Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,324 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

82% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

Google has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 48,324 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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48K reviews
5.0
Aug 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing work culture, cutting edge work, flexibility and independence, awesome food

Cons

Your growth in the company directly depends on the efforts you put in and results you produce. So always need to be on your toes and continue to work towards challenging goals.

1.0
Oct 23, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Perks. Free food and other facilities. You'll work on something that is used by millions of people. Opportunity to work with some of the best people in country.

Cons

As it has grown big, Google has become miserably stagnant when it comes to giving proper recognition to employees, during perf-cycles and promotion. They manage to suck the top brains from fresh college grads (from IITs, IISc) at a low package and yet quoting an attractive package which differs from CTC by at least 12000$ (yearly). Needless to say, these include the cost of "perks" shown at a exaggerated rate and some components which are never realized. Whereas in off-campus recruitment they make reasonably good offer (often more than double, triple the amount offered to college hires of same level) to get a candidate, even if it maybe for test-engineer position. Work is often monotonous, and rarely helps to your career growth. Even after working for years on so-called "cool" products, but that hardly sells outside google. And if you think you're going to spend your entire career in Google until retirement, it's going to be a sure-shot peril to your technical career. So, ret rid of the pride of working in the "best company" and look for a better career for yourself.

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