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
4.0
Jul 19, 2012
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Pros

You are working with some of the smartest, most cultured people you will ever meet. The lessons you learn from co-workers is invaluable.

Cons

They pay really smart people to do so-so jobs at an entry level. This can be frustrating and the path to more meaningful work is often ambiguous.

1.0
Jul 16, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Google is an amazing company. Innovative, passionate, insisting and investing to stay young, and continuously trying to improve

Cons

Google sucks when it comes to bringing on board new talent with a strong and accomplished caliber and assisting its integration into the operations. Instead of making the younger and less experienced work-force absorb the experience and Know-How, Google embraced a weak and overly flat environment which allows the least experienced ones set the tone and fight off external Know-How and experience. That's not really a company that wants to change but rather a company that it suffers from massive turn-over in sales and business operations and instead of fighting it off with a confident infusion of experience operations leader, it created an overly flat and 'fuzzy' environment, where everyone is obsessed with trying to please others and be sweet on the expense of doing the right thing.

5.0
May 24, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing, smart, fun, and quirky colleagues Great brand name on your resume Open and transparent management The food, of course

Cons

Google is becoming more hierarchical. You can move up through the ranks, but if you start at entry-level, it will take you 15+ years to get to senior management. Use it as a stepping stone to another job outside the company or move laterally and gain experience in different roles

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