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      Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

      4.3

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (1,543 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      64% approve of CEO

      78% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,543 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      3.0
      Jul 4, 2010

      Good company and perqs; work itself is often lacking in substance and satisfaction

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * World-class, brilliant coworkers * Excellent benefits and physical environment * Above-average total compensation compared to other local companies * Some groups do very cutting-edge work

      Cons

      * Much of the work is not interesting * Mid-level executive leadership is questionable * "Death march" schedules and random priority changes becoming more common * No career path from engineer to having substantive influence over what gets worked on * Too many overqualified people forced into work that's beneath their abilities

      4.0
      May 20, 2010

      Good place if you want to "settle down"

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The culture - Google has an amazing culture and is a very engineering centric organization. They pretty much defined how the modern silicon valley company should look like and they still do it very well. The learning opportunities - It's possible to move easily between teams at Google and you can learn a lot of about a lot of things. The perks - Everyone's heard of the perks, and they are awesome. The food is great, the benefits are great, the salaries are competitive with bonuses and stock options.

      Cons

      Sometimes difficult to get recognition for a job well done. Can be a little hectic on some teams, while it can be painfully slow on others. Moving from one team to another hinges on getting well known, and in some instances promoted, yet the promotion process is quite difficult to make it work for you. You may try to get promoted one year and get refused by a committee when another one would have given you the promotion, because the members of that committee were more aware of what you did or who you are.

      4.0
      Mar 30, 2010

      Google Job experience

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great products with high impact. Great employee benefits Smart people to work with Stable and established company Lots of interesting projects

      Cons

      Large company comes with some politics and harder to make huge impact. Not much more in the cons area. Google is a great place to work.

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