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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

      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 48,390 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
      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Google is probably the best big company to work for.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The food, the people, the development infrastructure, the energetic atmosphere, and the large scale problems that do not exist anywhere else.

      Cons

      Google is starting to feel like a big company. The number of times org charts appear in meetings is constantly increasing. There is a growing necessity to deal with politics in order to promote projects and get recognition. It is getting harder to innovate in the core parts of the business.

      5.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      kicks ass

      Tech lead/manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      great pay, great flexibility. Nobody pampers engineers like Google. Focus is on small teams, self-starting and self-motivating engineers. Much less power politics than I've found elsewhere.

      Cons

      no offices. Excessive focus on engineering means that non-engineering disciplines (finance, HR, legal, marketing) are under-valued. A lot more boring ads work than you would think.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great place to work, but challenging leadership problems at scale.

      Engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Google, even through a period of explosive growth, continues to be a great innovation hub. The engineering culture has managed to attract some of the brightest minds in computer science, with access to vast resources and people with experience and expertise across a broad range of functions. Working at Google is a fantastic way to meet and learn from some of these folks, and to gain exposure to some of the largest distributed computing systems in the world. And of course, the benefits are best-in-class, included the lauded Google chefs and various on-site amenities. If you can find a way to build some upside, whether that's around compensation, equity, or career advancement, Google is a fantastic place to work.

      Cons

      As the company grows, more and more groups compete for the attention of senior management, which has continued to keep a tight grasp on the operations of the company. It becomes very difficult to operate strategically, as the opportunities for high-level feedback are few and far between. And on those occasions that you do have the opportunity to solicit feedback, it's generally very disruptive and can often times be untimely or driven by subjective factors. To management's credit, this "sparse micromanagement" is an acknowledged problem, and more and more senior managers at the director level are taking ownership of large strategic initiatives. As the company starts to transform its leadership culture, there will be interesting changes in the way products are developed, from charter through launch.

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