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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,333 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      82% 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 48,333 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
      3.0
      Apr 25, 2008

      Don't work at Google unless you want to corporate climb to nowhere.

      Adwords associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Good benefits, decent pay. Free food, and access to many amenities.

      Cons

      If you aren't technical there is nowhere for you to go professionally. Basically, they hire really smart people and dont' tell them they are putting them in a dead end job. There really isn't much possibility for movement, and the job ends up consuming 90% of your time for average pay. Its kind of a scam.

      5.0
      Apr 24, 2008

      Google PM

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people Impact Great Benefts

      Cons

      Can't think of any right now

      5.0
      Apr 23, 2008

      Google is a great place to work as an engineer - just don't expect a small company environment

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Google is one of the first places I've worked where I feel like I'm surrounded by people that are way smarter than I am. This makes for a really creative environment, where everyone is pushing you to go beyond your limits and make something even better. It also means that you can just trust that everyone around you is really good at what they do. There's also a huge focus on only launching things when they're ready, which, as an engineer, means when something does launch, you're really proud of it, and don't feel like it's half-assed because you were rushing to a deadline and cut a lot of corners. Oh, and the free food and benefits rock, but they wouldn't keep me at any job if I didn't enjoy the work and the people. But when you do like the job and the people, they make it that much better:)

      Cons

      Google is getting big. This means a couple things: It's no longer always a "startup" feel. There's a lot of teams, and a lot of infrastructure, and there's starting to be a bit of bureaucracy here and there (though management has done a pretty good job killing it on sight whenever they see it). Also, because we have a lot of users and are always in the limelight, we have to be really careful about launching things, which often means that launching something requires jumping through more hoops to make sure it's scalable and stable, and that all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed, in order to not have a bad press situation or an emergency caused by an overloaded system. This is good for production launches, but can slow down experimentation in the early stages of a product.

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