Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,382 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,382 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
May 1, 2009
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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
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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.

5.0
Apr 29, 2009
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Pros

fast paced environment, opportunities to learn, super smart and nice coworkers, free food

Cons

getting increasingly political, some benefits are getting cut off

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