Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,616 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 48,616 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
Apr 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great salary, benefits and equity - Amenities are wonderful, when you can use them - Great people, your peers are truly folks that care - Visibility, I knew what was happening for Google as a company through frequent e-mails from our CEO. - Ability to grow many skillsets that are transferrable outside of Google.

Cons

- Hard to get work accomplished cross functionally, misaligned OKRs - Too many priorities make it confusing for your Googlers to truly understand what is important (this would be a few things not 10 + smaller ones). This is burning your team out. - Develop your leaders, teach skillsets that help them to be even more successful in their current role and in developing their teams - When talking about stress management and mindfulness, build it into your work not just in an even tone a year. - Create more vision for your organization, not just the revenue goals but the purpose of the team and where we are going in a way that aligns to the human impact not just the revenue impact

3.0
Mar 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits and financial stability and growth I enjoyed over my years at Google helped me avoid so much financial anxiety faced by my peers, and I know how lucky I was to have them.

Cons

The culture is in rapid decline. There is rampant use of corporate speak, and Googlers who can't read between the lines effectively suffer constant performance anxiety. There is a lot of talk about roles having clear objectives that prevent bias, but in practice there is plenty of subjectivity, and the Googlers that succeed are those that devote their energies to internal upward management. You are told constantly that it's a different sort of company - and you are expected to agree - in spite of so much evidence to the contrary.

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