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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,390 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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48K reviews
1.0
Oct 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Food Lots of primary colored campuses McKinsey folks around campus ignore all they learned to lead Google (great for ineffective leaders, bad for those that stand for change) PR team is a well oiled machine Google is in its own reality, outside opinions that don't agree are ignored / rebuffed

Cons

Ex mcKinsey folks become sheep like here and forget that their insights could be used to affect change at a Recruiting function that is lackluster (take them out of The gplex) they couldnt recruit top talent. Several recruiting leaders from the UK and seem to lack basic strategy skills but excel at their own PR Recruiting is a protracted process that doesn't need to be Hiring Managers take mediocre results and lack ability to sniff good recruiting talent from folks that talk a good game Recruiters cow tow to a team of paper pushers that review Packets to the detriment of great candidates and candidate experience

5.0
May 17, 2015

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Culture, benefits, career opportunities and overall work environment are pretty well-balanced and stimulating. Engineers have a pivot influence on the products.

Cons

With time it becomes more like a large company with inertia and all the stuff that is associated with it.

1.0
May 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits, free food, interesting problems to solve

Cons

The perf system creates a super toxic culture. People are encouraged to serve their self interests instead of what’s best for the company or consumer. In order to get promoted, you need to launch something impactful. Sounds valid right? No, because once something launches people move on to the next big thing instead of maintaining the product. As such, people who are rude, sexist, unpleasant and not team players get promoted. One of the Sr product managers drives his roadmap entirely based on what will get attention from marketing or in the press, so instead of building for everyone, we build based on what new idea marketing has. On top of that, he had had multiple complaints filed against him be women, and has faced no disciplinary action. Also, this is one place where you are constantly told to “stay in your lane”. I’ve never worked anywhere where trying to fill gaps in for the team have repeatedly been not only discouraged, but dinged for. And the justification is always “it won’t help your perf.” Meaning that I can’t get raises, bonuses or promotions because I’m doing something off my official job description. The people here are entitled and when there’s a poor performer, instead of taking care of the problem, they just shuffle them into another team. It’s like the Catholic Church. Yeah the free food and perks are great, but it’s been a hostile work environment from day 1.

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