Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,472 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 48,472 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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1.0
Jun 15, 2016
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Pros

Great people to work with on your team and good opportunity to network since people leave so fast to other companies.

Cons

If you are a contractor, don't expect career growth. Take your experience and leave. If you are a vendor, then expect to be in hell because you will not have any hopes for promotion or conversion. If a full time position opens up on your team, expect management to block your application (even if you are qualified) and once they hire a full time employee, expect to have to train that person. Full time and vendor management tends to micromanage and is generally unappreciative and suspicious if you work under them with a red badge. Don't expect any work flexibility or autonomy. Expect to be treated like a second class citizen and don't expect to get any respect. The Google perks like food, gym, etc really depends on where your office is located. If you are a TVC, then likely you will not get easy access to these perks because you may be located on a "vendor only" office that is specially set up without these amenities.

5.0
Jun 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They recognize and reward top performers better than any other company I've worked for. I got promoted in under a year, so of course I think the perf process is fair. They let you do anything you put your mind to. I got to do a 20% project with the self-driving car team. The projects are amazing and interesting, the type that make me excited to come to work every day. Great and talented coworkers can be rare to have in other companies, but they seem to be everywhere at Google. Google contracts with the local music school in Mountain View to provide music lessons at work, for anyone who is interested. I am taking advantage of this, and have music lessons during the work day, which is an amazing perk to have. There are music rooms scattered around where you can play piano, guitar, drums, etc... They really seem to care about your wellbeing, not just how much work they get out of you. There is a focus on long-term development for employees, such as giving us lots of resources to learn new things, from programming languages to music to machine learning, I can get involved and learn just about anything at Google. Then there's the "regular" stuff I now take for granted, like the free food and microkitchens. You can bring your dog to work, which is awesome. I get a full body table massage every other week. There are clubs for just about any kind of thing, including re-enacting ancient battles with foam swords.

Cons

Sometimes long cafe lines while you're waiting for free food. Large campus requires you to use GBike to get around sometimes (I'm lazy), although they do provide buses and even an uber-like pickup service. So many things to see and do, between talks, special events and parties, that it can be hard to focus on your work.

2.0
Jun 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Great benefits and pay - Lots of office environment perks - Very Smart hard working colleagues - 20% time with other Google projects - Transparency at the top of the organization but it doesn't trickle down to middle management

Cons

- Poor middle management that plays favorites - Employees in remote offices have fewer opportunities - Not very welcoming especially to diverse employees - minority employees are leaving at an alarming rate - The Enterprise division has a different/negative culture than the main Google/Alphabet - Re-orgs are extremely common. You never know what's gonna happen next month - Big Company Bureaucracy - Small teams can be very politicized and somewhat mediocre - Salary decisions are made using someone’s current salary instead of what the job is worth - It appears they are working hard on this but most of us are still affected by it.

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