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
4.0
Nov 23, 2008
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Pros

No problem is too large to tackle. You get a chance to work on things not possible elsewhere because of the scale of the resources you have available. You also work with very smart and capable people.

Cons

You're given the opportunity to work on your own ideas, but you often find that someone else is working on exactly the same thing. It's hard to find an interesting piece of work that you can call your own. Also projects are getting more and more siloed into the different offices, so you will only be able to work on specific projects.

5.0
Oct 5, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Google has plenty of talented engineers, impressive computational infrastructure and resources, and the culture to build products that make big impacts. Working for Google is an ideal start point of young engineers or new graduates. There are plenty of challenging problems to solve, and you have the flexibility to choose the projects that interest you most. I am not saying that you can give up the current project at any time. it is responsible to finish the projects that started, but you are encouraged to switch projects every 1 to 2 years, or at least, you can do the "fun" things with your 20% time.

Cons

If you want to be prompted sooner than the majority, and you are not lucky enough that work in a highly visible project, then you have to pay much more than usual to beat the performance of others - because others are good too.

5.0
Sep 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Perks are phenomenal! Projects are extremely high impact. The company trusts engineers to "do the right thing" and prefers to give engineers information so they can make decisions instead of hording information to make the decisions themselves. Engineers get all the best tools (Big monitors, lots of computing resources) and don't have much red-tape getting normal stuff done.

Cons

Career progress into management is a little tough, as there's no "Supervisor" role, and the Managers usually have >50 people reporting to them. It can be done, but it's easier to stay in the engineer track.

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