google.csv

pg_num,url,pros,cons
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"* If you're a software engineer, you're among the kings of the hill at Google. It's an engineer-driven company without a doubt (that *is* changing, but it's still very engineer-focused).","* It *is* becoming larger, and with it comes growing pains: bureaucracy, slow to respond to market threats, bloated teams, cross-divisional tension (though nothing remotely approaching that of Microsoft's internal tension)."
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"1) Food, food, food. 15+ cafes on main campus (MTV) alone. Mini-kitchens, snacks, drinks, free breakfast/lunch/dinner, all day, errr'day.","1) Work/life balance. What balance? All those perks and benefits are an illusion. They keep you at work and they help you to be more productive. I've never met anybody at Google who actually time off on weekends or on vacations. You may not hear management say, ""You have to work on weekends/vacations"" but, they set the culture by doing so - and it inevitably trickles down. I don't know if Google inadvertently hires t… Show More"
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,You can't find a more well-regarded company that actually deserves the hype it gets.,I live in SF so the commute can take between 1.5 hours to 1.75 hours each way on the shuttle - sometimes 2 hours each way on a busy day or rainy day. That means being on the bus for 3-4 hours PER DAY. It's a wired bus though which means you can work on the way to Mountain View. But it can feel brutal.
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"- You drive yourself here. If you want to grow, you have to seek out opportunities and prove that your worth. This keeps you motivated.","- Google is a big company. So there are going to be winners and losers when it comes to career growth. Due to the high hiring bar, most people who don't win are smart people as well and their experience sours. This place is optimized to avoid false positives in every step and false negatives are inevitable. At least when you get promoted, you can feel good that you have truly done something."
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"Teamwork, always someone who can help, competitive, fun environment, free food, intelligent colleagues everywhere",not family-friendly now that I have kids - I don't wan to spend time playing ping pong and taking advantage of free fun events. I want to get home with my kids.
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"Great culture, smart, motivated employees","Can be cloistered, ivory tower"
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,The best company I have been to! Learnt a lot and I love the working environment.,Very big company. Hard to be visible and remember people that you have worked with.
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"Really intelligent people to work with, great infrastructure and tools, focus on excellence.",Traffic into work can be discouraging.
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,"Incredibly smart coworkers, best tools I've ever used, silly offices, free food, one project can affect millions of people and dollars.","Imposter syndrome. For me, long commute. Twenty percent time is hard to make time for. The delicious food will make you fat."
1,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P1.htm,Seemingly unlimited resources; work with top/diverse talent from across the globe; amazing perks from food to testing of prototype consumer technologies.,Extremely competitive; take home pay is not as high as non-Googlers assume it is; many poorly socialized individuals around.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,Everyone is vibrant and high-energy. Truly a fun place to get your nerd on. Oh and we do work sometimes. The campus is huge and contains many perks such as a gym and cafeteria.,The projects are fast paced so be prepared. We work nonstop although it's not always a serious environment. During breaks we tend to avoid talking about work because we are always so busy with it.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,Smart people who are passionate about their job.,Tons of bureaucracy. Promotions are made unnecessarily difficult.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,There a huge diversity of work ranging from defending independent journalism worldwide (Google Project Shield).,"The company is becoming bigger and bigger each year, which brings on its own problems."
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,"Super smart people, engineering culture.",Not too many career advance opportunities.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,great teams and location and food,the worst thing in the area is traffic
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,"Smart co-workers, challenging problems, great perks",Can't think of any at the moment
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,Amazing place to work - great people and great benefits,This is not a place to coast - come ready to make a difference.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,Exciting to work in a company that powers billions of people's lives everyday.,Becoming more conventional as size grows with a limited scope of what one can do.
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,+ Awesome projects,"- Size of the company is huge, so don't expect startup culture."
2,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P2.htm,"Very impactful work, great coworkers, good work-life balance, some interesting projects.","Due to the size of the company, different divisions of Google have different cultures. It can be hard for job applicants to know which divisions they want to work in."
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"There benifits are good,and it will bring you a lot of good things for your family.",Good company ever...i recomment to any one who is currently looking for there good job.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Google is the best company to work for. The perks are amazing, every detail is considered! The work is interesting and colleagues smart and fun to work with.",It can be a little intimidating when everyone is at the top of their game. When everyone's a high performer it's very hard to stand out.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Google deserves every bit of its ""Best Company to Work For"" reputation. My own experience was in getting to build a business from scratch inside the company and watching it flourish.","The bureaucracy and big company feel is starting to creep in. Despite a ""Bureaucracy Busters"" campaign, there are days I feel like I am attaching a cover sheet to my TPS report."
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Good infrastructure, good people to work with, nice perks.",The company is too big to get anything done reasonably easy.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Amazing benefits, good pay, extremely intelligent people, engaging work that impacts a lot of people. Managers are competent, and promotion is meritocratic.",Main offices are in expensive areas. Oncall rotations interfere with work-life balance.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,Great perks. Flexible schedule. Meet great people.,To many managers. To many meetings. Favoritism place a huge role with management.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"There are so many great benefits at Google. Food, exercise classes, and the work spaces are just great. Great sense of freedom and that you are in control of what you're working on",Google is a huge company. Sometimes feels like you get lost in what you're doing. Great company but definitely feels big.
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Tons of perks, good pay. If you have the chance, it's worth working there and experiencing it!","Workload can be daunting at times, FTE's and TVC's are viewed VERY differently in the culture."
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,"Friendly and competitive environment,unlimited food and perks.I have worked for google more than 3 years and always felt this place like my second home.","Work during weekends,nothing particular."
4,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P4.htm,- Extremely smart and nice people,- Mature products move slow due to size and complexity
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,Great smart people. All the usual perks,Flat structure means career movement can be difficult
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,"Great place as long as your team is good. If your team is not that good, you always have the option to switch.",Career growth depends heavily on team and manager.
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,I learn a lot. Google pays for my Masters degree at Stanford.,"My teammates are not great at English, and sometimes results in miscommunication. It's a team-specific problem though, my other Googler friends don't have this problem."
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,"Huge Impact, lots of interesting people you work with, people get excited every time you mention you work there. Overall though I really enjoyed working there and would recommend.","Lots of management overhead, does move slowly, especially on the engineering side, which means you sometimes have to sit on your hands. Also there's a decent amount of back and forth from middle management on direction."
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,You will learn more here than anywhere else you've worked.,Work life Balance
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,Great coworkers and a ton of opportunities.,It is too boring to work there.
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,"Very friendly people and very interesting work. The working environment is very nice and we only need to worry about work we are responsible for, and anything else is well taken care of by other assistants and applications.",A common problem with large companies: it is a lot competition to climb up the latter from an ordinary engineer.
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,- Access to a vast wealth of technical resources and people,"- Given large size of company, often easy to get lost among thousands of other employees."
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,"Huge resources available, world-class brilliant people to work with. Great place to learn how to scale real-world systems.","It has become a big company. It's leaner and less bureaucratic than most big companies, but it's still a big company."
5,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P5.htm,"It's a good company, good place to work and good place to learn.","Nothing specific, haven't had any issues working here."
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Good opportunities, mobility, good reward",Company is very very big
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Everything you've ever heard about working at Google is true. Benefits are awesome, coworkers are awesome, and your work affects millions of people.","Politics are starting to get in the way of engineering. Since launches are incentivized so heavily in promo process, negative dogfood feedback is often ignored on the way to launch, with few or no consequences."
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Great perks, amazing technology, inspiring activities","Very biased towards whatever engineering wants, creating unfair conditions for everyone else."
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,The company offers generous perks. The locations of headquarters and other offices are great.,"Associate directors, directors, and senior directors are engaged in political battles. Promotions are very political"
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,great environment and place to work,hours can be long sometimes
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Food, Google Bus, Great culture, upward mobility, independent office hours","Not in San Francisco, traffic getting worse, sometimes too focused internally"
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,Work with top notch people and learn how to build product for millions of users.,Not a small company. It's slow to deploy product changes and as a product person you'll spend way more time building consensus and getting approval for launching something than actually building the product.
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Google is still full of bright motivated people, working on world-class products. The company is led by solid people, who truly care about continuing to make the world a better place.","The company is a lot bigger than it used to be, and though it's done better than most, it can't help slowing down as it grows. Some of the reasons I came to work at Google when it was 1000 employees are no longer true."
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,"Awesome benefits and ability to work remotely or from other offices, free food is a major plus as well",Most jobs are in MTV where cost of living is extremely high even when making almost $100K
6,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P6.htm,great work environment,long hours but I think everything makes up for it
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,hard to get in,nice salary and internal work environment
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Google is as advertised - it's an amazing place to work full of incredibly smart people working on interesting and challenging problems. The pay and perks are great. In theory there is a lot of opportunity for mobility and Google does seem committed to developing people over the course of their careers.,"Some Googlers are incredibly entitled and complain about mundane issues. It's less nimble than it used to be. Certain organizations (People Operations) are bureaucratic and very top-down in leadership style, which is antithetical to the way Google portrays itself."
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Google was a great company to work.,It is too comfortable. You must get out of comfort zones. It might be a great company to work. But remember every big company in the past such as Microsoft was like that.
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Great Learning Opportunities,Difficult Work but worth the challenge
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Its a fun place to work,Some people take advantage of it too much
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,"Flexible hours, awesome benefits, amazing coworkers!",Work was hard but fair. Sometimes the work felt like it never ended.
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Work with the smartest people. Fast paced. Challenging.,Will burn you out. Gives whatever you are willing to sacrifice.
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,"strong financial, lavish perks, smart people to learn from","little impact, small rolls, politics, people just waiting for retirement there"
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,Google is probably the best corporate environment to work in. A lot of opportunities to get exposed to things outside of your immediate job. Strong brand allows you to open many doors. Of course the perks have,Google is far from being a startup and it slowly becomes more and more corporate. Selecting a team and evaluating its culture before joining becomes more important to make sure your expectations match your team's.
