Google Reviews

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

Pros – The people I work with are great. From everyone that I talk to, everyone says all the free food in the world can't replace the caliber of people one works with... I totally agree. Onsite massage therapist and all the food you can eat is great but the people I work with are smart, forward thinking, and thinking about what is best for the users and company.

Cons – Very fast paced. Reorgs all the time. If you're not proactively bettering your position in the company you can find yourself "reorg'ed" out of a position. Google Offers is an internal starup so very volatile.

Advice to Senior Management – Great job

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

Former Employee – worked at Google full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Unlimited resources. Leading products. Smart energetic co-workers. Great perks.

Cons – Competitive to a fault. The review process is entirely political. There's a echo chamber. Your individual contribution is probably irrelevant to the company as a whole.

Advice to Senior Management – Change the review process to acknowledge the importance of more than just code releases.

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

Current Employee – been working at Google as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – - You can meet and work with the most talented and creative people, which is very important for your future career as well as you can learn a lot from them.

- Great Values and culture

- Very-well established company

Cons – - You work for a big company: Google, which means you mostly work for one single client. Sometimes it feels tedious a bit, because you might feel like you are always doing same things.

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 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 more than 8 years

Pros – smart people
amazing perks
strong brand that opens a lot of doors
still lots of innovation

Cons – its grown into a large company (slower movement)

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 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.

Current Employee – been working at Google full-time

Pros – The network, people, community, and the access to information.

Cons – I don't think I could share any cons.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Google full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Perks/food/offices
- Innovation
- Leader in the industry. Your design and creation will set the tone.

Cons – - Might appear fast moving company but it's a multinational bureaucracy

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

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

Pros – Amazing culture! Great energy and many opportunities.

Cons – Sometimes decisions were hard to come by due to so much consensus.

Advice to Senior Management – More focus on career development within teams would be good.

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