Google Senior Software Engineer reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(1,546 total reviews)
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Sundar Pichai

63% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Google with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,546 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Google is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I have something to compare with. This is the place where you can spend life working on interesting problems, and picking the team where you want to work.

Cons

None. I mean it. It is a corporation now, but still most of the things are very very reasonable

3.0
Jun 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Perks are great and salaries are competitive. You get to work with very talented people and learn a lot. It rarely gets boring. Working hours are very flexible. Its still a engineering driven company, so great place for engineers.

Cons

Long working hours are a norm, work/life balance is not encouraged. Career growth at higher levels is hard if you are not in US. The performance review process is very complicated and almost a game that you need to learn to play. Its not just about what you did, and how important it was, but there are 20 other dimensions by which the work is evaluated which no one understands in the end. They claim its fair, but compared to other companies I have seen its not.

4.0
May 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Amazing people, learning opportunities and perks. Interesting own culture you can learn a lot from. Every programmer should experience working here.

Cons

As hard as they work at cutting through bureaucracy, it remains a large company with all the problems that gives. If you're the kind of person that likes to just get things done instead of guiding your project through the companies processes, you may get frustrated.

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