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      Google

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      Google reviews

      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,373 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      82% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 48,373 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
      5.0
      Sep 4, 2013

      Great company to get you spoiled on perks but culture is getting very corporate.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      High salary. Many perks. Great breakfast and lunch. Working with some very smart people. Learning all the Google technology. Free phone or tablet once a year. If you worked on a cool product and post on social media, you would probably have many followers. Company encourages employees to move around within the company. Free shuttle service to work.

      Cons

      Working with some very smart people can also turn into a bad thing because some smart people are real a** hole sometimes. Company is getting big and corporate. 20% project is available only when 100% is done. Performance review is still a mystery to me. I had gotten bad rating for working my butt off and good rating for not doing much.

      1.0
      Jul 9, 2013

      Not as good inside as it looks outside

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free food, great hardware, cool campus, amazing benefits

      Cons

      Unless you are a SWE you should not work at Google. Lots of red tape and a complete lack of regard for dogfooder feedback

      2.0
      Dec 10, 2012

      Frustrating, bureaucratic, impersonal

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You have awesome, competent coworkers. The challenges are huge and you have unique opportunities that are only available at Google. The compensation and benefits are excellent.

      Cons

      Blind allocation: Your initial assignment may have nothing to do with your interests or experience, and policy is that you must stay in that assignment for 18 months before you can transfer (though there are exceptions). Google's success makes it difficult to criticize; "How can we be doing it wrong if we're making this much money?"

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