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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,490 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,490 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
      Mar 5, 2010

      Great place to experience hungry candidates; horrific place for experienced people with 8+ years experience.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      perks location flexibility in working remotely, at least before 2/2009

      Cons

      - Immature or no leadership and middle management - subtly arrogant in some cases, very arrogant - extremely competitive so there's little trust among employees - non confrontational culture, so issues are not resolved - management means that they let issues get resolved or fought at the employees level or tucked under the rug - too much hype and not enough thought to what they do

      4.0
      Dec 25, 2009

      Very competitive, but a great place to work

      Product marketing manager
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      Pros

      Google pays well, the benefits are remarkably good, there is a good work/life balance and the calibre of the employees is absolutely 1st class. Employees are treated very fairly, management decisions communicated well, and decision made is a collaborative, consensus driven way. The company's brand is also so strong that it is very easy to build up a great network of contacts in other company's - pretty much nobody will refuse a call from someone at Google it seems.

      Cons

      Google is rammed with absolutely top class people...which means it is very difficult to stand out, make promotion & get the best projects. This can be frustrating to people who have come from smaller, less well-staffed companies (who are most likely used to being the big-star) as they can end up feeling unappreciated. Googlers are also a fairly arrogant bunch...which means that it can be difficult to lead, as everyone is convinced of their own rightness, and the overly democratic method of decision making means things can move more slowly than you would hope.

      5.0
      Dec 5, 2009

      Frankly, I can't imagine myself working anywhere else, now that I know this place.

      Senior software engineer
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      Pros

      First of all: I have an infinite respect for the founders, their ethics, the kind of culture they infused in the company and the continuous (positive) influence that they have on how it's operated. I also admire deeply Eric Schmidt, both as a motivator and as the provider of a very strong vision and leadership. The openness, the infinite possibilities for feedback, and the attitude to listening to that feedback and try to convert it in meliorative actions is something that makes me think I wouldn't work anywhere else. Of course no company is perfect, but frankly I have a hard time trying to imagine a company working better than this one, at least for what concerns employee lifestyle, work-life balance, career possibilities, open communication, etc.

      Cons

      Sometimes it seems that the company loses sight of some of its activities, which results in duplication and scarce integration of efforts. Also, not everything is "interesting cutting edge technological work", at Google: sometimes very smart people have to do very boring jobs, because the areas that bring the higher income are also the most established, less innovative and most "traditional", in terms of what kind of work activities they need.

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