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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,493 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 48,493 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
Aug 20, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

-Free food -Very young management and college-like atmosphere -Google's market dominance and absence of significant competitors -Potential for high salaries at the higher management levels -Very smart people

Cons

-Low compensation for the lower positions -Limited promotion opportunities -Most people here are over qualified for the type of work they do, resulting in lack of challenge. -Becoming increasingly bureaucratic as it grows, which means more budget approvals and red tape. -Hard to diffirentiate yourself amongst all the smart people, making it harder to advance. -The lower pay in Google is supposed to be balanced out by all the 'perks' provided to you in the office, however unless you think that someone else knows better your consumption habits, you would probably want to have the cash instead!

4.0
Apr 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- good benefits & good salaries. Google treats its engineers very well, even in these economic times - very smart people, world class engineers (quality varies from group to group, though) that make very fun co-workers whether to discuss life, politics, or engineering - big impact. You know the stuff you build can affect, positively or negatively, millions of users

Cons

- inconsistent vision. You're never quite sure what senior management is thinking, or whether they have a master plan. In fact after working there for several years you're beginning to think they don't. A lot of decisions are whim decisions. Projects get killed on a whim and resurrected on a whim - launches & rollouts extremely frustrating. A lot of launch gates & reviews, some are understandable but some are quite ridiculous. Too few people control too many aspects of things.

4.0
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Bright, motivated colleagues. Willingness to change and try new things. Low barriers to trying new methods. 2) Ave to High Total Compensation, particularly when benchmarked against competitors like msft, cisco, etc. (base+ind bonus_+ co bonus). Low base, balanced by other compensation. 3) Collaborative and at least, striving to be ethical, culture 4) Great perks, free gormet food, low cost massage, excellent heathcare, top 401k match, guest speakers

Cons

1) Work-aholics. Motivated employees driven to work long hours (65hrs+ per week) 2) Little opportunity for positional advancement, given flat corp culture 3) Poor managers. Philosophy is to hire great people that don't need mgmt. Need to be comfortable acting without much guidance. Little formal training. 4) Can be difficult for folks that like structure, or can't adapt to be fast paced, ever changing culture, ever changing managers....etc. 5) Helpful to be outgoing, networker...

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