Google Technical Program Manager III reviews

4.1

91% would recommend to a friend

(183 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

58% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Technical Program Manager III employees have rated Google with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 183 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Technical Program Manager III professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Technical Program Manager III professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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183 reviews
5.0
Feb 17, 2012
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Pros

Google has a fantastic engineering culture and an incredible practice of software development. Everyone in the company has something valuable to offer, and there's a lot to learn from the people and the organization.

Cons

Google is getting to be a quite large company. It's nearly impossible to know about everything that's going on in every organization. Furthermore, the love from the public has waned in recent years which can be a bit of a bummer.

5.0
Jan 23, 2012
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Pros

Working with smart people daily, amazing gourmet free food, fantastic career growth opportunities within Google. If you don't like the project you're working on, you can transfer to a different project, even to be a different "type" of engineer (e.g. frontend/backend/storage). I work with people who've worked on several projects at Google. Working on projects that you genuinely believe help make the world a better place, helping users connect with each other or give them greater access to information. I like the direction Larry has taken the company, feels more focused now than before. Very pro-women, pro-LGBT, pro-minority environment. I'm a female software engineer and have not seen a shred of the sexism or attitude towards women that I've experienced at other workplaces.

Cons

While not totally necessary, being on a higher profile project helps with recognition and career advancement. I work on one such project and have since I've been at Google, so I can't really say what it's like if you work on other projects. Having a good manager (as I do) is definitely important to being promoted and getting put on projects where you can earn recognition. Not all managers are as awesome as mine and their reports suffer for it in terms of career growth and interesting tasks to work on.

2.0
Jan 21, 2012
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Pros

Perks are second to none. Google provides every employee with free food freshly prepared on site each day by professional chefs. Google also provides free transportation to / from work from many areas where employees live. Google also has health care facilities on-site so that employees don't have to spend time driving to the doctor. Google employees can also pay to have their hair cut, get their oil changed, get their dry cleaning done, even get their bicycle repaired all on-site.

Cons

To thrive at Google as a software engineer, at least a Masters degree in computer science or equivalent course of study is needed. A Google employee without a masters degree or Phd will not see the same opportunities for advancement or career development. Some of the technologies used at Google are proprietary, so skills developed in those technologies are not relevant at other tech companies.

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