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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,491 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 48,491 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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2.0
Feb 7, 2024

Uninspired culture

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Pros

- Good pay - Good benefits - Smart people all around

Cons

- The culture is awful, risk-averse, and crushing. People are jaded, have a not-invented-here mentality, and are afraid of doing anything that seems even a bit risky or new. They will do what the VP says, and nobody has any incentive to come up with new ideas or stand up for stuff that's outside that safe, VP-approved path. - Everyone is nice to your face, but will go behind your back to your manager to complain without any pause - People used to care about the users, their friends, teams, etc - but now they just care about doing the minimum and not getting fired. What a terrible atmosphere to work in.

3.0
Feb 6, 2024

Fun but not

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Pros

- Pretty okay workload - Fun work environment - Awesome colleagues - "Challenging but worth it" projects - Good for independent people but can also double as team player. - Good environment for developing skills

Cons

- Terrible management (temperamental and extremely bossy, must get on their good side because they have bias) - Not good for those that dont enjoy overtime (sometimes OT goes up to extra 3 hours...) - Salary pay is unexpectingly lower from past standards. Maybe its me? - I had to work during my offday btw. Like 3 times separately...(Please make sure you know your rights as an employee) - "No room for mistakes" sorry but what kind of excuse is this. Humans make mistakes this made me mad - apparently you have to be tip-top perfect to be in this line of work... - Holidays and leaves are not enough. This is NY man.

2.0
Jan 5, 2024
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Pros

• Pay and benefits are competitive • The majority of employees are kind and respectful aka. "googley" • There are numerous product teams to try new things and grow • Lots of internal resources to grow one's career, leadership, and skill set

Cons

Google used to have an amazing company culture and flat structural leadership. It's what made Google unique and stand out from the rest. Google has since lost it's overall 'unique company culture' by squeezing out innovation unless its perfecting AI to beat out its competitors. Company moral has tanked, employee input no longer feels authentically heard, valued, and actionable, budget constraints have caused a slim chance in promotion - even when consistently demonstrating next level performance. It's also become difficult to transfer btwn different teams to grow one's Google career. Headcount and resources have been restricted, resulting in stiff competition when applying to new roles. Google has become another heavy, top-down corporate enterprise using tall organizational structure for more leadership control. I have truly enjoyed working at Google for many years. These past 2-3 years have really flipped in the opposite way. My hope is that Sundar and leadership revert to putting Googlers and users first, rather than stock and revenue.

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