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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,390 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 48,390 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
      5.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      A Great Company Rarely Seen

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company is clearly at the leading edge of the new technologies that will define the high tech industry for the forseeable future.

      Cons

      Its a geeks heaven, and although all employees are treated well, the engineers are clearly the favored class. I think this makes sense from a strategic perspective (I am not an engineer) but employees in sales, legal, finance etc. often feel slighted because of this. Engineers build the products that drive the success of the company, other functions are essentially support functions. This may not be the case at other companies, such as traditional enterprise software companies, where sales is more important, but that is the way it is at Google.

      5.0
      Jun 17, 2008

      Lots of interesting problems and chances to grow if you work at it.

      Site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You get to work on some of the biggest clusters in the world on some very hard and interesting problems. The people are generally above average and you always have to work to make sure you're doing better. For the most part its a very strong meritocracy.

      Cons

      You might not get assigned to the groups doing the really cool things. It must be very frustrating to want to do e.g. large scale graph algorithms (think maps) and be stuck doing hr programming or javascript. Though after 18 months you can move to any team you want if they need engineers (and you're performing). The infrastructure is getting complex enough that there is a huge ramp up time. While that means that it takes a while to launch a project for the first time, if you know what you're doing you can launch a very scalable project quickly.

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