Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,391 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 48,391 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Free Food !!! Great people. It feels like staying in college if you are a bottom employee (foosball tournament, PS3, Wii...). You can learn so much from the company and others because everybody is talented. Very fast moving environment. It is a meritocracy, if you are good, you will be recognized and remunerated. You will work in the most international environment possible with colleagues from all around the globe.

Cons

You will not have any career opportunities within the company. The task for the new graduates are pretty boring on the long term. It is almost impossible to move from an office to another, so don't expect to come back to your country if you are an expatriate. You will only meet graduates from the best schools because Google only hire in some colleges, no real background diversity.

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are pretty fantastic, as are the perks -- food, HR really does have innovative ways of taking care of you, transportation options. Google has been willing to open up offices where its people want to be, which has been great. There is a lot of opportunity to travel, and communicate your vision to a wider audience. I appreciate some of the hard work that has gone into building the culture and Google tries hard to maintain that. There is a sense of legacy and that great things are yet to come. This is not something that is easily sustained, yet there is so much effort here, that it just might work.

Cons

Certainly it's a big company. It tries hard to not be. It tries to rekindle some of the old things that made it unique, but it seems like a lost cause for the most part. There is much less opportunity to shoot to the top. There is less and less exposure to people outside your organization and too far above your management chain. There is a lot of work to be done, and Google is pretty cheap about the way that work gets accomplished. It puts added burden on many people including engineers and lower level managers. Getting actual things accomplished and seeing how it fits into the company goals has been hard.

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