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      Google

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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,517 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,517 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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      49K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 22, 2018

      Web Solutions Engineer

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Software engineers are only respected @Google. It is engineering-driven company. The perks are amazing including free breakfast, lunch, an dinner every weekday. Bonuses and equity grants are great for SWE or higher level L5+ in non SWE. Work life balance is great.

      Cons

      Be aware of gTech WSE roles. If you are being interviewed, only consider SWE unless you don't care. Bureaucracy, slow to respond to market threats, bloated teams, cross-divisional tension. The quality of the engineers is possibly dropping with lots of unexperienced engineers. Promotion in gTech is based on who you know. Google has lots of biased against minorities such as caucasian Americans.

      3.0
      Jan 1, 2018

      Decent job but difficult to advance

      Operations assembler
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Perks like food and gym are great. Very friendly coworkers. Good work/life balance at my site (you can turn phone off at shift end unless you're on call)

      Cons

      In this position you are very limited in what work you're allowed to do. There are no promotions from this job and getting a transfer to a different job can be difficult (depending on your location). Doing the same job for 5+ years while waiting for a transfer to be available is boring. The work can be physically difficult, many employees get repetitive stress injuries, back pain etc after a few years. Cutthroat competitive work environment leads to people rushing to have the best numbers and getting hurt. Performance review process doesn't always fairly reflect work and there are no appeals. No cost of living raises, COL increased a lot since I started but raises haven't kept up.

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