Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,624 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 48,624 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
3.0
Jan 25, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great co-workers - Competitive pay - Few places let you work on systems of the same scale

Cons

- Adaptability is good, but it can be taken too far into thrashing priorities - Not uncommon to stumble into projects seeking to solve very similar problems, but territory politics often prevent the possibility to combine forces into a joint team - Culture has become busted - main negative used to be the politics and heavy overhead of the promo process that encouraged people to try and make promo-hungry folks push to land on the highest priority projects but, as the same time they theoretically tried to solve that problem with perf changes, the exec team has made it worse by creating a "make sure you're working on the most visible/top projects in your org if you want to avoid layoffs" vibe

2.0
Sep 22, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Relatively good salary and company-wide benefits. Although not exceptional any more. 2. Good job stability so far. 3. Good work/life balance.

Cons

1. Authoritarian low-level management. Management in Google is an Asian, Chinese-style. Your leads - not even managers, leads - have complete power over you, but no accountability. You are not working with them - you can only obey them. 2. No respect to engineering work. When I told my new manager that I prefer more engineering type work, she promptly suggested I should leave the company. They need facilitators. 3. No diversity. Google is dominated by Chinese now. Our team of 13 hired 5 people - all Chinese. Now we have only 3 non-Chinese members out of 18 people. Probably, the issue #1 is stemming out of there.

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