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4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,603 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 48,603 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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2.0
Feb 23, 2024

Leader-led doom loop

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Pros

The majority of people are quite literally coasting and mailing it in, so you rarely work 8 hours a day unless you're on one of the few teams failing upwards (i.e. anyone touching Gemini).

Cons

Absolutely terrible leadership with no vision or ambition, starting with Sundar and permeating all the way down to self-perservation-minded managers.

2.0
Feb 15, 2024
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Pros

I have only great things to say about Google until January 2023. It was until then a place most employees would trust the company, trust each other and, as a consequence, work really really hard to go great things. January 2023 was the end of it.

Cons

The big wave of layoffs in 2023, and the long succession of area specific "role terminations" (hard to track how many thousands were let go) quickly eroded the trust and the commitment employees had. 2023 was a year of fear and with that, the worse of survival-driven behaviors. People focusing on protecting themselves (or exposing others) to keep their jobs. The Google I was hired >15 years ago is no more.

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