Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,390 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 48,390 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
4.0
Jan 10, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Incredibly smart, engaging co-workers. Competitive compensation. Very understanding culture and no dirty backstabbing politics - people are nice to each other. If there are politics, they are usually the the extent of trying to shape a business or product a certain way, but not in the way of trying to get someone fired or steal their job or anything.

Cons

They don't have their strategy together. Many business decisions are made by engineers who just don't know many of the basics of business strategy and so fall into the "if you build it they will come" mentality and invest in projects that aren't thought through from a customer perspective. The company's first rule is "focus on the user and all else will follow" but they don't really do that often.

4.0
Sep 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive compensation, great perks, flexibility on working hours. Working spacing is really nice as well. Great managers. Possibility to communicate ideas as junior team member

Cons

Becoming really big and hence unavoidable bureaucracy, limited career growth opportunity (hard and slow to get promoted), jobs are mostly mundane grinding work.

4.0
Apr 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with top-notch engineers Well-maintained state of the art software development tools Good collaboration between co-workers Pay is good

Cons

Overcrowded poorly maintained campus (Mountain View, CA). Limited parking space. Noisy cramped open-space office reduces productivity. All that keeps getting worse as more and more employees are packed into the same buildings. I am surprised perks show as "pros" in reviews; personally I would pay out of pocket for food without long lines or quiet office.

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