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      Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

      4.3

      90% would recommend to a friend

      (1,548 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      63% approve of CEO

      79% positive business outlook

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      Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,548 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      4.0
      Aug 29, 2015

      Narrow focus, but on interesting scale

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Colleagues are consistently capable and dedicated. Perks are of course good. Reasonably open culture. Excellent tools. Senior-level management appears to genuinely care about companies.

      Cons

      It's a large company, so you can expect to work on a relatively narrow problem. While office politics isn't bad, it does occasionally frustrate, with projects getting moved around without consultation of rank-and-file employees.

      4.0
      Aug 14, 2015

      Great company. Bad location.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Work with great people Incredible scope and impact Good benefits (base salary, stocks, healthcare, etc) Food and amenities on campus Great open culture. Founders are holding Q&A every week.

      Cons

      It's a big company and to have a big impact you need to apply some effort. Promotion process is - you basically PR and promote yourself (again, some effort). Nobody will promote you and you need to work on it yourself - collecting success stories and writing an essay why you should be promoted. Crowded office. A lot of people are being hired for MTV, CA office. High compensation is offset by huge rent or real estate prices. Or choose long commute. Healthcare benefits are getting worse and worse (because company is unwilling to pay for "Cadillac" tax)

      5.0
      Jul 30, 2015

      Great Company

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pretty much all your colleagues are really good. There are lots of interesting projects. The company is very open internally. Benefits are great: food, shuttle, and more... Company culture is great.

      Cons

      -company is really big now, one person's impact is definitely small. -much harder to launch new projects now, with so many processes required by law, or by company.

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