Google Senior Staff Software Engineer/Manager reviews

4.3

95% would recommend to a friend

(280 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

58% approve of CEO

77% positive business outlook

Senior Staff Software Engineer/Manager employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 280 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Staff Software Engineer/Manager professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Staff Software Engineer/Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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280 reviews
5.0
Dec 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can make a really big impact on the world working at google. There's an amazing diversity of projects, the resources available to the company are basically unequaled, and leadership is genuinely trying to do things that make the world a better place.

Cons

Google is severely lacking in gender, racial, and age diversity. It can also be easy to let Google consume your life out of work (i.e. social life); for some, though, that may not be a con. The transition to Larry Page as CEO was rocky, but I think we've come out ok, and employees are generally coming to trust Larry's leadership. Few regret Vic Gundotra's departure.

5.0
Oct 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

#1 work with the most talented, driven, amazing, and nice people who will make you better #2 work on really interesting products that benefit millions of people #3 egalitarian culture, meritocracy; the value of the idea is what matters, not the status of the person promoting it #4 salary, benefits, perks pretty impossible to beat

Cons

#1 performance matters, you will have to work hard, work smart, and grow #2 it can be very demanding and ask a lot of you, require long hours sometimes

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