Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,458 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 48,458 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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48K reviews
2.0
Apr 16, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Google had a good salary, not great, but ok for the present market. It's a company that is flush with money so there are a lot of interesting things to do if you can get on the right teams.

Cons

A very long commute for me, they should allow people to work all over the bay area. A lot of politics, 10 percent of the people are actually bright and know what they are doing, the rest just latch onto their coattails. The people prides itself on have very very very smart people; I didn't see that many such people while I was there. If you are not on the right team the work can be rather boring.

2.0
Mar 21, 2017

Increasingly disappointing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing perks. Improved work/life balance. Lots of internal mobility opportunities. Supports career/personal development with a multitude of internal classes and resources.

Cons

Increasing pool of ineffective and inexperienced middle managers. HR doesn't do anything perceivable to remove toxic employees (even ones who have a proven track record of questionable ethics/morality and embarrassingly low employee feedback scores). Lots of hierarchy. As a result, culture is quickly degrading.

4.0
May 27, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Top notch employees - Campus is unbelievable - People are very approachable regardless of hierarchy - Perks and benefits are plenty

Cons

- No training. Must learn on the go - Re-orgs are extremely common. You never know what's gonna happen next month - Can sound very strange but collecting the desired data at Google can be challenging - Great disconnection between tech and non-tech teams

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