Google Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for less than a year

Pros – Creative team, flexible work arrangements, encouraged to think outside of the box

Cons – Is there Work Life balance?

Advice to Senior Management – How are you attracting & retaining new talent?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - very international team
- nice office with good benefits (free food and lunch, gym)

Cons – - very high volume of work
- very political;
- talended people are not rewarded;
- no careers opportunities
- no life/balance (you need to go out every week to be promoted)

Advice to Senior Management – - be human and fair

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Google as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - Great Culture
- Good Pay
- Amazing People
- Many Learning Experiences
- Real Responsibility
- Free Food

Cons – - A lot to learn in 12 weeks

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for more than a year

Pros – Incredibly talented teammates, great camaraderie and passion to excel. Fantastic work environment (food, massages, games, etc.). Powerful products.

Cons – Not for those who aren't willing to give it 110% and work hard for it. Work-life balance isn't impossible, but you have to be extremely efficient and effective in order to achieve some degree of balance.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for more than a year

Pros – Comfortable office spaces built with humans in mind. Lots of freedom in choosing what to work on. Projects with global impact. Generous budgeting. Opportunities to travel. Managers that know the tech side of the projects.

Cons – With all the smart people around it's not that easy to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for more than a year

Pros – Freedom to work and motivate one self. There is no micro-managing and you're given the freedom to work the way you want as long as it drives results. They also understand the importance of life balance and have helped me instill balance in my life.

Cons – I really can't think of anything. There may be times where you feel the work isn't right for you, but it's big enough that you're able to move to a project and location that suits you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google

Pros – it is number one company!!!

Cons – contracting is not the greatest

Advice to Senior Management – to get more contractors to FTE

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for less than a year

Pros – In order of importance:

1. A strong culture of creativity, innovation and avoiding unnecessary hierarchy, red tape and inertia.

2. Intellectually stimulating work. Even projects that sound boring at first become interesting when dealing with the challenges of doing them at Google scale.

3. Great perks. These make working at Google more fun, but also improve the culture. Free, really good food encourages teams to get away from their desks and eat together instead of just eating a boring, practical lunch at their desks. Various events such as ski trips are clearly designed to encourage people from different parts of the company to get to know each other. Tech talks are designed to create a culture of always learning instead of stagnating and becoming too settled in a small niche.

Cons – 1. It's a big, established company. It's easy to feel like you're just a cog and will never have a big impact in it.

2. There's no well-defined career path, which doesn't bother me personally but might bother people with different personalities.

3. Language choice for performance critical code mostly limited to C++ or Java.

Advice to Senior Management – Mostly, keep up the good work. It would be nice if people working on back-end/infrastructure projects could see their impact more easily.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time for less than a year

Pros – Freedom to pursue self-identified projects, supportive and competent co-workers, and., of course, lots of free food.

Cons – More challenging to advance outside of headquarters.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time

Pros – Name recognition, excellent benefits, develop tech skills, internal mobility, additional responsibility, feeling of importance and challenge.

Cons – Large company, can seem bureaucratic.