7,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P7.htm,1. Work with smart people in a great company,1. Limited impact.
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Very creative atmosphere, and the quality of people you work with is noticeably better than anywhere else.","I can't think of any yet, other than all the cons that go with working for a Big Corporate Machine."
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,google has a very flexible culture. You can benefits from learning experience from other geeks.,"Since it is already a huge company. So probably some of the projects at google are not as challenging as before. If you want to solve challenging problem, then it's not the perfect place."
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,great place to work as a fulltime/intern,can not think of any
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,Some of the best perks in the industry.,The office politics are harsh.
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Great people (generally smart, friendly, and hard-working)","Lack of opportunity for senior talent (staff and above) to really make a dent in the organization. This, coupled with the very slow promo process (1.5 years / level) and Google's tendency to downlevel on hire can be very frustrating. To some extent, I felt like I had to simply wait for leadership to retire or play the political game to get much further in my career."
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Good benefits, Smart people, great culture","Ambiguous environment, not easy to navigate for a lot of ppl"
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Talented people, interesting projects, good perks and benefits.",Big big big - lots of politics/ nothing moves. Leadership skills of leaders on average is low since tech acumen valued by leadership is not.
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,It was great. It was a different time but it was great.,A little scattered at times. This was part of the fun.
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Overall work and life balance is promoted through various incentives. The people are bright and great to work with. Free breakfast and lunch! Google offers multiple perks. There's interest groups for about anything, volunteering opportunities, and projects outside your domain expertise to get involved with. You have a portal to learn various skills on your own or on your expertise at about anytime as long as you sign… Show More",Communication between team members out side of the weekly team meeting had no consistency.Team is separated into focus areas specialized for each member and the overall team which can have constraints for those who are not self thought or self starters. Team may feel distant at times if it's divided by offices. Expect to hit the workload at light speed while making sure you are ALWAYS on top of everything so that it'… Show More
8,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P8.htm,"Even though I am not an employee of Google, I still get many of the perks like food and coffee and the gym",The company is getting so big that standards can be different from org to org causing confusion for employees
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,Colleagues and managers were extremely supportive,"Lots of bureaucracy, which is normal and expected for such a large company"
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,Salary and benefits are decent,Unless you are level 5+ your opinion is meaningless
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,"Incredibly brilliant people, very comfortable amenities and perks. The opportunity to solve (mostly) really interesting challenges and problems at a HUGE scale.",Your experience varies so much based on your team and who your manager is. More training needed for people to actually manage and get the most out of people. Great perks don't make up for the other parts.
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,"- Work is technically challenging. Not incremental stuff, 50% devoted to ambitious work",- Work with very talented/ambitious people who will not tolerate shoddy work
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,"food, intelligent people, great access to resource and mentors","basically none, it was great"
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,It's Google after all! I had a great time working there and my co-workers were quite supportive.,The workload was quite heavy and sometime I had to work late nights.
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,- Work with top coders on the planet.,Workload can be daunting at times when you want to just sit back and relax. Not really that place unless you are super smart.
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,Free food- they have professional chefs,Politics - too much focus on titles and ranks sucking up to other people
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,Great culture.,"As the company grew bigger, politics started trickling in."
9,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P9.htm,perks (lots of free stuff),"getting larger, more bureaucratic"
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,Great food. Smart coworkers. Nice weather.,This depends on the person.
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,Exciting business opportunities,Bureaucracy
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,"they were ok, good management, good environment","poor training, some lack of direction and understanding"
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,Independent working ethics for staff,projects can easily be shut down
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,"nice people, and great benefits",difficult to transition full-time for most
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,If is full time could be perfect,Is perfect it doesn't have any negative
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,"During the time I was at Google, I have had the pleasure to work with smart, savvy, and dedicated people who truly have passions for what we do - it is contagious.",Nothing really major from my opinion.
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,"All benefits on food, drink. Well life-work balance and provide good environment to work.","No, everything works perfectly. Its very hard to say cons."
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,Super awesome place I need one more word.,Totally nothing is bad about the GooG!
10,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P10.htm,Everyday is an exciting challenge. The people are incredible.,Can get a bit competitive at times (in a good way).
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,Really loyal place to work like a family.,Dont want to leave some days
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,"Great people, awesome culture (people are Googley), gourmet food.",Advancement is a bit hit and miss. You can get stuck on a dead-end project (and there are surprisingly many of those at Google).
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,A lot of freedom for charting your own path. A lot more encouragement to make yourself productive than being pressured to be productive.,"The size of the company shows. You have to work at group speed, mostly think and work the group way. Slow growth curve."
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,Great area and good pay,Lots of competition and hard to move up
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,free food management cares about their employees.,Working with too many talented and creative people can result in clashing of the minds
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,Very good atmosphere to work,I dont have any thing to say bad about the company
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,"tons of perks, dog friendly",no major cons to mention
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,"high salary, good insurance and benefits","high tax, high expense to live"
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,many money and good benefit.,too big to do something
11,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P11.htm,"Lot of opportunity for work and fun. Agree that is #1 place to work for. Good food, good peers and good projects.",Company becoming big....lots of team to interact and work with. Work life balance compromised if not paid attention to.
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"Lot of opportunity for work and fun. Agree that is #1 place to work for. Good food, good peers and good projects.",Company becoming big....lots of team to interact and work with. Work life balance compromised if not paid attention to.
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"salary, benefits, flexibility, culture, transparency","senior leadership, career opportunities for senior levels, performance management"
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,Great atmosphere and the schedule is very flexible,Can get hectic at times
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"A lot of responsibility. Exciting. Fantastically smart, capable, and fun colleagues. Great salary and benefits. Lots of international travel. Entrepreneurial culture.","In general: a lot of people are slacking at the moment. They don't really care about what they're doing. Company lacks proper processes, accountability, and avoids conflict to the point that it languishes dangerously."
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"Super smart people, great infrastructure, access to lots of users. Potential for big impact.","Lots of inertia, due to size. Bureaucratic and political."
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"Lots of things to learn. Free food, gyms, bike, shuttle, laundry; smart people, now, what else do I miss?",There are lots of different internal systems which you can build things upon. But the learning curve is steep - take a long time to ramp up.
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,"fun and intellectually stimulating work environment, great people",big organization and it's hard to get noticed
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,Access/exposure to a lot of cool projects before they are widely known to the public and your foot in the door to landing a full time position with the company,"The program was very unstructured. A lot of us were confused what were could and couldn't do after ""orientation."" If you ask me, a lot of the events hosted by ambassadors representing the company were poorly run/planned which in turn made the company look bad (some ambassadors did a better job than others)"
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,this job has really given me insight out the job game really works. I learned how to develop software in my spare time and always love the cafeteria,"there is really no downside to Google. As an employee, I have access to resources and great training and coaching. Please hire my friends as well."
12,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P12.htm,I worked at Google for over 7 years. It is the longest that I have worked at any company. That is a testimonial to how good the company is! I left Google because I wanted to try my hand at starting my own company or joining an early stage start up.,"Over the years, Google has become more bureaucratic. Unfortunately, several groups are working in the same area and the usual turf battles happen. Also, it has become harder to change projects than before."
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"Work with some of the smartest and most creative talent around, contribute to a company that makes a significant impact in the daily lives of billions of users, enjoy all the amazing benefits and perks.",The large size of the company has produced bureaucracy and several layers of teams/departments/orgs that can slow down decision making and progress.
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"Very good working environment, smart people, great benefit. Also a very good work - life balance",Starts to become a little bit too big and is more like a big corporation now..
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"Great benefits, surrounded by smart/motivated people, lots of perks, locations around the world, 401K match, health benefits are outstanding",Getting way to big. Levels are everything to everyone. Lower pay than other startups. Inequity of treatment between the sales side and the engineering side of the businesses.
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"Amazing place to learn, grow, and have a scaled impact","Large, corporate, and difficult to rise up after a certain point in your career"
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"The culture is amazing! What you read in the articles about the perks and people is absolutely true. It's great to work at a company that offers 3 meals a day Monday-Friday, where I feel comfortable around 100% of the people and where you have the ability to make your own schedule.",Google is still a big and established company. There will still be a corporate hierarchy that will take months or years to change compared to quick feedback within a startup.
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,Good for most of the things,"Meal, policy. and so on"
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,Getting to work for Google. Great culture outside of the ITRP program.,"They will lie to recruit you, and promise training, ops roations, and learning opportunities that never happen."
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,All of the perks are incredible!,The commute is tough from SF
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,"Google spoils its employees. Free breakfast lunch and dinner, great amenities, and budgets never seem to be an issue (at other jobs I've had to beg travel budget -- at Google, I can pretty much take any trip I think is worthwhile). They also do tons to reduce friction as an employee.",It *is* a big company. Things don't turn on a dime; there is a lot of process. And it is *very* engineering directed.
13,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P13.htm,Whatever you can think of! I feel like a king when I'm at work. I absolutely love my job!!!!,"The traffic can get really nasty and the housing prices are just unbelievably high, but the whole bay area has such problems and has nothing to do with the company"
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,Whatever you can think of! I feel like a king when I'm at work. I absolutely love my job!!!!,"The traffic can get really nasty and the housing prices are just unbelievably high, but the whole bay area has such problems and has nothing to do with the company"
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,Because I will create helpful tools to use,Fix computer and having better service
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,The perks are amazing!,"Too big, hard to make a real impact"
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,Great place to work love it,no feedback to give. super good workplace
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,Amazing people and atmosphere. Crazy good benefits.,Not a single con working here.
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,lots of new projects and good team to work with..,cant say anything of that kind
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,"great company, had an amazing time and learned a lot. look forward to going back. super fun people and had a very good time. love google. love it so much",cons are that there are absolutely no cons but google is life and without it we wouldnt be alive today so thank you google and everything you do. you are life.
