Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,387 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,387 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

1) Bright, motivated colleagues. Willingness to change and try new things. Low barriers to trying new methods. 2) Ave to High Total Compensation, particularly when benchmarked against competitors like msft, cisco, etc. (base+ind bonus_+ co bonus). Low base, balanced by other compensation. 3) Collaborative and at least, striving to be ethical, culture 4) Great perks, free gormet food, low cost massage, excellent heathcare, top 401k match, guest speakers

Cons

1) Work-aholics. Motivated employees driven to work long hours (65hrs+ per week) 2) Little opportunity for positional advancement, given flat corp culture 3) Poor managers. Philosophy is to hire great people that don't need mgmt. Need to be comfortable acting without much guidance. Little formal training. 4) Can be difficult for folks that like structure, or can't adapt to be fast paced, ever changing culture, ever changing managers....etc. 5) Helpful to be outgoing, networker...

4.0
Dec 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a fast-paced environment where employees have a good deal of flexibility on projects they want to work on. Everyone was friendly and welcoming. It seemed like there was a good work-life balance throughout the organization. One thing that was clear was that senior management significantly valued their employees and took every step to take care of them. For example, there were free breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. During the summer, we were taken on a beach trip to Santa Cruz. Overall, it was a fun work environment.

Cons

Google is a very engineering-driven organization. At times, it seems like there are a multitude of different projects going on with very limited business coordination.

3.0
Dec 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, stellar engineers, the ability to work on large, interesting problems. Company has large and usually positive effects on the world.

Cons

Flat organization has given way to more hierarchy and middle managers, who are often woefully inept. Company has an inability to deal effectively with low performers. Hard to effect change in a large organization. Lots of people are becoming risk averse and more concerned about personal ass-covering than making good software. "Don't be evil" is not a value shared by all at the company, especially newer hires.

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