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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,392 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 48,392 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
      1.0
      Jan 19, 2015

      Most stressful job ever. You get fired if you even sneeze too loud.

      Gsx operator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The Pay was great, when you got hours.

      Cons

      No Union, no sense of security, horrible working conditions, your not allowed to have a voice. No one seems to know what's going on, rules change every week. There are non stop emails and sometimes even phone calls during your personal time. Even after a 10 hour shift you only get 30 minutes lunch. You often have to perform the role of 3 people at once.

      1.0
      Apr 3, 2017

      Payments Processing at Google Boulder, CO

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great salary. Great benefits. Great food. Great location. Some really great people.

      Cons

      Don't expect to see great code. Expect a mess which everyone is struggling to understand, caused by fast pace, rapid turnover, and some really spectacular bad past design decisions that make things very hard to trace, but are now deeply embedded, and would be very hard to remove. Having said that, if this is your thing, great, they will reward you handsomely to help keep them afloat. Company is extremely PC. But you already knew that. Apparently, surveillance of personal email/networks. I can't prove it but I was creeped out too many times.

      3.0
      Jan 19, 2017

      Great place, but not for everyone

      Site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's Google. Everybody knows the pros. They're all true. Free food, free full-service coffee bars, on-site massage, hair polishing, whatever. Lots of really really big systems to work on. You get to learn about some really cool stuff before the rest of the world.

      Cons

      The work environment can be very stressful. Open-office floor plans dominate. They set high-pressure expectations intentionally, to make people strive harder. If you have an anxiety disorder, this is *terrible* and you will not thrive here. Attempting any sort of disability accommodations process will become an N-way telephone game from hell.

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