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,- Very smart people,"- Bureaucracy, politics, legal issues, and privacy handling take up more and more time over the years and slow innovation and development."
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,"Flexible, lots of opportunities, good environment.","Everything is good, infrastructure is the best."
14,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P14.htm,great company to work for,getting very large in size
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"The work culture is excellent; being nice to others is rewarded socially, and economically. The projects are incredibly diverse, and challenging. And the compensation and perks are very generous. As the person leading the orientation told me on my first day: ""We want you to be happy. If you're happy you're more productive."" I'm happy indeed :)","Work-life balance can be difficult, not necessarily due to management asking you to work off-hours, but because sometimes it's hard to disconnect."
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,you can work on what you want to work on,felt like a little cog in the machine
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"Great perks, very smart people, great atmosphere, good leadership. Overall, very nice company to work for and a lot to learn from. Good compensation doesn't hurt.","Sometimes people can get overly competitive. While it's good to have many young people in the company, some are arrogant and entitled. Depending on the group, some could have fratty culture."
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,+ Stable job,+ Finance team full of mediocre people especially at the top- these are people who joined Google when finance@Google was not a great option and then these people just rode the wave.
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"Free food, good infrastructure, mostly great people, mission, if you can get into a team that actually has a mission. Good pay, though no longer the best. Engineers still (mostly) run things there. It's easy to switch projects if you perform well and opportunities are actually available (which is not a given, especially in remote offices). It also feels like the company actually gives a damn about making the front li… Show More","Way too much middle management and hierarchy, mostly incompetent lower level management (it's a quick way to get promoted when you're out of steam technically you start going to a bunch of meetings and become a TLM), little to no opportunity for advancement as individual contributor, super-competitive atmosphere, very little recognition is general, since your ""very best"" is ""meh"" there. Some people get promoted to ve… Show More"
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"Perfect Salary, work enviroment","san francisco is very expensive, although I was making a lot of money I ended up spending all of it. Hard to find right place to live"
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"good pay, perks",can be stressful at times
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,Work life balance is great. Free food.,Free food but not great. Perks are not easy to understand.
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"Free food, smart people, great pay, exciting work! The bay area has beautiful weather as well which is a bonus",It is hard to advance up the mangement chain because people here are so smart. Might be better fit to work at a smaller company
15,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P15.htm,"The perks are legendary here. Contrary to rumors, the food quality is still very good, some of the newer cafes on the main campus get rave reviews. Get to work with lots of very smart people, with mostly good attitudes. Very academic atmosphere where research and analysis of data is the preferred way to guide decisions.","Very crowded campuses, easy to feel lost in a sea of employees. Free food, but nowhere to sit down and eat it. Not always easy to spend time on ""20 percent time"" projects as advertised. Lots of internal bureaucracy, surveys, and distractions of optional employee-oriented programs. Self-promotion is encouraged, so prepare to toot your own horn and compete for recognition of your project if you want to get promoted"
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"Lots of opensource , good environment",food is not good. tasty is not good too.
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"You'll be surrounded by very smart people, which helps your professional growth; compensation & benefits make you feel valued by the company","Because there are so many smart people, the company can hire overqualified people for a given position, which can ultimately adversely impact job satisfaction"
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"Great coworkers, detailed docs and a lot of learning materials to help you become a good engineer.",1. There is not so much work to do.
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,Google is a great company at the forefront of technological advancement. The pay and hours are good and the work culture is laid back.,"There are enough talented people that being talented won't guarantee you an inside track on good projects, because there are thousands of equally smart people ahead in the queue and equally underutilized, but there are just enough bozos that you have to prove that you're not one of them"
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"Product and tech leadership are outstanding, no one else is doing what Google is and succeeding.","Sales / business side is becoming political, zero sum game and bureaucratic."
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"Great people, lots of perks, awesome benefits, global scope.","Bureaucracy, challenges to promotion, competitive."
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,Tremendous opportunity to learn and develop a deep understanding of how global scale technologies and companies need to work.,Huge scale can be overwhelming
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"Growth potential, benefits, innovation, community contribution, health care,",I can not think of any
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,"I've gone from a new grade hire to the tech lead of a 8 person team in 2 1/2 years, and I've learned a ton along the way. Not every engineer you'll work with is amazing, some are just good, and a few are mediocre. However, so many are amazing that it's an absolute pleasure to work on the same codebase as they do.","Mountain View-centric attitude leads to extreme commute times. This is the largest negative about working here, and I probably would have left by now if I wasn't able to work from home or the SF office most of the week. I'm sure if you live in boring suburbia it'd be fine, but I don't want to do that."
16,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P16.htm,Every perk you can imagine!,Company is getting too big to maintain well-known culture standards
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"good working environment, handsome salary,good growth and free lunch. you will learn lot of new things, diverse working environment.",no cons as it is good company
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"Great benefits, work life balance, growth opportunities. Promoted to lead expansion in new geos within 2 years. Fun outings and team building","Bureaucracy at times like any other companies. Consensus driven culture. Senior management is sometimes managing up rather than down, which can be frustrating"
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,Great place to work and build your career.,Too much Work!
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"Great environment, lots of opportunities",None that i can think of.
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"Lots of accomplished and diverse engineers around you, best practices are very refined, mentorship and sense of community between teams and buildings is very strong if you are willing to participate!","so large scale (hopefully more addressable with the new restructuring) that similar projects spawn at different offices that couldve been better generalized and collaborated on if there had been a better platform for discovering ongoing or pitched projects. Had a very positive experience with my first internship, but my second felt more overbearing and too broad to be polished on delivery by the end of my internship.… Show More"
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"Lots of perks - amazing free food, micro kitchens stocked with snacks and any kind of beverage you'd want, baristas, fitness center, subsidized massages and more. They compensation is generous and most of the employees are very fun, nice and smart.",-There is not a lot of opportunity in the Cambridge office to advance for non-engineering positions
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,Perks are too many to mention and with so many smart people to follow around you're going to learn a lot!,"For most I think the small impact you can make, because there is so much talent there and roles can be narrowly defined."
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,Google has the clout and money necessary to provide all the resources necessary to succeed.,"I guess I didn't drink the Kool-Aid. Google has been a major success story in building the web into what it is today. However, most of the management and employees have fallen in love with their own intelligence. This is very bad news for the future growth of the company. Additionally, Google is very risk adverse no matter that they have a ""moonshot"" factory. They don't stick to their goals when there are set backs."
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,"Great culture, it's up to you to make your impact, amazing technology, treat us like adults, food's awesome, total comp is really great (current stock price really helps!)",Things change so quickly that it can be difficult to figure out the right way to get something done. Tools get deprecated so quickly that it's a constant race to make sure valuable tools continue to get updated and work. Growing fast so office space is really becoming an issue.
17,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P17.htm,* Friendly and smart co worker,"* Its a big company, a little bureaucracy is creeping in."
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"Lots of mobility, opportunities to be creative and take the lead.","With the company being so large, sometimes it's difficult to get significant recognition of novel work."
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"Great place to work at. Literally has everything you need to work, eat, and play.",There are no cons with Google. This is the best company in the world.
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"I was experiencing great fulfillment working for such great Company, using my linguistic skills and Italian culture in a multicultural environment.",Salary compensation was unsatisfying and inadequate for the high quality professional performances provided.
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,Great culture. Company really puts employee first.,Getting bigger with more hierarchy.
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,flexible working hours and the work-life balance,you cannot make intelligent decisions
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"Great place to work, lots of places to eat and drink","Too many people, too many visitors"
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,it was awesome I really liked the culture of Google. I loved coming to work everyday.,I don't really see any cons of working at google. I decided to leave because I wanted to be closer to my family
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"Great coworkers, lots of opportunities",Harder to transfer between roles
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,"Culture, people, great benefits and perks, competitive compensation","Work long hours, no work-life balance"
18,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P18.htm,You'll get to work with a lot of smart folks...,...who spend a lot of time being code janitors.
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Great people, Great culture and Wonderful opportunities.",Too many great people. Too many debates on the scope of the product.
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,Constant change,"Constant change (depends on how you look at it, I see it as a positive)"
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,great perks and great work environment.,small fish in a big sea.
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,Open culture; fast moving; dynamic; ambitious; lots of perks; strong culture,"getting very large and a bit bureaucratic, certain parts of the company can be political; less opportunities for people at the director level and up. Certain parts of the business - like Android and Play - have little work / life balance. Little appreciation of marketing in certain businesses that are entrenched monopolies."
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Excellent pay and benefits (by far the best software engineering pay I've seen in the Boston area). Higher bonus and stock than anywhere else, too.","Can be hard to feel like you're making an impact or get recognition in such a large company, especially a remote office."
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Smart and engaging coworkers, free food/beverages, free transportation, free parking, access to Google events, free massages","Expected to work at maintain quick pace, even for sales. The pace makes it difficult to enjoy all of the pros listed above."
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Good perks, food, general Google lifestyle","Bad middle management, political, slow moving"
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Culture of innovation, appreciation for strong performance, high value placed on quality managers.","As the company grows, it takes longer to make decisions and get things done."
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,1. The job is challenging and you get to learn.,"1. Promotion is hard. It depends on not only your performance, but also how your team's status, and some relatively random decision."
19,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P19.htm,"Free food, nice environment, decent salary, good company reputation, and a lot more great things.","Overall great experience, haven't found any."
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,"Free food, nice environment, decent salary, good company reputation, and a lot more great things.","Overall great experience, haven't found any."
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,-Amazing coworkers and teammates,-Navigating career changes internally can be challenging. Just because you're at the company doesn't mean the process is necessarily easier for changing roles
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,"Google has a very open culture. Granted, being a large company, its ideals aren't always met, but the the culture of the company is to constantly strive to meet them. Among all the current large companies in the world, the culture is vastly superior.","It spoils you. If you ever leave, it would be very hard to work somewhere else."
