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      Google Software Engineer reviews

      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

      Compensation and benefits

      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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      10K reviews
      1.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      It's not what it's cracked up to be.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The reputation of the company is great, and so is the free food.

      Cons

      This is no longer a startup. You can't expect to go to Google these days and become a millionaire. As some reviewers have said, there is basically no room for advancement so it is a deadend job. They do discriminate by schools. Say if you attended Arizona State you would get paid $20k less than the same person graduating from Berkeley or Stanford. It is pretty ridiculous like that.

      3.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great experience, but not a perfect workplace

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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

      Great, but slowly gravitating toward just good.

      Software engineer
      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.

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