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      4.4

      88% would recommend to a friend

      (9,663 total reviews)
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      Sundar Pichai

      83% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.5

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      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.3

      Career opportunities

      4.0

      Senior management

      Software Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 9,663 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      5.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Still one of the best places to work at.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Working at Google, you have really smart co-workers. In the beginning it struck me that people quickly understood my ideas, something I wasn't used to from college. Another great advantage at Google is that it is very engineering driven. Generally, engineers are given enough of freedom to work on what they consider to be most important. The role of product managers is to help engineers figure out what that is and to help in communications, but ultimately engineers are making the decision. Being an engineer, I very much enjoy this and I think it makes a lot of sense given that engineers understand the technologies involved best.

      Cons

      A lot of the interesting problems and challenges have already been solved. In particular as a junior software engineer, you'll work on not so exciting tasks. Also, due to the fast growth of the company, the impact an individual makes is not as big as it used to be.

      4.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Great place, but declining morale an issue

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      The food is, in general, great, and the number of cafeteria options is ridiculous. There's always something interesting going on--it is a treat to see all of the invited authors and politicians that drop by and give talks. As an engineer it is relatively easy to switch projects, at least if you have a manager who is on your side. There are many smart people at Google, and you will learn a lot from them. In general, the engineers at Google are quite nice and easy to work with. You meet the occasional bad apple, though. It is quite gratifying to learn the inner-workings of products used the world over.

      Cons

      As the company has grown bigger, it has become more siloed--groups are segregated off into their own buildings, and inter-group communication lessens. As a result, the diversity of the people I interact with regularly has lessened by the year. The promotion process can seem arbitrary--a secret committee reviews your information and makes a decision. You receive very little feedback about the process and have no opportunity to present your case to the people who make the decision (other than by writing a "self-assessment" before the fact). Recently there seem to have been an increasing number of cutbacks in the name of reducing company expenditures, I suspect mostly due to the fact that company growth has exceeded revenue growth in recent years. The company has grown more faceless and bureaucratic as it has gotten bigger. It is easier to feel like a cog in a machine now than it was in the past. Many projects seem overstaffed due to the rapid growth of the company.

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