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,Google offers real challenge to employees that want to work hard,"Working hard can include long hours, weekends, accommodating global timezones and other difficulties. This is not a 9-5 company. Moving up can be incredibly slow."
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,"Good food. Good co-workers, Opportunities to leave the comapny","Work and life balance, no time off, the future of the company is all based on moonshots. The core products are doing well, but could have the stool pulled from under them at any moment."
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,"Opportunity to grow, training and integrity, people will feel good about themselg",Diversity of employee not close to home or lack of individual recognition.
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,Great work Envirnoment and friendly staff.,No cons that I can think of
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,"They fly you out to Mountain View HQ over summer to get trained for a few days. You learn about the Google culture, explore their offices, and have fun with the other Ambassadors. All the Ambassadors stay in a hotel. During the daytime, you have a bunch of workshops at the offices and free food. At night you go back to the hotels and PARTY! Jk, well you can. Oh and everything is ALL EXPENSE PAID!",They dont really give you that much spending money during the school year for your marketing events. Communication is very poor during the school year as well.
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,Google is a good place to work with free food and great perks. the 20% time to work on own projects is a bit blown though,This company is going the big wigs way. The 20% time to work on own projects is over blown and you really dont get this much time.
20,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P20.htm,-Food,"-Contract workers do not get PTO, sick leave, or any trips/perks as Google employees"
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Salaries are competitive. Perks and benefits are great. The culture of ""do no evil."" is still alive.","It's be come too big and too bureaucratic. Too many rules and red tape to go through to get anything done, even when trying to change roles or projects. HR is too diplomatic, not really interested in helping employees, they're more concern about preventing Google from being sued. Google's annual survey is there, but haven't seen anything come of it. Work life balance isn't balanced anymore. It's more work, less of a … Show More"
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Nice environment, good food, many fun",The funs are distracting a little bit.
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,The best part of the job is when you just talk with your mates and have fun because thats what it is all about.,Some of the people are rude and don't listen to you so just make sure to select the right teammates in your groups.
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"(1) Countless perks that probably adds 20% to your base salary (including free food, transportation, gym, dance/sports classes, etc)","(1) Too many smart people, too much conflict. There is saying in Google, ""Welcome to Google, where impossible stuff is easy, and easy stuff is impossible"""
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Free meals; Easy going, laid back work environment.",Internal politics sometimes prevents you from growth
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,Lots of potential for learning on exciting projects,Company has grown to be large
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Relaxed atmosphere means you aren't having your back watched. Folks can inflate their performance if they want and don't have to work too hard. Probably put in realistically about 30 hours per week of real work. Great benefits including free meals, free barista, free juice bar, free on-site gym with trainers, lots of events including on-site presenters. Local and Global perks including discounts on EVERYTHING much li… Show More",Some real politics are going on these days. You will find the global business organization (their sales division) is more risk averse and people can be back-stabbing in your own team to get political gain. The performance review process is very flawed. They don't tell you what goes into it and therefore you may or may not get promoted and don't know why. Play the politics game and that will help you win. Make up infl… Show More
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Great Company. The food is amazing. The people are brilliant, and the passion is palpable!","There is a lot of flux at the company (re-orgs on a regular basis), which makes it hard to keep your feet under you. Working at Google and excelling means either being really flexible and quick, or being inflexible and driving forward with your projects no matter the environment."
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,Great benefits and friendly people. Never had a terrible day here.,Expensive area to live in
21,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P21.htm,"Great benefits, opportunity to work with smart individuals. NYC building is gorgeous.","Incredibly competitive environment translates into always having to 'watch your back.' Based on my experience, I would say the Engineer culture is very different from the Sales/Business culture. The Sales/Business culture can be stodgy, dry, and incredibly 'corporate.' Training can be very difficult to find at times, which ultimately slows down ramp-up time."
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,"Working for a company that has massive scale, reach, and a positive influence on people every day. Transparency from the very top down. Opportunities to work with brilliant minds.","It's a large company, and like any big company, there can be bureaucracy. Commuting to Mountain View can be a bit of a drag."
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,All the benefits are amazing.,The sheer size of the company can be a bit aggravating sometimes. Along with the entitlement. Work-life was not particularly good at times.
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,"Free food, great benefits, flexible work environment.","Competitive, because everyone you work with is also very talented."
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,Nothing to add here unfortunately,Horrible place to work and management is completely removed from employees. I would not recommend working here.
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,Living the Google life.,"The ""brilliant people creating innovative things"" represents the engineering culture more than anything. In People ops, theres Google is full of corporate politics, as well as a changing culture. Google recruiting is now full of people who push buttons. People that have been then longer than 5 years still struggle to get a promotion or move into a new role. They shuffle the same leaders to different roles, making no … Show More"
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,"very smart people, fascinating innovation, amazing perks",complicated organization with frequent reorganizations
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,"Great work life balance, amazing perks, smart and ambitious co-workers. Great lateral mobility opportunities at the company. Food is amazing too.",You're a small fish in a big pond. Easy for some people to coast and get lost in the crowd. The work you are doing likely has very little impact on the overall company.
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,Google is perhaps the best big corporation you can work for which is well known so I don't have to write much here.,WLB in a lot of marketing teams is a myth
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,Great company culture and benefits,Poor work-life balance at work
31,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P31.htm,Great place to work at,Nothing is bad about google
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Great engineering teams. Great infrastructure.,More and more problems when growing into a big company.
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,"Great teams, great products, great environment. Highly recommended.","Too much delicious food, not enough time to eat it all. :)"
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Work at google to get free food,"It 's becoming larger, and with it comes growing pains"
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Great benefits; Free Food; Smart Coworkers; Impactful Projects,Its gotten too big. Politics and bureacracy have become significant problems.
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,"There is always fascinating, challenging work to do and plenty of opportunity to improve professional skills. We have the resources we need to achieve our goals. We enjoy excellent benefits, and the over-all compensation packages are terrific. It is possible to achieve a healthy work-life balance.","Google is continuing to grow and as we do, it is increasingly bureaucratic... the quality of senior leaders is now uneven, and there is a level of uncertainty about the company's direction from senior executives."
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,"Amazing benefits, especially insurance and maternity leave","Constant restructuring, always had to ""prove"" self to new management, difficult review cycle (which improved slightly shortly after I left)"
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Your work gets a lot of exposure.,So many talented people around you that it is very hard to single out.
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Google is the most innovative large company that treats their employees well.,"If you want to be part of a small company where you can know everyone individually, Google is not the place for you."
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,Had a lot of fun at this job. Was really cool to be working for google. Would recomend.,There was always lots of work to be done and had to work long hours. Must be very committed to the job.
30,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P30.htm,"Great perks, work environment, free food",Long commute and turning into a very large organizaiton
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,Easy to recruiter folks when you have a big brand like Google behind you. My manager was generally available and was great about internal mobility.,"Google's hiring process is a bear, which made it very difficult as a recruiter. Making meaningful and non-trivial suggestions often fell on deaf ears."
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,"There were a lot of perks, everyone raves about the breakfast, lunch and dinner. I guess it really helps with your productivity",It was hard to balance my duties at work with time away from work in my personal life. I was constantly on and needed to put out fires
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,Good work life balance.,Google has grown big and its hard to find your place.
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,Fast Smart Rewarding People Location,Big Getting Slower Policy Parking
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,"Great Food, Perks and Benefits",Lots of change constantly occuring
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,Great place to be great job,Not a single thing I can think of
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,"Free, heathy food offerings, good benefits package","Too many middle managers with lack of focus, start projects and then quickly abandon them, open discrimination of women, disabled and minorities."
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,Google paid very well overall as long as you can pass the interviews.,It may be some boring in Google recent years.
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,the company has great perks and snacks,nothing bad to say about the company
29,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P29.htm,"Tales of terrible work-life balance are exaggerated, tales of lavish benefits are not. 9-5 or 10-6 are pretty standard working hours, although some choose to work longer.","The open office layout is noisy and distracting - it's possible to cope, but I really wish we had separate cubes or offices."
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,The best company in the world,NA
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,Smart and interesting people. Great culture. Engineers rule. Fun work environment. Pretty open and transparent leadership. Clear career paths that strive to be a meritocracy. Yummy free food and snacks. I enjoyed my time there.,There are no other better companies in the world
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,"Google has amazing benefits and perks, a lively social atmosphere, and some of the most talented and bright sales people you'll meet",It's a huge company. That means you won't always feel special like I have working at smaller startups. That also means that it's hard to generalize about the company. Life can be very different for you depending on your team and role.
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,Good people. great work environment.,"Management is hit and miss, there are lots of organizational restructures in the sales/marketing teams and it can feel chaotic, many of the pain points you'd expect working for a big corporation"
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,We made the best tacos,intern work may not be valuable to the company. fortunately mine was production
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,Great people to work with.,Did not allow sleeping on the job
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,work life balance. good working environment,"Work culture, salary, benefits, trainings and poor communication."
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,"Working in a company that makes amazing products, having access to amazing people, and being able to affect technology that will have an impact.",sometimes over time working. Normal salary
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,"work-life balance, perks/benefits, impactful work, job security","It is easy to get lost and overwhelmed if you do not have a clear role and desire to continuously grow. If you get complacent or if you do not pay attention to surrounding teams, you probably will not be there long."
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,Easy to recruiter folks when you have a big brand like Google behind you. My manager was generally available and was great about internal mobility.,"no longer a flat structure, sometimes too hierarchical, HR too involved"
28,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P28.htm,nothing,"Google's hiring process is a bear, which made it very difficult as a recruiter. Making meaningful and non-trivial suggestions often fell on deaf ears."
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,Passionate people,"It can be daunting to start since you have to get used to all the tools (there are a lot of tools, especially Google specific tools)."
