Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,436 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 48,436 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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48K reviews
3.0
Feb 10, 2024

Glory Days Long Gone

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Pros

- Benefits/Perks (while they last) - Compensation (they aim for top 10% so there are definitely other options)

Cons

- Run by ex-McKinsey and 2008 financial crisis big-bank veterans - The worst treatment of employees I have ever seen during their layoffs. Cutting off corp access abruptly, not disclosing to teams and employees who was let go from their teams. In many cases, blatantly lying to employees when justifying these actions - Employees on visas were severely mistreated and disadvantaged on their ability to collect severance during "extended notice layoffs" - Perks are being constantly removed and teams/projects cut - Management seemingly has 0 control of their organizations - Management of entire product areas are upward-failing and seemingly have no passion for their organizations. They lead organizations the size of normal companies and treat it like just a line item on a resume - Once a leader in diversity/inclusion they have proven that they do not care about these efforts at all since they were the first thing on the chopping block. Even their diverse employees that are on visas were especially mistreated at the first sign of a market down turn - Severely senior-skewing engineering. You will likely have no opportunities for career advancement

2.0
Jun 11, 2018

Account Manager

Recommend
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Pros

benefits: free breakfast, lunch, gym + classes, dogs in the office, work from home or other offices, foot in the door to get Google on your resume.

Cons

this job is absolutely soul-crushing. by a year in the benefits don't matter anymore. this is the worst job that exists at Google. absolutely no work/life balance. the targets are becoming outrageous, many people cry in private, there seems to be little hope of ever getting promoted, management is so beyond out of touch with the day-to-day grind of this brutal job.

5.0
Jun 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Incredible offices Outstanding benefits Good salary Fantastic colleagues and culture Best company you could have on your resume Lost of internal movement. After a year you can apply to pretty much any other role internally and globally I would recommend working for Google to anyone. If you get a job offer you should accept it

Cons

Career progression is difficult and slow More and more politics and bureaucracy Limited space for innovation Difficult to move from sales to engineer Technical skills in sales won't get you far Make sure you are in a role that is critical for the organisation you work for

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