Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,493 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 48,493 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
4.0
May 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

First off, you get to work on problems at huge scale. Even the simplest issues can become remarkably thorny and non-trivial at such scale. Second, Google has arguably one of the best developer tools in the industry. It helps you be many times more efficient than the average. Third, Google's hiring bar is very high; so your co-workers are often brilliant, and you are seldom slowed down by dependencies on other engineers/teams.

Cons

Google is large, and so each Product Area / Product / Team have their own sub-culture. You might fit well in some, and be a miserable in others. There really is no good way to tell. Having brilliant co-workers is a double-edged sword. This also implies a lot of competition for interesting projects, and the bar for getting a promotion is so high that it is not uncommon for people to get promoted for over 5 years or more.

3.0
Apr 9, 2017

Going from great to average

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, friendly intelligent people, fun, high impact on the world, especially at the lower levels.

Cons

Projects get canceled, often unexpectedly and seemingly arbitrarily by higher ups many levels up, that you never meet. Sometimes entire sites get closed for "business decisions", not based on the projects being worked on there, but just due to internal power struggles. Work life balance, 20% time, and other principles being eroded over time. The higher up you go, the less friendly and intelligent people are, and the more like the stereotypical power hungry pointy haired bosses.

2.0
Mar 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I liked the free food when I visited the main campus. Some of the people I met there were pretty good.

Cons

It didn't turn out to be what I thought it would be. Maybe I was just disillusioned by the hype but it isnt all milk and cookies and puppies at google.... just be aware that you're going to work for mega corporation not some fun "start up"

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