Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,482 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,482 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
5.0
May 10, 2014

This is Disneyland

Anonymous employee
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Pros

While those who come to Google right out to school may not realize it, Google is really Disneyland. Nowhere else in the world is there a company that offers the same breadth of opportunity, innovation and incredible support for its employees. It is *not* normal anywhere else to have three michelin star dining experiences, easy access dry cleaning and car detailing, gym and massage services and more.

Cons

Perhaps the only con is a result of the 'pro' above. There are a lot of people who have only worked at Google and no where else since graduating from college. There is a lack of appreciation for how lucky we all are.

4.0
Mar 31, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great salary and benefits. Wide range of products to work on. Name recognition conveys huge status. Great people and culture.

Cons

Google has an enormous number of divisions, and I can only speak to the one I ended up in - YMMV. My work area was a warehouse with open ceilings, concrete floors, and metal desks arranged in groups of six people in a workspace. The interview process was generic, so that once you are approved, you go into a pool of candidates from which managers pick new hires. I only had a half-hour phone interview with my future boss before I had to decide whether to take the position. My boss never allowed me to work with anyone on a project to get me up to speed, despite numerous requests for help. He assigned me the task of writing the specs for a major modification which included several groups not in my area - a task I would not expect of anyone with less than two years experience in the division, yet he assigned it to a person with less than four months experience. HR won't let you change groups until you have completed a year in your first position, so no allowance for bad fits is made.

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