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Wonderful mission from the founders and leaders, which truly trickle down to every aspect of the company. Employees feel connected and included in the amazing contributions made from the entire Google workforce. You can tell that the founders truly do have idealistic notions that permeate the culture and create an atmosphere that is difficult to find and authentically recreate.","Depending on the department, bureaucracy can quite a problem. There were obvious ways to make things better, but the top leaders were either uninvolved and focused on other 'sexier' projects, or were never given the honest/critical information. Inefficiencies weren't fixed because teams and departments were built around how things worked (not optimally). This led to management pushing and trying to exceed targets in … Show More"
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,- Velocity,I cannot think of any.
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Free food, great campus, great space, great people, unlimited resources, always something to do","It's still a business, there are still offices... you'll never escape some aspects of a typical job"
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Google has great coworkers, top-notch hardware and software infrastructure, excellent total compensation, lots of autonomy for workers, and excellent managers.",Google is a blatantly liberal company.
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"cool, smart people, pretty laid back, lots of the perks of being a google employee (e.g. games, lots of free food, etc)","the management was pretty bad, they didn't really listen to engineers and in particular treated engineering as if they were children"
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Loved the people when I started, loved the perks, loved the flexibility and trust in employees. Awesome opportunities for side projects","Sales team is big and bureaucratic, not startup-like at all. Hard to get out of sales onto other teams. Very few opportunities in Boston due to it being a remote office."
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,Good work-life balance. You can easily stay at T5 while working 40 hours a week.,"Bad career path. Most people stop at T5. To reach T6, you have to fight for leadership and ownership."
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Great Benefits, Good Perks, Smart Co-workers","No Life - Work Balance, Not a Organizational Structure. Process is missing"
27,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P27.htm,"Great company to work for, fun times and challenging problems every day of the week. great food also.","I never had problems there, salary was good not exceptional"
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,very engaging and creative work,very competitive and high stress
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,Its a great environment and i love it,great workers and great food
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,"Great culture, perks, brilliant peers.",None at all. Can get difficult at times with middle management
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,"Amazing food, perks, people, etc",I can not think of anything
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,"Perks, culture, coworkers are all spectacular",Management quality depends on your department/product
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,really great opportunity to network and meet new people.,Long hours (55+) as an unpaid intern.
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,smart co-workers and they are nice ppl,some times too much politics
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,"Culture, people, opportunities, benefits. A lot of the people think Google is all about lava lamps, free food, big pay checks. If Google removes all of it, Google will still be Google",Hires ex-consultants for operational leadership roles who continue to be consultants than operational leaders (with some exceptions). Not open to leveraging industry best practices and a lot of re-inventions happen for processes that can easily be leveraged from the market. This might be frustrating for folks with significant industry experience.
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,great great pay and benefits,"no no cons, nothing negative"
25,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P25.htm,Great work conditions and good atmosphere also really nice benefits. Also the work space is really nice and love the free food,None the atmosphere is great wonderful work condition and great salery so working at Google is fantastic and very nice co workers
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,Smart people,Company is becoming bigger so there is lot of competition for projects and promotions.
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,Excellent first company to join after college. Best launchpad for career.,Promotions are based on politics. For management & HR: Many TLMs pick favorites and reduce opportunities for others by restricting project allocations. Encourage 6-month transfers to help employees find better and cohesive teams where they will happily remain and let others move. It'll also let bad teams / TLs get smaller and atrophy which is good for Google overall.
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,Great campus and intern culture,The shuttle schedules were sometimes hard to work around
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,"good easy, fun, good management, smart","not enough work, not worth it"
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,"free food, massages, co workers and environment",nothing really except you don't get to choose which state you'd like to be placed in when you're entry level but a great company either way
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,"Great company, lots of interesting work, great coworkers, upward mobility.","Frustrating management at times, hard to feel meanginful with so many people, tiring work sometimes."
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,Flex time and once you leave work your day is done.,No room to become full time none contract.. Pay is on the low end.
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,"awesome people, great perks, best place to launch a career.","big company, need to learn skills to deal with it."
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,Free stuff is pretty awesome,Hard to go up as a contractor
24,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P24.htm,"Visionary leadership, interesting products, great brand, great perks, very focused on employee development/growth","As it gets larger, it gets slower, more dysfunctional, less efficient."
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"It's Google. You work with smart people, work on interesting projects, and have fantastic perks. Work life balance was surprisingly good.",Hiring can be a mess and take forever. There's a lot of either deprecated technology in the stack or tech that is not ready to use.
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"Imagine a place that you are working with the 20% people all the time, this is how it is working in Google. You can trust your co-working to get their part done almost 90+% of the time without nagging them.","Still have politics. The company is large, so some things don't get done as quickly. Some overachievers are trying very hard to shine. If you are aggressive and try to climb the corporate ladder than the competition can be tough."
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"Great benefits and work-life balance, smart people and interesting products",Limited career opportunities given size of company.
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,work with smart people laid back environment learned a lot.,last minute unplanned meetings can be a bit frustrating.
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"Culture, People, Experience, Mobility, Pace",Becoming a large corporation with the usual challenges
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,Goog knowledge of electrical feed for telecomunications,"A need to improve muy english level , but i have the necessary level to work."
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,loved everything about it. was a fun place to work,none everything was exeptional i had a great time
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"Lots of perks: free food, free gym, on site massages, great opportunities to learn about different areas of the business, excellent coworkers-a pleasure to work with most people at Google.","Work-life balance could be better. Certain projects seem understaffed. Lots of bureaucracy, which can be frustrating to some people. Not too many cons overall"
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,"Google provides an opportunity to work with super smart, engaged people on exciting, fast-moving projects that have a huge impact. The wonderful benefits don't hurt, either.","All the frustrations of working in a large, flat organization: especially if you're trying to get anything done cross-functionally, takes awhile to figure out how ""the world works"" and deal with navigating the organizational structure. Where I was in the organization, pace and rapid change of projects could be challenging at times."
23,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P23.htm,Smart people,Company is becoming bigger so there is lot of competition for projects and promotions.
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"Strong culture, lots of really smart people from whom you can learn a lot. Great resources, every aspect of company is innovative and doesn't settle for OK. Fun environment.","Big company, outside of your immediate team/department there isn't a strong sense of local community. It's hard to see impact importance of your work if you're in a large organization."
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,1. Good procedure,1. Not too high salary
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"Work with really smart, driven people. Product development and managers were top notch. I was able to move around to different teams and global offices every few years -- awesome!","There was a growing number of employees that were simply ""resting and vesting"" so it became discouraging for those of us who wanted to make an impact. Felt like it was becoming more about MBAs who know nothing about marketing taking over and ideas were becoming less and less creative. People were less willing to take a risk."
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,free snacks,Long hours
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"The work is interesting, and not tedious or boring. The expectations are not unreasonable. There is room to grow, ands expand ones skill set using the 20% time. Coworkers are amazing and one learns a lot. Perks are pretty awesome","It is hard to get noticed. The imposter syndrome is strong. Promotions require extraordinary work. It really pastas to be self motivating, and self promoting. You need to get decent per reviews from your co workers"
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"very fun place to work, lots of smart people","it was a lot of hard work, but thats expected"
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"it's generous to engineers, and more","much brain wash, and more"
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,"Good money, good people, good food. Everyone I've worked with at Google has been a pleasure to work with.","Working for such a large company means it takes longer to get anything done. As an iOS developer, Google does iOS development very differently from other companies. Traffic is a pain getting in and out of campus."
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,You can take it easy.,Job can be repetitive and boring. Nothing new to learn.
22,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P22.htm,good food and coffee free,annoying people hipsterish always wants to talk
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,Great to stay in google with open atmosphere,Do not have many opportunities to do something unique
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,"Bright and engaging people, amazing financial and non-financial benefits, healthy work life balance. Easily the biggest advantage of working at Google is the people; extremely intelligent, team oriented, and genuine.","Occasional long hours, high achieving culture with fast operations. On the sales/marketing side of the house, it's expected to be constantly connected to, and to have very fast TATs for asks, both client and internal."
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,Great benefits and international career opps.,Middle managment at sales psitions tends to be mediocre.
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,"The basics, free food, good benefits (but now most tech companies have the same benefits), a lot of good people.","No direction, guidance or training. It was literally sink or swim. The content of what we were working on was not interesting or challenging and when tried to shift to other projects, we were told that we could only do this one thing. Usually a good manager will help their employees find a project where they can build their strengths. I think they didn't really care if we left, but thought, ""hey we can always hire mo… Show More"
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,"Smart coworkers, open culture, many challenging problems, good compensation, many good benefits if you take advantage of them","Easy to coast, part of a large organism, can become institutionalized"
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,Great work environment and very much engineering focused,slow moving bureaucracy does not always react to change
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,"Lots of autonomy, fun place to work, talented co-workers",Long time for a hiring decision for MBA full-time and intern roles.
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,I'm a loyal worker.,No downsides to me thinking of work for this company.
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,"culture, people, benefits - 3 factors that contribute to the low attrition rate because employees enjoy the idea of coming to work and look forward to taking up new challenges",core values don't always trickle down due to pockets of bad middle management.
26,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P26.htm,You can achieve great balance between life and work.,The company is becoming slower.
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,"Security. Google is a safe bet. Innovation is paced though, as with any developed company. All my time was spent in Google for Work org, which was very different from greater Google and had poor leadership. Was inconsequential enough that greater Google hadn't yet taken notice, but I predict a big shake up soon.","Opportunity for vertical movement is scarce. Hiring practices have led to hiring candidates based on who has the best resume, rather than who is the best person for the job. Culture of ladder climbing slows down productivity and leads to a lot of people being stepped on."
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,Amazing benefits,Terrible place to commute to if you want to live in San Francisco
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,"Dynamic, fast-moving company",Need better communication between engineering and other departments/teams
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,It is a fun and exciting place for anybody to work with all the new and exciting things that they envint.,I would say that the only thing I can say would be a Con working for Google would be if you didn't work for them anymore.
