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
4.0
Jan 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing tech, probably the only place you can reliably not deal with unreplicated infra. Push back on engineering is legit and regularly practiced almost to a fault. Worked with some of the smartest people on Earth, the smartest ive ever met. Just ridiculously huge scale, sre culture is strong if you are in the right places

Cons

It may be a great one but it is a big company now. That bothers some. Big company means very different experiences depending on where you work. Don't take any one review as gospel. Lots of politics and some in fighting, successful leaders know how to manipulate people but not in a bad way,.

4.0
Jul 25, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Perks and benefits galore. Google has incredible health plans, retirement plans, and paternity leave. Coworkers are extremely bright. Lots of fun facilities. I prefer the flat corporate structure.

Cons

Google has an enormous codebase. Lots of jobs are just doing maintenance to keep your service up with the many internal monolithic tools that are constantly being deprecated. Solutions tend to be overwrought in order to "demonstrate complexity" for promotion committees. So much competition when you are basically a cog can be discouraging. Many coworkers work in evenings and weekends. There is no 20% time. It is really difficult to get promoted when there are very few open slots.

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