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      4.4

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (48,420 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Compensation and benefits

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,420 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
      4.0
      Sep 7, 2008

      Best company I've worked at that hasn't gone under.

      Technical writer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The projects are interesting. There are interesting data sets to explore. There are cool tools to use, along with infrastructure for puttnig together new tools. The people are great--when you meet a "dud" at Google, it tends to stick in your memory since the duds are so rare. It's satisfying to work on a service that's helped so many people. The food is great; chefs are treated like rock stars and rightly so. The company has income; this is a pleasant change after working at other software development companies.

      Cons

      The bottom-up management style means that some good ideas with uncharismatic boosters get buried.

      5.0
      Aug 21, 2008

      Good place, could be better

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's a great place to work as a programmer. The tasks we work on are mostly interesting and challenging, and the breadth at which your work will be applied is nearly unparalleled, certainly in the online business. The people are fun and smart.

      Cons

      The people are very smart. If you're used to being a hot shot, you may not be any more. If you're looking for the startup atmosphere, well, don't, because it's gone. You will still have more autonomy than a lot of other companies, but you will not have complete control over the project you work on.

      5.0
      Aug 12, 2008

      Engineer

      Software engineer iii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      the benefits, especially the food and fluid hours, are great. so is the fact that everyone around you is incredibly smart.

      Cons

      i think google is expanding too quickly, and that they are letting in too many people who don't meet the standards. for example, i knew an employee who claimed that they didn't have any code to show for the past several months of work because their computer's hard drives crash, yet everyone knows that no one stores code on their own computer... there are version control repositories.additionally, i know great people who have not been hired for random reasons. such as failing an interview which required coding in C over the phone...

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