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,"good work envir, loveit, free food, flexible work hours","pressure from managers, strict deadlines, no life for social"
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,So much fun. Great people,Nothing was really wrong. It was great.
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,"The perks are awesome, specifically the gourmet food served for breakfast/lunch/dinner 5 days a week. The luxury shuttles are the most comfortable way to make the commute from SF and the 401K/health/dental plans are top notch. Super smart people and lots of projects going on that are changing the world.",Google is now a large company so there's a fair amount of bureaucracy and processes in place which can slow things down. Promotions are harder to come by but this is natural for any company of this size. Google is heavily email-centric and so you better be ready for 200+ emails a day and sometimes an implicit expectation to be on email during off-hours.
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,"good experience, good people, good atmosphere, loved my co-workers, can be fun","hours varied, upper management can be tricky"
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,Great benefits. The best team I've ever worked with. Lots of team building opportunities.,"Mountain View centric. If you are remote, then your opinion is much less important. Some of the departments are very hierarchical."
41,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P41.htm,- Free Food!,"- Commute: 1.5 hours is alleviated by riding on the shuttle, but it is still 1.5 hrs."
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,It's fun you can do whatever you want. I work on !y own schedule so I have a lot of free time,"I think there are no cons here, unless I lied. And I don't wanna do that"
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,Smart engineers and brilliant computer science. Great facility. A rich assortment of on-campus perks. The meals. The visiting speakers. And the daily bus service helps tremendously.,"1) Inexperienced and bloated middle management. 2) The white badge vs red badge situation creates conflict within departments. In this employment model, an employee sits next to a contractor, both do the exact same work but the employee gets paid 2x as much and has a full benefits packages."
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"Good technology, great people and huge profit from ads",Some internal group (eg. corp-eng) has management that's not on par with the rest of the company.
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"They really care about your personal career path as well as your quality of life, so I got a really kind impression while I was an intern there. I also loved playing volleyball, and the Mountain View campus had great access to sand volleyball courts!",I don't really have any cons! Maybe the only con was that the food is too good and too plentiful so I gained about 7 lbs during my internship :(
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"co-operation, High salary, new technologies ... etc","very exhausted, less benefits ... etc"
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"Mentorship is baked into the internship program. My host was great, and we had weekly meetings to review feedback for each other.","I enjoyed my work but didn't feel like what I was doing was terribly important. I was also working on one of Google's smaller campuses, and there was no intern community there."
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,Its a good job with good school medical and dental benefits,A lot of tedious work and some off the people are not so great
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,I felt like the company was truly invested in me (and my professional development) and that the people around me genuinely appreciated my contributions.,I struggled with finding ways to progress my career and change verticals.
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"Cares about employees, self-starter culture","Sometimes too big and complicated to navigate, very inwardly focused"
40,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P40.htm,"The products are world-class, the company culture is amazing, and the people are some of the smartest people you'll know.","Like any organization, there are internal politics that need to be navigated. Some play this well, some don't. Making sure you align yourself on the right person's good side can be tricky."
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,"Best density of talent at any large company, their office productivity suite (e.g. gmail) is definitely the best, food is quite good, especially the coffee barista","Google is now a bloated, political organization. Unless you are a software engineer you will learn more elsewhere, and have greater upside at a Facebook or a start-up. HQs are in MTV, outside of there your career stagnates."
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,They do so much for the world. Amazing projects and initiatives taking place at the company.,You are not always part of those projects and initiatives.
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,"It is great to work with smart coworkers. It saves a lot of time in making things clear. Most of the time communication is efficient, expect when there is conflicts among senior leaders.",It is become bigger and layered. Most of the time you don't know which part you are working on within the huge system.
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,benefits (plus four more words),no option to work from remote office
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,- Talented Colleagues,- Getting big
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,"- The people you work with! No matter what team you work on, you're going to work with lovely, interesting, and overall brilliant colleagues. The work itself and your clients are interesting and constantly changing. There is also the added benefit of plenty of opportunities for role changes and location changes all around the world",- Work-life balance can vary significantly depending on what team you work on. Processes can be overly bureaucratic at times. The promotions process can be pretty opaque.
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,"great perks, great place to be","politics, process now means that the company moves more slowly that before"
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,Challenging status quo and building software for a better tomorrow.,"No need to change a thing, and stay the same."
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,"Great perks, smart people, good pay","So many politics, promotions based on popularity not aptitude."
39,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P39.htm,Justification to purchase tools for the work is quick and easy,Not many experienced hardware engineers from the industry
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"good atmosphere, team environment, hard work",there were no cons ! great job!
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"- nobody tells you what to do, you find your own problems and solve them",- poor middle management in sales
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,Google set the bar for what all companies should strive for regarding culture and benefits. But the true secret to Google's success is a management philosophy of hiring the best people and trusting them to do their own work without top down hierarchical direction.,"Google is very, very big. Because the size of the company is so vast it can sometimes be very difficult to get things done."
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"Very smart people and flexibility to choose your projects, to choose your research areas. Overall I think my coworkers are extremely well qualified for their job.","Internal code base is huge, it takes long time to get familiar with it. Promotion system is a bit flaky and is not refocused on impact rather than quality"
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,The salary is high; I couldn't make this much anywhere else.,"The company would like you to drink the Kool-Aid. I did in the beginning, and became disappointed by a lot of things. Now I look at Google as a big company that is doing it's best, and I do my best. I'm much happier now."
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"Overall Google is a great company with lots of benefits such as free food, gym, paid internet, cell phone, lots of vacation and free transportation.",The organization is very flat with lots of Type A personalities meaning that its pretty cut throat to move up.
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"Google has amazing people working there, and they are eager to help you learn as much as possible. The other benefits are just icing on the cake.","There are not that many women working at Google or in leadership positions there. This negatively affects the team dynamics, for both men and women. Women reading this - apply! Aim high! You can do it!"
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,Healthcare plan,Lack of people development
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,Awesome culture and co-workers. Really great work life balance.,None. Google was an amazing place to work!
38,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P38.htm,"Great perks, talented employees. Flexible hours, interesting projects - easy to move from team to team. Physical health prioritized with facilities on campus.","Takes a while to get things done because of the size of the company you need to make sure noone else is working on what you're working on, and even if they are you can still do it anyway if you think you're better at politics."
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Great benefits and company culture.,Lots of competition for positions and slow up-ward mobility
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Relaxing work environment.,Many teams with uninteresting projects.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,"* Google has, bar none, some of the best office schemes I've ever seen. Their conference room layouts make a lot of sense, and the designs and liveliness pouring through those walls were on another level.",A lot of the cons below are projections of my experience at Google. Do a TON of research on the role you'll be applying for. Find people on LinkedIn. Scour reddit. Learn as much as you possibly can about what you'll be doing to try and prepare for what's to come.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,"Entrepreneurial culture, very dynamic projects. The teams are made up of some of people with some of the most diverse backgrounds I have ever seen.",Google is obviously a large company so sometimes it's difficult to feel your individual work is making a difference in the larger scope.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Treat employees really well,Nothing
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Great People. Great Culture. Great Benefits.,Limited upward mobility in remote offices.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Good pay,Horrible systems
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Great opportunity for growth.,Felt I was always competing.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Work/life balance.,Gained 20lbs.
37,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P37.htm,Fun great excellent amazing outstan,Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Everything is great to work for google.,Pay sucks and management is not very good with people.
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,"Google speaks for itself. Great resources, best minds in the world. Flat organization with high degree of autonomy",Flat organization - leads to very autonomous environment.
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Excellent food and the location is good for many activities.,Public transportation is not very convenient
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Huge level of responsibility and interesting work,Commuting to Mt View on the bus
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Good communication in management,Extensive hiring process and long hours of work
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,"Lots of smart people, challenging work, and flexibility to move around to different teams.",Can be very stressful at first and work/life balance can be difficult (depending on the team).
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,"Amazing management, perks, food, fun, coworkers, atmosphere, it was just a wonderful place to work.","potential long hours depending on your time management, also requires lots of friendliness and networking which is great unless you're an introvert"
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Awesome place to work at.,No Opportunity to grow.
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,"Good compensation and benefits. Depending on the team, work can be interesting. Usually everybody on the team is smart.","Stress of the job can be high, especially if there is management turnover and frequent changes in priorities. Feeling like I have to compete with team mates."
36,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P36.htm,Food is very very good,Busy busy busy very busy
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,Amazing perks and benefits,Hard to get things done sometimes
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,One of the best companies you could ever hope to work for,I saw a lot of hierarchical nonsense/ the promotion process seems to be very draining
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,"Super smart people, lots of free stuff. Amazing to work at Google, just to realize it's not all that.","Workaholics, intense competition, constant game of thrones! Contractors are sort of a sub-class, make less money, have limited access to meetings, projects and facilities (for the same position)."
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,flexible works hours are the best,One is expected to deliver the best
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,"Great co-workers, managers and projects.",Can be bureaucratic at times due to the large size.
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,Huge infrastructure for employee benefits. Low risk. Work with smart people. Free food is convenient and healthy. Buses make the commute more tolerable. People usually given a high degree of independence and trust.,"Senior leadership basically full with old timers. One-size fits all process and lack of transparency for benefits, promotions, and salary can be frustrating. Cultures vary widely from team to team in terms of diversity/bias, expected work hours, or positive energy."
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,- high impact projects/teams,"- everyone is so smart, it's hard to stand out"
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,"Great benefits, and get to work with some brilliant folk.","After recent restructuring it will be difficult for people in the Alphabet companies to move about between projects, which will limit future opportunities. The interview process makes it difficult for good people to come in, outside of being acquired."
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,Free food free naps free massages cool and brilliant coworkers. Cool projects. Amazing campus. Shuttle buses. Interesting opportunities for career advancement,upper management doesn't take middle management seriously.
