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      4.5

      89% would recommend to a friend

      (137 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      79% approve of CEO

      94% positive business outlook

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      4.6

      Compensation and benefits

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      Site Reliability Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 137 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Site Reliability Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Site Reliability Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      137 reviews
      3.0
      May 16, 2025

      Good work if you can keep it

      Senior site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Work with smart people. * Free food * Pittsburgh office has great site culture.

      Cons

      * Experience varies wildly by PA * A bit of cultural friction if you've ever personally had to live paycheck to paycheck * Very little mobility (few and narrow windows of opportunity) if you're unable to relocate to a different site. This has consequences if you have family and/or outside responsibilities.

      1.0
      Apr 14, 2025

      Adversarial, combative intra-organizational dysfunction

      Site reliability engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay is good, benefits are almost as good as Microsoft, but have been cut in recent years. Advancement up to L5 is fairly straightforward, although actual advancement is dependent on your team's ability to secure work that is viewed as impactful, and of your management's ability to represent you.

      Cons

      Particularly in Cloud, there are many layers of dysfunctional management that are forever locked in combat with each other to build their own empires within Google. Work priorities change frequently and drastically. SREs are increasingly taking on more operational toil and no priority is given to fixing systemic causes of toil or issues. All decisions below director level are made based on how much impact can be demonstrated within a myopic performance evaluation system. Work-life balance is explicitly no longer a concern.

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