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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,380 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      82% 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 48,380 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
      2.0
      May 1, 2009

      The perks are great, but it stops there.

      Ad sense sales manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      They have amazing benefits and perks. The culture in some offices is very positive and fun. They allow honor system style time off for sickness as long as it is not abused. They have a large pool of talent and they look great on a resume.

      Cons

      The top levels of management are arrogant and inattentive. They seem to very self interested and only spout pre rehearsed, scripted answers to important questions. Promotions and reviews are based on your managers mood. The management is so flat that some managers have legions of googlers rolling up into them. This makes it very hard to stand out. The perks are there to put stars in your eyes so you won't see that there is very little opportunity for career advancement of nay note.

      4.0
      May 1, 2009

      A good place to work if you want to learn alot and lead a normal life.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits, working at a company everyone respects and says "wow" to, getting to help build the products that really are changing the world. The hours are reasonable, you are treated as a human being and respected as an engineer, and the on-site breakfast lunch and dinner are unmatched anywhere. Luckily google makes their billions using only a small fraction of their total workforce, leaving lots of capital available to dedicate resources to other projects that aren't purely motivated by short-term profits (but rather those that help build press for the organization and are theoretically interesting and innovative at the same time). Tech-talks about a whole range of topics not strictly required for you to carry out your job responsibilities but just for your general education are a huge plus. Google employs some of the most innovative thinkers and builders of our time.

      Cons

      Very large organization. Seemed to provide fewer job advancement opportunities than I was looking for. Little project ownership (feature ownership perhaps, but typically the project involves many many people). In my case, the project had three different managers who worked out of two different offices, leading to lots of confusion.

      4.0
      May 1, 2009

      One of the best places in the world to work.

      Site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's a company with a conscience, and the dilbert-esque moments are rarer than at other companies. Plus the food is *amazing* (at least in the larger offices)

      Cons

      Long hours, high stress. Depending on which part of the organization you are in, expectations can be wildly different for the same job level, and promotion is a very tricky path and done by committee, and decisions from them seem arbitrary and hard to justify. It seems to have become an unwritten rule that not seeking promotion over a 2-3 year period is unacceptable.

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