35,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P35.htm,Smart people: Hiring bar is very high.,Should work hard
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,Awesome people awesome culture awesome place to work free food,Too much work to do in a time
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"Amazing culture, smart people, great career opportunities, free food, benefits",Over qualified people could lead to lack of motivation at times
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"Challenging work, smart co-workers, less politics more work.",Not easy to rise up.
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,Working with intelligent and innovative people.,None that I can think of.
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"Fun, caring, and overall great environment.",Non-traditional sales roles that only use the complex AdWords platform
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"I got to work with a fabulous team with excellent dynamics, doing interesting work. The support for interns was definitely there, the perks were out of this world, and almost anyone was open for reaching out and grabbing a cup of coffee with.","You can end up feeling like an extremely minuscule part of the company, because the company is so large. I was definitely lucky and got a team that was top-notch and extremely welcoming to interns, but others might not be so fortunate. While my team dynamic was great, some other interns had less ideal experiences. Being at this internship can definitely spoil you for other places."
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,the pros are that it's google,the pros are that it's not microsoft
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"Culture, Benefits, workplace, research job",hard to show yourself among others to develop your career path
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,"Great colleagues, competitive pay, industry leading benefits, nimble for a large company. The company is pursuing very lofty goals and really leading the industry on a number of fronts. After 8 years, Google is still a great place to work and I can't imagine working for any other company. The only thing that could pull me away would be to start my own venture.",Employees are almost exclusively from top tier universities and privileged backgrounds. Relative lack of intellectual and cultural diversity.
34,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P34.htm,Amazing perks and benefits,Hard to get things done sometimes
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,"Great food, perks, lifestyle. Really smart people to learn from. Lots of cool projects to contribute to.","Can get lost in the organization if you're not careful, some products seem to lack focus."
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,"Colleagues are smart, motivated, and nice. They keep me coming back. Vacation policy is pretty generous for US.",The commute to Mountain View from San Francisco is horrific. Even if you work with people on the campus you may never see them due to sprawl and traffic.
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,Wow I couldn't believe how amazing it was to work at Google. Amazing.,It does get boring sometimes doing the same thing over and over again and it takes a long time to get things done.
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,"Good food, good people, good position and good techniques.",I think they need more programmers to make every part of Google useful
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,"Free food, adventure, proximity to ""Google""","dangerous, zero growth, time away from home, no benefits"
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,"Great work-life balance. Very friendly and cooperative colleagues, partly due to the way we hand out promotions. Internally rather transparent and management seems to listen to what we want.","There are many overqualified and hardworking people here. Just hard work alone will not get you anywhere. You need to source for good projects, work hard and smart in order to have decent career advancement."
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,Many smart people and nice people. People are very understanding and helpful. Lots of opportunity to learn if you actually make the effort to do so.,Since it is such a big company you can also get lost very easily. There are lots of custom proprietary tools that some people at Google only know how to use. And obviously that knowledge would be useless outside of Google. Understanding the interluding concepts is on the other hand useful.
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,Everything is very very good,I don't really have cons.
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,This is one of the most inspiring companies I've been involved with - they have a mission to change the way children are educated and a clear vision for how to help,The hands on model requires lots of work and is challenging to scale. Keeping all the students engaged and growing is a big responsiblity and requires constant vigilance.
33,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P33.htm,Great experience! learned a lot with a lot of activities!,hard for a returning full time offer
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,"Intellectual environment, fast paced and ambitious.","Increasingly red tape gets in the way, and difficult to advance or change roles."
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,Brilliant people to work with and fantastic culture,"If you want a fast-paced job, you need to work to find a team that works like that"
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,"People, perks, energy, and environment.",Duplicative efforts / often reinventing the wheel.
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,"-99% of the people you work with are brilliant, but are also not jerks","It's a big company, so you have to work harder to find opportunities to build new things. The nice thing is, the new things you build are built on top of the work of tons of brilliant people, so whatever you end up making will be very specialized and probably pretty awesome."
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,"culture, products, impact, people, fun","large company, commute, spoiled me"
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,Brilliant people organizing information. Doesn't get much better.,"Keeps getting bigger, and adopting thing that big companies use - like stricter budgets"
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,Good food and amazing ppl to work with,"Too far from the city, nothing to do in MTV. Hard to do extra projects as a contractor."
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,Lot's of interesting projects to tackle.,Very little structure with a lot of moving parts.
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,it was a really rich and positive experience,it has a lot of people working on a lot of projects so it's hard to make a decision
32,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P32.htm,Incredibly diverse company with great people tries to take over the world of information!,"Incredibly diverse company hires and acquires way too many mediocre people, bad managers prevail."
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"good experience, good people, good atmosphere, loved my co-workers, can be fun","hours varied, upper management can be tricky"
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"Coding workflow and tools are streamlined and integrated, allowing you to focus on codin, solving problems, and working with team members.",You usually work on technically fairly small things because it's a giant company with a lot of resources.
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,1) Open atmosphere and friendly coworkers,Work could be stressful in some groups. I sometimes heard coworkers in some other groups talking about working overtime to get assignment done.
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,I think it is fun and easy,Not really any cons about working here
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"Amazing team mates, great perks. Very fair in all processes",Nothing really. You need to compete very hard as everyone seems to be brilliant!!
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"great compensation, great perks, brilliant coworkers. The food there is amazing, great leisure time and freedom to pursue my own interests.",the privacy agreements. engineering sector is dominated by asians who tend to ignore people outside their race.
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"Great perks, strong team in NYC","Pretty competitive, lack of opportunities for full-time as a contractor"
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"money, money, money, money, money. and the free food. free trainings. money. I would have quit a long time ago were it not for the money.","the politics, the pressure, the stress, the backstabbing, cutthroat colleagues, the lack of transparency, constant reorgs, lack of job security, the disposability of employees, lies from management. Human Resources team is a ship of fools."
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,Amazing people to work with and learn from.,"None that I can think off. Well, maybe a long commute from the city."
42,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P42.htm,"Culture has a noticeable focus on being nice to one another, get to work on exciting things","Has gained a bit of bureaucracy around actually shipping software, but not too bad, and most of it is intended to prevent wild, west coding."
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,clean environment nice work space,"too much work, lot of pressure"
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,You can learn a lot from internal materials if you want to. Great culture.,Salary is fair. Work is not challenging enough. Experiences vary in different teams. Some teams are good while some teams are not.
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,"Well-paid, fun, everyone is friendly, work as much you want and can do, off site visits, it's Google!","too many people, imposter-syndrome inducing, no symmetry is prohect complexity among interns on different teams, it's Google!"
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,"great benefits, fun environment, job stability, working on amazing projects with smart people that impact the whole world","HUGE bureaucracy, with a company this big there is specialized roles and process for everything. Definitely not an ""intimate"" community and can take forever to get approvals for what seems the smallest thing."
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,Ability to switch between multiple groups. Never gets boring.,Management can sometimes get in the way of you doing things.
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,challenging but satisfying. Peer review makes you smile at others all the time,Peer review makes you think why others are smiling at you all the time.
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,Amazing work environment to work in,No cons come to mind
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,Great benefits and good pay,"It is highly competitive, with many very smart engineers."
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,"they care about their employees. it's a great place to work. ca might be a better environment, though.","some projects are more advanced than i'd like. however, i still love the expereience at google"
43,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P43.htm,"Nice place, cool team members","Too large company, and you have to learn quickly"
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,Smartest collection of co-workers I've experienced,"Your experience may vary depending on team, manager etc."
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,"So much energy, very rewarding. Google is amazingly open and flexible. Work life balance can be what you want it to be on most teams. (Some teams are in more competitive sectors and require more crazy hours all the time - but very few of them).","There are a lot of people working at Google, so the quality of your colleagues really varies."
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,"The pay is great, the benefits are second to none. Dev hardware is insane, production resources are seemingly unlimited.",Competition is fierce among peers. Middle-management is hit-or-miss. The pace is grueling and relentless.
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,Great exposure to the world's best technology,Turned into a big company
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,"Great environment, smart people, leadership is open and upfront, launch and iterate is real and helpful","Some of the work can be rather mundane, it is an advertising company at the core"
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,Amazing work environment to work in,No cons come to mind
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,"Benefits, variety of work, high learning curve","Hard to move inside the org, very political and given its huge size it is much harder to grow in this company than elsewhere. Salaries might be amazing or terrible, and it all depends on the country, its taxes and your level in the company unfortunately, not the job."
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,"Own Google Corporate credit card, top of the line cell phone, tablet combo,$65 a day food allowance, free monthly rental cars, travel to places ordinarily wouldn't be able to travel to, pay","Constant travel, devices shut down sometimes"
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,work with great people there.,work life balance is not good
44,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P44.htm,Simply a great company that treats employees very well,Everyone is so busy that it is hard to connect or make friends at work
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,"The people are among the smartest, most driven co-workers. This made it a fantastic experience.","Given the size, it's challenging to move up in role and sometimes hard to feel your direct impact on the business."
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,currently think out of none,very good company to join
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,Google has excellent menu choices. The salary is high for a new grade. They have a very nice working environment.,You do not get your own office. When you work it is mostly an open floor plan.
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,This is an excellent growth opportunity company.,There are no major complaints.
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,"Free food, nice work environment and nice salary. And lots of opportunity to be exposed to new technology. And everyone is friendly","tedious work, do the dame work everyday. Do not feel important in this company, the company runs the same way, with or without me."
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,Perks and the culture of the company,"As a contractor, there is a pretty clear hierarchical thing working there. Some conferences and info are limited, and no freedom to do what you want."
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,"Awesome perks, I am happy whenever I work on site.",More diversity would be nice
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,Good company. Good benefits. Smart people,Big company. Political. A lot of red tape
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,Benefits are amazing.,"Little autonomy to get stuff done, difficult to get promotion, Henry Ford model of repetition being deployed all over"
45,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P45.htm,"I really enjoy working with my current team! Google, as everyone know, is a very innovative place and people thrive to invent new thing every day! I am glad to be part of the such successful company.","I haven't yet seen any so far, especially in my roles."
