Google Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering reviews

4.5

91% would recommend to a friend

(145 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

95% positive business outlook

Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering employees have rated Google with 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 145 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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145 reviews
1.0
Jun 8, 2017
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Pros

- The compensation package is okay. - The free food is decent. - The benefits are above and beyond. - Lots of name recognition.

Cons

- Social Justice work is included in your performance review. Some engineers spend up to 50% of their time working on diversity and inclusion. So they've essentially become social workers. - Various orgs in the company have engaged in what can only be described as struggle sessions. Where employees admit that they are racist, sexist, and homophobic during meetings. - An internal mailing list tracks micro-aggressions committed each week. Everyone is walking on egg shells. - Managers have admitted to giving bad references to employees that "make diversity and inclusion difficult." Which is not a very good precedent considering what a subjective criteria that is for wrecking someone's career.

3.0
Jan 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

5.0
Dec 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work. If you have a good manager (and most of the SRE managers in Zurich ARE good), you'll always find a way to remain engaged ad grow.

Cons

it's a big company requires process- and people-oriented skills, more than just results-oriented enthusiasm to succeed. As an SRE, you use mostly home grown tools and technologies: it's easy to loose touch with the rest of the world. Working at Google is a tradeoff between tactical skills and strategic experience.

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