Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,598 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,598 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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49K reviews
1.0
Oct 6, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Food Lots of primary colored campuses McKinsey folks around campus ignore all they learned to lead Google (great for ineffective leaders, bad for those that stand for change) PR team is a well oiled machine Google is in its own reality, outside opinions that don't agree are ignored / rebuffed

Cons

Ex mcKinsey folks become sheep like here and forget that their insights could be used to affect change at a Recruiting function that is lackluster (take them out of The gplex) they couldnt recruit top talent. Several recruiting leaders from the UK and seem to lack basic strategy skills but excel at their own PR Recruiting is a protracted process that doesn't need to be Hiring Managers take mediocre results and lack ability to sniff good recruiting talent from folks that talk a good game Recruiters cow tow to a team of paper pushers that review Packets to the detriment of great candidates and candidate experience

5.0
Oct 5, 2012

Amazing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

People, culture, great benefits, constant learning and fast progressions.

Cons

Not many opportunities except in headquarter offices.

5.0
Oct 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, driven colleagues, near limitless resources, ideal work environment, excellent work/life balance, international work opportunities, opportunities for growth (more intellectual than career)

Cons

The vast majority of the people who made Google what it is today have move on and in many cases have been replaced by cookie-cutter MBA types, ex Microsoft employees and management consultants. This combined with Google's massive growth (18k employees in Mountain View alone) has made it less of the agile innovator it once was but rather a techno-advertising behemoth.

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