Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,588 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 48,588 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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5.0
Sep 18, 2012

Dream company

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Pros

awesome benefits, great salary, options, everyone's nice, intellectual, free food, very casual

Cons

Being such a world renown company, each dept is very restrictive of allowing external access. It's a bit difficult to get cross-departmental collaboration in general.

5.0
Sep 18, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Great work-life balance No two roles are the same, there's so much flexibility in creating the role you want Senior managers are awesome, really open and receptive to ideas

Cons

Hard to maintain their unique culture as the company grows bigger

5.0
Sep 18, 2012

Great company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Google offer an amazing work environment, with unbelievable perks. People around you are very smart Whatever you do in Google, you are probably working on (or supporting) an innovative product and having a quite large impact. Things move at a very fast pace. The speed is really one of a startup. Organized chaos is how I should describe Google. A chaos that magically works It is a relatively flat organization. While there is a well defined chain of command in every function, the individual are still empowered to work cross-functionally and take initiative.

Cons

It is getting a little bit too political in Google, which I guess is only natural for 40K company. PMs tend to take a bit too much credit for everything around, Engineering are very isolated (maybe by design) from operation/monetization aspects. Other functions are secondary to PM and Engineering in almost every aspect. Vision is increasingly a top-down thing with less and less grass root initiatives .......... working on your 20% these days mean your bonus will probably disappear because you need your manager sign-off, which likely has a different agenda, and his own 20%

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