Does Google pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Google employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Google. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Google?

87% of Google employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Google 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.3 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Google?

Software Engineer (10483) , Senior Software Engineer (1601) , Intern (1230) , Software Developer (1218) , Account Manager (844) , Product Manager (795) , Software Development Engineer (SDE) (767) , Analyst (754) , Program Manager (624) , Project Manager (609) , SWE Intern (543) , Data Scientist (514) , Internship (500) , Software Engineer(Internship) (496) , Manager (484)

What are the pros of working at Google according to real employee reviews?

"My teammates were really great people and did a lot to help me get up and running."" ((in 4255 reviews)); "great benefits and I do believe they build some of the best products out there." ((in 3686 reviews)); "It was a great environment and culture that I looked forward to going to every day." ((in 3450 reviews)); "In those positions you can have a good work/life balance and just use all the benefits" ((in 2653 reviews)); "the pay is good and the fellow engineers are very smart" ((in 2298 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Google according to real employee reviews?

"Long hours and lots to learn if you are not a learner it might not be the best place" ((in 814 reviews)); "Bad management and quite bureaucratic" ((in 736 reviews)); "recent layoffs and company culure" ((in 565 reviews)); "People are forced out by bad managers via bad annual reviews and PIP program to get there friends in there." ((in 563 reviews)); "Too much work and politics" ((in 297 reviews))

What are employees saying about Google layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Google layoffs and their outlook for job security at Google in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Google locations?

München , Hamburg , Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Köln , Lustadt , Hannover , Heilbronn , Bochum , Frankenthal (Pfalz)

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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,436 total reviews)

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 48,436 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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4.0

Oct 18, 2010

Great place to work, stay out of Ops

Corporate operations engineer

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Pros

- Peers are sheer geniuses in their realm, very low amount of low performers - Fun - Great Start for college grads - pace is fast, learning is fast - AWESOME annual bonus

Cons

- Middle management is very detached from work - Everything is looked from a efficiency standpoint, and sometimes that cannot be done - Indication (in ops groups) that decision is coming from the top down rather than bottom up as was tradition

3.0

Oct 16, 2010

Software Engineer

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Easy work, lots of random cool projects to work on. Get to multitask on tons of projects at the same time. Good location.

Cons

Too few opportunities. Engineers can be extremely weird here. I would recommend against this job for another tech company. Direction is vague and erratic.

4.0

Oct 14, 2010

n/a

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Google is a good place to work for not because of all the talented people around you, but also the free culture.

Cons

The learning curve for a particular technology could be high since there are so many technologies are used here at Google.

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