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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,440 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,440 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
      5.0
      Aug 13, 2009

      Awesome place to work

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Highly recommend it! Entrusted with a lot of responsibility.

      Cons

      Not much to say here :)

      4.0
      Aug 11, 2009

      Smart people, a comfortable BIG company, lots of perks

      Senior engineering
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The many perks including free gourmet food, snacks galore, cultural events, speakers/authors, lots of smart people from all over the world to meet and work with. Many choices of projects to work on and relative freedom to do so. There is plenty of work to do here from improving existing systems and creating new products. Kid in a candy store if you are eager and driven to make things better. Wide range of technologies - handhelds, operating systems, HTML5, Linux, file systems, compilers.

      Cons

      Lots of smart people, but lots of subpar people somehow managed to get hired as well. 20% time is a myth. I suppose some people get to do that. I don't know any personally as every group I've worked with is stressed and working hard on the project they're on. At Google it was better to be early than good. Being in the wake of a mass exodus of (mostly) young millionaires (many of whose first job was Google) and being handed their mediocre work to fix can really kill your incentive to "go further" here, especially when later senior folks are not well compensated equity-wise. Google is a big company that provides a comfy job but none of the burning desire to go that extra mile because they aren't making the effort to take you with them.

      2.0
      Aug 4, 2009

      Growing Pains

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The swag, food, and pride of working for a profitable company are definitely worth the problems that the company faces.

      Cons

      Everyone's had the kool-aide! They are having growing pains, too. It is a terrible place to start a career, many would say.

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