departments after a year or two with the company

Cons

-Actual day to day work not as exciting as it seems (lots of Excel, etc) -Lots of gossip inside and outside the company that account managers are just "glorified telemarketers" -Does not pay as well as finance internships though Google would like to compete with these sorts of internship programs at elite schools and campuses -Does not seem like a place you stick around too long; a young environment with lots of movement and attrition. -Recruiting process slow, flawed, and disorganized

5.0
Feb 17, 2012
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Pros

Google has a fantastic engineering culture and an incredible practice of software development. Everyone in the company has something valuable to offer, and there's a lot to learn from the people and the organization.

Cons

Google is getting to be a quite large company. It's nearly impossible to know about everything that's going on in every organization. Furthermore, the love from the public has waned in recent years which can be a bit of a bummer.

5.0
Feb 10, 2012
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Pros

For lack of a better way to say it, Google is just a fun place to work. There are a lot of different personalities and the attitude of the whole place is very relaxed. The best thing, however, is that this doesn't detract from the drive that individual employees and the company's leadership have to create great products and really make life better for millions (or billions) of people. It's refreshing to go to work every day with people who are very smart but still pretty down-to-earth. Another key benefit is the fact that the company is very open in terms of sharing information with its employees. Top-secret projects are regularly shared company-wide and help employees feel that they're really engaged with the company's mission and accomplishments. Finally, for product managers specifically, the scope of the job at Google is much broader than what you might get with a similar level of experience at other large tech companies, which makes you feel like you're making much more of an impact.

Cons

Despite Google's efforts to maintain a startup-like atmosphere, it's still true that big-company hurdles -- like legal issues, regulatory concerns, and just standard VP approval processes for big decisions -- can slow down the process of doing cool things. And although the average talent level is quite high, the discipline and effectiveness of individual engineers can still vary somewhat significantly, so sometimes you'll have to deal with people who just don't work as quickly or independently as you'd like. Finally, in an engineering-centric company like Google, a PM can occasionally feel a little like the "e-mailer in chief," a person who nags other people a lot but doesn't get to do "real" work and who doesn't get the same respect as an engineer.

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