Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

4.3

90% would recommend to a friend

(1,548 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

63% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,548 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
May 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's really what it's made out to be. You work at the most relevant company in the world. You make the future. It becomes part of who you are; when you say you work here, people are excited and ask you lots of questions about it. The Paris office is awesome - you get the benefits of living in Europe with the benefits of working for an American company.

Cons

Big company. Politics. When you start it's about software. As you go up, it quickly becomes about leading teams and optimizing organizations. Which is not actually a bad thing - it's the natural next step. But I'm marking this here in "cons" because some software engineers might just want to care about the code and only the code, forever.

4.0
May 28, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High pay, liberal culture, smart coworkers

Cons

complicated business model and inter-team relations, competitive environment, legacy software codebase, much less projects to choose from in remote sites

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