Google Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(1,570 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

64% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,570 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Sep 1, 2025
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Pros

Great Benefits Decent Pay (but declining rapidly towards average) Large Scale of Work

Cons

Increasing level of Top-Down leadership, old Google was very bottom up. Promotions and recognition are increasingly going to those who can sell their work, instead of those who do the work. Despite having a largely distributed workforce, travel budgets are terrible and getting permission to travel is difficult unless you are L6+.

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