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,Gain in-depth technical skills working with highly competent and friendly coworkers.,The work can be somewhat monotonous and transactional depending on your specialization
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,Treated well and as an equal,All the workplace benefits are needed when you spend 10+ hours a day at the office frequently
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,"Smart people, hard working, well known","Long travel, long hours, everything you would expect"
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,Complete and powerful tool chain,Too crowded in the MTV headquarters
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,"support, perks, culture, team, learning opportunities",intern program could be better organzied for the SMB teams
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,-not being micromanaged,-it's already big so it's difficult to contribute a large amount as a lower level person
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,"Food, laundry, gym, bikes... Free? Fun and challenging",Contractors do feel not as welcomed
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,The resident at the facility was very nice. My Co-workers were also nice. There was good teamwork even though we were short staff.,"The place smell like mold, the pay isn't enough, they tell you that your full-time and only put you on the schedule 1 or 2 days a week. The management sucks and their very unorganized."
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,"Great benefits and with okay salary for business side as well. Just a little bit down from management consulting firms. Once you are in the Google network, it will be easy for you to find jobs elsewhere too and the connections won't die after you leave.",Could become a little bit political around promotion as most big companies. Job mobility can be attained around Mountainview but would be harder in other regions.
46,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P46.htm,Great place to work/perks/culture/fun/learning and very smart ambitious people to work with. Great name on your resume,has become very political/career growth is much slower/comp is not great
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,"perks, food, gym, culture, love, food, massage, location, fun, beers, events, working with young people and people that are smart",sometimes people come to google and think they're better than everyone else and that's not the spirit of google. sometimes people get self entitled and it stinks
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,"Decent pay and benefits, good bonuses and stock grants. Some really inspiring and talented coworkers. Learning opportunities. Some travel if you want it.",I second the person who said Google protects bad managers. It seems like the more talented people leave and the less talented people get promoted (it's more about politics than talent).
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,"Wants their employees to be happy, will do anything and everything they can do make this happen.","Large company, inherent bureaucracy, takes a lot of effort for changes to happen quickly."
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,All expenses paid trip to Google HQ in Mountain View California,Conducting a lot of events on campus
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,Great Working Environment. Great Perks,Managers Should give more feedback to temps.
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,Benefits are as good as advertised. Company really does view its employees as its largest asset and takes care of them.,Changing the way things are done takes hard work and lots of time. Burnout is common but not a sign of weakness.
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,"Excellent working environment, Great food from breakfast to dinner and free transport.",Slow growth in terms of promotions.
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,"It had a fun work environment, and people are amazing.","Was not working on a project I particularly liked, and I saw that it can be difficult to move around in the company"
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,Competitive compensation. World renown perks. Very smart coworkers. Impactful projects.,"Working in Mountain View. Living nearby is undesirable, but living someplace desirable means a 90+ minute commute."
47,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P47.htm,Awesome work life really got to enjoy myself and didnt feel like i was under to much pressure.,There wasnt really any cons that I can talk about It was overall a great experience and im glad I got to be apart of it.
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,Work own schedule which is pretty good.,"Not enough pay, but I could get better at marketing."
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"Sense of pride because you represent Google on your college campus, a lot of swag and some incentives. Good for making connections",For this job I don't think there are any cons.
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"Awesome perks (meals, snacks, coffee, events), great mentorship, work-life balance point, supportive community, and just an overall great internship experience.",There are limited teams in the NY office
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"Good Salary and benefits and emerging technology that gives good work experience. Work environment is good, and there are some employee discount perks.",Upper management tends to micromanage and they keep adding responsibilities to job expectations. Proper training is generally not provided.
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"Google has great amenities. You get free food, massages, gym. Great snacks and drinks. Friendly and smart co workers. More recruiters contact you.",Your happiness depend a lot on your team dynamic and manager some managers can be very pushy or bring bad work culture from their previous employment.
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"collaboration, open culture, continuously challenging","lack of leadership direction, Lazslo's book is great reading but not all the concepts are really fully practiced at Google"
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"extremely smart co-workers, a lot of resources, excellent perks and working environment, modern internal tools, an innovative and smart environment. if you have an opportunity to work there, there's really little reason not to try it for a few years at least. if you thrive, you thrive, if you don't, it looks great on the resume. one of Google's main attractions as an employer is that it's really a win-win to work the… Show More","overall Google's focus is on defending their cash cow; their other activities almost seem like they're just trying to keep talent off the market and away from competitors. that means if you're an engineer, you'll have a great time. but if you're a product-oriented person, caring about market success, customer satisfaction, etc, you'll get frustrated after a few years. top management is very split in it's priorities, … Show More"
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,Freedom for self-motivated people to succeed. Upper management values ideas from individuals. Highly qualified and motivated co-workers. Best place to work.,Don't expect lots of hand-holding from management and team leader.
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"The benefits are what you would dream of. Never pay for the dr again, eat anythign and everything you want. Smart people. Everything there just kind of 'works.' None of those annoying dead ends that other companies have.","The sales org is huge. You can easily project your career growth, or lack there of. Very easy to look at your role today and map out the 24-36 month promotion cycle, with minimal fluctuation. Every year or so, some new person in upper management comes in wanting to make a name for themselves and re-orgs, which is a fancy way to say they just shuffle the deck, everyone is confused for a month or so, then people just g… Show More"
48,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P48.htm,"Lots of innovation, exciting projects, very smart people to collaborate with, mostly good work/life balance","Career evolution can be non-existant, so much depends on how good your manager is."
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"exciting, awesome, critical thinking, i really like it","working hard, too much work sometimes"
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,It is very cool. That's all I have to say,There are not any cons
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"Amazing campus, food was wonderful, and the people are super friendly. I never wanted to leave",I have no cons to add
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"Lots of innovation, exciting projects, very smart people to collaborate with, mostly good work/life balance","Career evolution can be non-existant, so much depends on how good your manager is."
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,Free food amazing perks and overall good pay and benefits and amazing challenges.,Its a big company so its sometimes slow and sometimes very fast paced which can be time consuming
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"perks, salary, benefits, brand name, prestige","over rated, boring, hierarchical, political"
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"Awesome run. Great People. Managing ""bigness"" as well as can be expected",Company is getting big and lost some of the original culture.
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"The most obvious reasons, the ones you always hear, are absolutely true: Food, massage, freedom, games. You're spoiled, with good reason, and yes it really does help to increase productivity.",They've grown.
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"Great perks and benefits, decent compensation, brilliant people.","Awful bureaucracy, poor management support."
49,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P49.htm,"Very relaxed work place. Perks include great free food and drinks basically everywhere you go, and great coworkers. They give interns real projects as well.",There really aren't too many downsides. Maybe one would be that everyone else there is also smart and it is hard to really stand out as being great.
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Good Training, lots of exposer, mentorship",Relationship driven environment which some times hurt people who are result oriented and doesn't like to gossiping around. I have seen when top performer let go.
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Great place to work, great perks.","Poor chances for promotion,"
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"They have interesting technology. The food is nice. You will probably like your colleagues. There is a lot of smart, driven people here. You will be recruited from other companies pretty heavily.","The actual work... it will probably suck. Don't be fooled. You will probably get told very little about your role before you start. Then you will spend a lot of time ramping up in your job, drinking from a hose, and one Sunday evening discover that the fit is bad and dread Monday morning. All you can do is suck it up, smile, find the good in your job or try to find a new role. Good luck with finding a new job in Goog… Show More"
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,There a good company and u will love what u do,There are not many Cons in this business so thanks everyone
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"No micromanagement, employees are empowered.","Commute is tough, if you don't like shuttles."
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Culture, compensation & benefit, management, products.",promotion is much slower and harder than other places.
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Google has very good benefit including health insurance, 401k and free breafast, lunch, dinner.","I can't think of any con of Google. If you have the chance, please come to Google."
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,Typical Tech Company with benefits,Not much to do here
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Great perks--food is amazing and everywhere, bus service allows me to work while commuting, lots of on-campus amenities.","Preventative-only health insurance for contractors, which is effectively no insurance at all. I had to buy my own."
50,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P50.htm,"Incredibly intelligent people who are willing to share their knowledge with you. Great food, lots of opportunity to gain new skills, particularly if you're a new grad.","There should be more room for contractors to convert, especially if they have shown exceptional performance."
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,"Good perks, free food, pool/gym","High cost of living (Mountain View, CA)"
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,"Great perks (food, gym, etc). Opportunities to transfer roles, transfer internationally etc. Respectful managers & team members.",Big company (it can be hard to feel you are making a difference for the company).
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,Great company to work for.,Work life balance can be an issue.
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,"Amazing benefits, co-workers, and insurance. There are opportunities for advancement and ability to travel worldwide.",It takes time to get promoted and there are always tons of emails to check!
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,Compensation and benefits,It's big... really big
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,If you love computers then there is no better company than this. I got spoiled there because after the intership ended I then realized how bad other companies are,I can not think of any. you can do anything you wish as long as you get your job done. nobody looking over you making you nervous
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,Great work and environment nice location and competitive salary,"Nothing bad, free food and nice working culture"
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,"Great place to start a career or work for a while. You learn a ton of best practices, work in the great company which is Google, enjoy all of the amazing Google benefits, and get to work with awesome people. Also, it's a wonderful brand to be associated with, and you constantly learn innovative ideas and mindsets (especially if you go to TGIF).","Large corporation, so it has typical big company problems- hard to have career growth, promotions are difficult to get, decent amount of bureaucracy, you are one among many people, etc."
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,Great work culture. Driven individuals. Fun place to work.,The office space is outdated. Could use new radio equipment.
51,https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Google-Reviews-E9079_P51.htm,-Great experience,Sometimes loaded with work and extra hours will be required. You must not get behind or you will definitely have to put in extra hours.