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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,477 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,477 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
      3.0
      Mar 2, 2024

      Quiet Cutting is in full swing

      Associate principal
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      Pros

      Great teammates, still top notch perks and benefits even if some are being quietly sunset

      Cons

      Very large and bureaucratic, decision making takes forever and need sign offs from multiple teams with different goals/agendas. The culture has also dramatically shifted. With pressure to cut costs, middle management is using "performance" as a reason to get rid of people when performance is not the issue. This has led to toxic teams all around who will do anything to not be in the crosshairs next.

      2.0
      Feb 27, 2024

      Google has gone downhill

      Senior staff software engineer
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      Pros

      Google has many impactful products that require real innovation to work on, especially search. It's hard to think of how technology could improve more people's lives. Google also has deep pockets, which allows it to invest in cutting-edge technology, in particular LLMs. Google may not build the first version of , but you can bet it will invest enough money that it will catch up.

      Cons

      That dead look behind everyone's eyes. The hypocrisy in management, especially in its flimsy justifications of layoffs. The dead feeling inside yourself, and the viral despair from being surrounded by others who are equally unhappy.

      2.0
      Feb 7, 2024

      Uninspired culture

      Product manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Good pay - Good benefits - Smart people all around

      Cons

      - The culture is awful, risk-averse, and crushing. People are jaded, have a not-invented-here mentality, and are afraid of doing anything that seems even a bit risky or new. They will do what the VP says, and nobody has any incentive to come up with new ideas or stand up for stuff that's outside that safe, VP-approved path. - Everyone is nice to your face, but will go behind your back to your manager to complain without any pause - People used to care about the users, their friends, teams, etc - but now they just care about doing the minimum and not getting fired. What a terrible atmosphere to work in.

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