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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,518 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,518 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      49K reviews
      1.0
      May 27, 2012

      Too big, full of politics!

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good brand, great products, good compensation, still innovating though at a lesser pace than 3 years back. Like the fact that Google is always willing to take big risks and make big bets.

      Cons

      Since Larry became CEO, things have changed. Things have become more and more top-down and even the SVPs have assumed "dictatorial" role. Starting anything new requires approval, distributed offices are treated like filth.

      3.0
      May 26, 2012

      Great company, your mileage will vary

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      TGIF - super exciting stuff going on in the company that you have an inside look at every week. Transparency at the level of the executives. (Note - transparency within your own group depends entirely on your manager/director, and may be completely counter to Google's overall level of transparency) CEO - Larry Page back at the helm has been awesome for the company Smart people, some really good at what they do

      Cons

      High variance in manager competence, including some managers whose only 'skill' appears to have been being lucky enough to join pre-IPO. From my experience - despite massive amounts of 'data', in the form of Googlegeist, employees reaching out to HR to express concerns, and almost universal team dissatisfaction, some really bad managers are simply not dealt with. Really bloated management structure outside of Eng, which means that many people are doing work that is below their level of skill, simply because there are so many layers of management above them. Think the company would actually benefit from a higher turnover rate. Bias against any sort of standardization, even though at the current size of the company, some standardization is needed.

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