Google Software Developer reviews

4.4

89% would recommend to a friend

(9,649 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 9,649 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good. Shuttle transportation can be useful for many people. Occasionally there are interesting talks (but conference rooms are often way too tiny.)

Cons

The interviews are really bad for the applicant: you learn nothing from what you will be doing and are interviewed only by people from completely different areas of expertise than yours. If you decide to come here, expect to have 5-6 layers of management above you. Unless your are a big shot or manage to get a strong ally, you often get the promise of leading some significant project, only to be exchanged without notice with more "experienced" people. Only a minority of engineers get to do the interesting stuff: Google+, Knowledge Graph, etc. If you are part of the other 99%, things are less exciting and the lower your rank is, the less freedom you have.

5.0
Jul 22, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The job offers the rare opportunity to make big impact to life of millions of people. I work with extremely smart people and everyone is excited to come to work everyday. With all different kinds of project in Google, I can alway find something that interests me.

Cons

Google is a big company, so it's different from startup company. There will be process built that you need to follow and organization can be hierarchical. But it's nature of a big company. Still, there are some projects and teams in Google that act like startup.

4.0
Jul 20, 2013

Mostly good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The usual: compensation, interesting projects, good food, company cares about employees ... (see below) ...

Cons

... as long as productivity is there. Work life balance is possible, but you won't get promoted if you work "only" 40 hours a week.

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