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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,349 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 48,349 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
      Jun 15, 2008

      It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company has name recognition. Also, in engineering at least, you learn a lot about best practices. Most Googlers are pleasant and competent.

      Cons

      The founders often change their minds, causing teams to scramble. They don't seem to care about the damage they cause as a result.

      5.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Still one of the best places to work at.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working at Google, you have really smart co-workers. In the beginning it struck me that people quickly understood my ideas, something I wasn't used to from college. Another great advantage at Google is that it is very engineering driven. Generally, engineers are given enough of freedom to work on what they consider to be most important. The role of product managers is to help engineers figure out what that is and to help in communications, but ultimately engineers are making the decision. Being an engineer, I very much enjoy this and I think it makes a lot of sense given that engineers understand the technologies involved best.

      Cons

      A lot of the interesting problems and challenges have already been solved. In particular as a junior software engineer, you'll work on not so exciting tasks. Also, due to the fast growth of the company, the impact an individual makes is not as big as it used to be.

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