Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,425 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 48,425 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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48K reviews
5.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to work on some of the biggest clusters in the world on some very hard and interesting problems. The people are generally above average and you always have to work to make sure you're doing better. For the most part its a very strong meritocracy.

Cons

You might not get assigned to the groups doing the really cool things. It must be very frustrating to want to do e.g. large scale graph algorithms (think maps) and be stuck doing hr programming or javascript. Though after 18 months you can move to any team you want if they need engineers (and you're performing). The infrastructure is getting complex enough that there is a huge ramp up time. While that means that it takes a while to launch a project for the first time, if you know what you're doing you can launch a very scalable project quickly.

2.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has name recognition. Also, in engineering at least, you learn a lot about best practices. Most Googlers are pleasant and competent.

Cons

The founders often change their minds, causing teams to scramble. They don't seem to care about the damage they cause as a result.

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