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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,348 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,348 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
1.0
Oct 14, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The free food is fantastic, Google grabs attention on your C.V.

Cons

Where do I start? If you have completed more than 5 years work in your career, don't even consider joining this glorified telesales centre. It is mind-numbing work, filled with smart people bored out of their heads and quitely killing time to get the 2 year stint onto their CV. The place is full of politics. My line manager did not address me for more than one sentence at a time for the first FOUR MONTHS I worked there there. It simply was not going to bring her any benefit or kudos to be seen fraternising with an inferior. The arrogance of the place is pretty astounding too. 'You should be honoured to be working there'. My peers were great people, but it's the kind of place you have to be sure you are going to fit in, because if you don't (in my team about 20% of us) you will not last more than a year before slowly losing the will to live. If fussball, free food and a great social life is high on your agenda, go for it. If self-development, career progression, nurturing and supportive environment and understanding management are important to you, look elsewhere

5.0
May 17, 2015

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Culture, benefits, career opportunities and overall work environment are pretty well-balanced and stimulating. Engineers have a pivot influence on the products.

Cons

With time it becomes more like a large company with inertia and all the stuff that is associated with it.

1.0
May 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, free food, interesting problems to solve

Cons

The perf system creates a super toxic culture. People are encouraged to serve their self interests instead of what’s best for the company or consumer. In order to get promoted, you need to launch something impactful. Sounds valid right? No, because once something launches people move on to the next big thing instead of maintaining the product. As such, people who are rude, sexist, unpleasant and not team players get promoted. One of the Sr product managers drives his roadmap entirely based on what will get attention from marketing or in the press, so instead of building for everyone, we build based on what new idea marketing has. On top of that, he had had multiple complaints filed against him be women, and has faced no disciplinary action. Also, this is one place where you are constantly told to “stay in your lane”. I’ve never worked anywhere where trying to fill gaps in for the team have repeatedly been not only discouraged, but dinged for. And the justification is always “it won’t help your perf.” Meaning that I can’t get raises, bonuses or promotions because I’m doing something off my official job description. The people here are entitled and when there’s a poor performer, instead of taking care of the problem, they just shuffle them into another team. It’s like the Catholic Church. Yeah the free food and perks are great, but it’s been a hostile work environment from day 1.

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