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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,486 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,486 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
      Jan 23, 2012

      Hard to find a better place to work.

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      Good infrastructure. Good opportunity to work on interesting problems. Good place to learn how to be a professional software engineer for beginning engineers.

      Cons

      Lack of innovation. The heyday of Google seems to be passed. Things are good but probably not as perfect as you might imagine it because the hey day has passed.

      5.0
      Jan 23, 2012

      Smart people and amazing perks

      Software engineer iii
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      Pros

      Working with smart people daily, amazing gourmet free food, fantastic career growth opportunities within Google. If you don't like the project you're working on, you can transfer to a different project, even to be a different "type" of engineer (e.g. frontend/backend/storage). I work with people who've worked on several projects at Google. Working on projects that you genuinely believe help make the world a better place, helping users connect with each other or give them greater access to information. I like the direction Larry has taken the company, feels more focused now than before. Very pro-women, pro-LGBT, pro-minority environment. I'm a female software engineer and have not seen a shred of the sexism or attitude towards women that I've experienced at other workplaces.

      Cons

      While not totally necessary, being on a higher profile project helps with recognition and career advancement. I work on one such project and have since I've been at Google, so I can't really say what it's like if you work on other projects. Having a good manager (as I do) is definitely important to being promoted and getting put on projects where you can earn recognition. Not all managers are as awesome as mine and their reports suffer for it in terms of career growth and interesting tasks to work on.

      3.0
      Jan 21, 2012

      good

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Relatively flexible in trying new ideas - Smart colleagues - Relatively easier to move (to another job/role) within Google

      Cons

      There are frequent organizational and/or structural changes within the organization.

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