Google Reviews

Pros

COMPUTERS are really really fast

Cons

lots of traffic to arrive

Advice to Senior Management

keep doing what you're doing

Pros

Fast paced
Smart colleagues reduce petty frustrations you might have in other companies
Flexible (wfh opportunities)
Package focuses on work/life balance
Great in-office support - laptop problems, food requests, facilities
Supportive of (Google-based) training
International environment
Great CFO leadership

Cons

Some very pushy, self important individuals
Getting more formal and corporate in outlook, particularly London office
Very little informal game playing or fun etc, too competitive for people to take a break
Will take up all your time if you let it
Hires externally at the higher levels - a lot of unsatisfied people at the middle levels who will never rise any further
Leaves you quite untrained / unqualified for roles outside the internet ads industry - unsupportive of recognized professional qualifications outside of MBAs

Advice to Senior Management

Prepare people who don't want to be there forever
Prioritize hiring from within
Drop academic snobbery - request lower qualifications for junior jobs

Pros

We are plied with small perks like espresso and organic vegetables.

Cons

The first month was very rough for me. I was given no real introduction to the company, and had to learn by fire. The security restrictions on your personal computer and network get in the way of productivity, and are generally frustrating. I need to have a field tech come to my workstation to install software that doesn't happen to be whitelisted.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't take away sudo on linux machines. Make Noogler classes available to contractors.

Pros

good place to work with different genius people. always full of challenges.
and the working environment is good. good pay.

Cons

everyday there is different problems to solve. need good skills on problem solving

Pros

Good Package
You will have fun while working
Very friendly colleagues
Lots of opportunities to travel abroad
Lots of free goodies like free transport, meals and stock options offered

Cons

Salary is sometimes not that competitive
Promotion takes time as its a huge company now
If you are in direct sales and you love interacting with clients on an every day basis then your job role will be quite interesting! In Online sales job responsibilities are not that exciting at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Google takes good care in employing good people to manage teams.
But certain people who might not have a degree in management and they became managers because of years served in company. They need to be more effectively trained to handle human resource well. Otherwise the senior management in Google is one of the best to work with.

Pros

The people here are super cool. Everyone is so smart. Everyone is so nice. Lots of opportunity

Cons

There was nothing wrong there!

Pros

-Benefits are second to none.
-Senior leadership is out of this world (Larry, Sergey...at that level).
-The new CEO Larry is very inspirational in his new role.
-You come to work every day thinking I am so proud to be here.
-An ethical company that truly believes in it's motto, 'do no evil.'
-You just don't want to leave the company because you are so much in awe of senior leadership and the direction in which the company is headed.

Cons

-Middle management in the sales side of things needs a major revamp. Absolutely no regard for career development, work-life balance. Faulty and biased performance appraisal. Extremely non-Googley. The middle management lacks in people development skills and are too busy trying to push themselves up to bother about their reports. No recognition for rewards in the sales teams and as long as you are in the favored circle of the manager, your career is made.

-While senior leadership in MV is extremely supportive of feedback, speak out to your local leaderhsip and you ring the death knell of your career at Google.

-The sales side is turning into a nightmare with the sales HR in turn unable to turn things around or raise critical employee issues and thus resort to delivering lip service to employees. The senior leadership in MV needs to take a serious look into this.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers/HR in the operations side are way better, more humane, genuinely caring towards their reports. The sales managers and sales HR need to learn from the operations managers/HR.

People are sticking to the company because they love the company, its senior leadership (aka Larry, Sergey etc) not the middle management. This needs to be understood.

Pros

Great working experience
Obtain insights into how search actually works
Lots of resources to do many things
Fun environment

Cons

Large employee base
Hard to standout and get promoted

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to do what Google does best...Search.
Being focused on core products and services is critical

Pros

Great perks, work-life balance, little hierarchy, genuinely friendly coworkers, great place to network and meet future entrepreneurs, diverse workplace, LGBT friendly, open culture, smart coworkers.

Cons

As a contractor there is a lack of transparency about the opportunity for conversion to permanent roles. Also, many young colleagues complain that no other company recruits so many bright people to then put them in very low level jobs with remedial tasks.

Pros

it teaches you a lot..great place and it teaches you a lot of new things and all..excellent place...cant get better

Cons

Very difficult to work with all the geniuses around you...algorithms have to be on your fingertips...lots of competition

Advice to Senior Management

it teaches you a lot..great place and it teaches you a lot of new things and all..excellent places...loved it