Google reviews

4.4

87% would recommend to a friend

(48,391 total reviews)
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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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Apr 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Learning a new platform and Google-specific tools Developing great industry relationships and the ability to present to a group. Your peers are great, smart and usually nice people. You'll learn a lot about cloud sales. Google has a great brand.

Cons

You have one main manager and a lot of dotted lined stakeholders for your role and they don't get along. The promotion cycle is impossible, you need buy-in from many levels of leadership who dont' know your work. You'll never up-level unless you're severely underpaid. You're not technical and success is a popularity contest. There are a lot of new, very senior managers who don't know what they're doing. The organization changes constantly and you might be stuck working on things you dont want to. You have to sell the Google-way of doing things.

4.0
Nov 17, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Google in general is incredible - great benefits and I do believe they build some of the best products out there.

Cons

Google's Recruiting organization, however, is in need of major changes. Too many redundant processes and a bad overall structure.

4.0
Sep 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's Google! It really is fantastic. Perks, benefits, and people are all excellent! Super smart and capable people in recruiting that are being massively under-utilized. If you have a good manager who advocates for your work, you'll be fine.

Cons

Politics, especially around promotion. Popularity and project work is more valued than real performance. As a result, you have recruiters who do a lot of projects, evangelize their work, and "teach to the test" re: personal metrics, but they do not provide an authentic experience to candidates and clients. But because they're more visible, they get rewarded. And if your boss's boss's boss barely knows who you are, forget it. Promotion is a game and you have to know the right people. Newer employees are wildly under-leveled. As a result you have 32-year-old new employees who are at a lower level than 26-year-olds who have been with Google for a few years. It's so strange, and I've never seen anything like it. Tracking systems are poor. Leadership's been here forever, so not a lot of innovative thinking or perspective. Almost all of senior leadership in Staffing is Google-grown, so it's a massive echo chamber.

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