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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (5,727 total reviews)
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      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

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      2.0
      Oct 2, 2012

      It's not you're older brother's Google anymore

      Software engineer iv
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      Pros

      Good Compensation and Benefits. Most peers were a pleasure to work with.

      Cons

      Flexibility and openness have taken a nose dive as the company became larger and more compartmentalized. No one wants you to work on "the world's most interesting problems" no matter what their employment ads say. 20% time has become a myth. No one wants you working on their projects, or on your own.

      5.0
      Sep 18, 2012

      Dream company

      Systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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

      Great company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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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