Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,516 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 48,516 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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49K reviews
3.0
Apr 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The vision of the company is genuine. Your family and friends love that you work there. The benefits are unparalleled.

Cons

The numerous reorgs on the non-engineering side have left a lot of people disenchanted. In many of those reorgs, people weren't being recognized as individuals, but more just cogs that need to be put in place for Google to build the next $10BN business. Google talks a good talk and employees believe management. However, over the years employee's expectations have become so high, that when an individual is in a poor job situation, they feel like Google owes them something better. So you have people who sit in a role/team/dept thinking the situation will get better or that management has a good plan, and they'll be fine once they give it a few months. In reality, that person is either overqualified for the role or a bad fit, but are too complacent to change. Many employees can't even fathom leaving Google, so they sit there and hope it works out and will figure it out once the new dream role opens up. But that doesn't happen and so they wait it out until the next reorg. The cycle continues.

5.0
Mar 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing perks and compensation Opportunity to work with incredibly smart people Work on cool, strategic problems that can be really outlandish and experimental See across all levels of the organization

Cons

-Doesn't generally lead to operational work - Some projects seem nice to have, not critical - Can be a transitional role

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