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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,462 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,462 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 IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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      48K reviews
      5.0
      Sep 11, 2008

      Google is Great

      Software engineer iii
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      Pros

      Perks are phenomenal! Projects are extremely high impact. The company trusts engineers to "do the right thing" and prefers to give engineers information so they can make decisions instead of hording information to make the decisions themselves. Engineers get all the best tools (Big monitors, lots of computing resources) and don't have much red-tape getting normal stuff done.

      Cons

      Career progress into management is a little tough, as there's no "Supervisor" role, and the Managers usually have >50 people reporting to them. It can be done, but it's easier to stay in the engineer track.

      4.0
      Sep 6, 2008

      Great place to start your career

      Associate, online sales & operations
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      Pros

      It was a great place to be working for straight out of college. When you start work there they really take the time to make sure that you're trained properly so that you don't feel like a fish out of water like at other companies. Benefits can't be beat. Besides the free lunches, fantastic 401k, etc, you get large bonuses fairly often. Co-workers were intelligent and great to work with for the most part. I also had a great relationship with my manager and thought I was treated fairly, but it can vary widely at Google. All in all, there's few better places to start off for a young college grad.

      Cons

      As a non-engineer, your starting pay is pretty low. It's made up through bonuses and other compensation methods, but when I went to another company, it was harder to negotiate a higher pay due to my low base pay at Google. It's also starting to become a big company, so you have layers of middle management who are just a couple of years out of college and don't have the experience to manage people well. Most were great workers, but many don't understand that there's a large difference between doing your own work well and making sure that others do their work well through your guidance.

      4.0
      Aug 17, 2008

      Google is a great place to work.

      Software engineer iii
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      Pros

      The quality of coworkers is pretty high; nearly everyone is pretty bright and fairly creative. The company is very flexible with its employees -- work matters more than hours and location. There are a number of interesting classes of problems to work on that are difficult to find elsewhere [large scale distributed systems, storage infrastructure, etc]. The potential impact of your work is huge.

      Cons

      There's a culture of working long hours. The company is becoming larger and larger, which results in more processes and less creativity.

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