Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,353 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,353 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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3.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting problems to work on, very nice offices, extremely smart co workers. If you're very self directed, you can learn quite a bit and have a great time, but you shouldn't expect much help from other people.

Cons

Project scheduling was pretty haphazard Inter-team communication was also pretty haphazard You were often working with people all over the world, which sounds fantastic at first until you spend DAYS in video conference meetings Inept, Overworked managers (70 or 80 direct reports for someone who had never managed anyone before was normal) distant, ineffective HR (NYC office had 1 HR person for 1000+ employees in the office and was not authorized to do anything except send problems to Mountain View)

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

LV style Free Meal. Free Shuttle. Campus environment. Salary is so so. Best 1st job out of college.

Cons

Most of the Googlers have only been working for 1 or 2 years in Google. Still very young company. High turn over after stock option exercised.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly culture, incredible access to practically all of company information, great people to work with and learn from. With thousands of users every second, almost nothing is trivial, so work tends to never be boring. The work process is very professional. Of course, just getting to build stuff on Google's awesome infrastructure (both hw and sw) might also be considered to be interesting :)

Cons

Well, my salary is not particularly high.. Some of the perks listed are just subsidized, and some are not even that. Also, there seems to be a slight trend toward money-oriented decision making, slowly eroding Google's 'Googliness' factor.

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