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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,455 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      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 48,455 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
      Dec 21, 2023

      Went downhill since Jan 2023

      Security engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay is good, and the food is decent. Does not make up for the toxic environment.

      Cons

      Ever since the 2023 layoffs, moral hit a depressing low that management is oblivious to. Quiet layoffs happen every month, and people ops (HR) quickly takes action against anyone talking about it on LinkedIn. Every L7 and L8 has their own silo and teams no longer have direction nor shared goals. Security firm Mandiant was purchased in 2022. Lots of us were let go shortly afterwards, and now Mandiant are the ones getting laid off. Toxic place. Bad moral. Will be looking elsewhere for sure.

      1.0
      Jul 21, 2023

      Don't believe the hype

      Software engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits and the salary are fine Early career growth is solid

      Cons

      Toxic management culture is ingrained. Ratio of burnt out employees is tragically high. Tech island skills aren't highly transferable

      1.0
      Mar 1, 2023

      from titan to titanic, with unqualified leaders at the helm

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, which may be the first thing to go once reality catches up with Google.

      Cons

      Where to start, I'm so wildly disappointed by what Google has become and seems hell bent on preserving. Leaders: we do not have real leaders, we have people who in the earliest and least experienced parts of their career were lucky enough to land at Google and never left. Our CEO is not a business leader by training. Our CMO has had her job for over 20 years (red flag). Our CPO is MIA because we operate in such silos. Career: Join Google if you want to be severely under-leveled, have your experience minimized, be patronizingly led by people less qualified and less experienced than you, and have near zero prospects for upward mobility. Future: This company has no strategy. All you have to do is follow the news to see Google as a company woefully out of touch with the rest of the world. We have no clue how to do marketing, which is obvious from Bard to the graveyard of things we've killed off. I do not believe the future is bright given current leadership, and see a change unlikely until stuff hits the fans.

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