Google Software Developer reviews

4.4

88% would recommend to a friend

(9,662 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

83% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Google with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 9,662 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting problems to work on, very nice offices, extremely smart co workers. If you're very self directed, you can learn quite a bit and have a great time, but you shouldn't expect much help from other people.

Cons

Project scheduling was pretty haphazard Inter-team communication was also pretty haphazard You were often working with people all over the world, which sounds fantastic at first until you spend DAYS in video conference meetings Inept, Overworked managers (70 or 80 direct reports for someone who had never managed anyone before was normal) distant, ineffective HR (NYC office had 1 HR person for 1000+ employees in the office and was not authorized to do anything except send problems to Mountain View)

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very friendly culture, incredible access to practically all of company information, great people to work with and learn from. With thousands of users every second, almost nothing is trivial, so work tends to never be boring. The work process is very professional. Of course, just getting to build stuff on Google's awesome infrastructure (both hw and sw) might also be considered to be interesting :)

Cons

Well, my salary is not particularly high.. Some of the perks listed are just subsidized, and some are not even that. Also, there seems to be a slight trend toward money-oriented decision making, slowly eroding Google's 'Googliness' factor.

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Google is a very nice company to work for. The company is very transparent about its policies and directions, and keeps every one up-to-date of latest development. People have strong ownership of things they do. And I feel that compensation is really good. The bonus is really generous (about 30% of your salary), and the benefits are excellent.

Cons

Benefits are excellent, but I think Microsoft's medical coverage is better, and Microsoft matches charitable donation up to 12,000 per year but Google only matches up to 3,000.

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