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Very fun and the workload is interesting.
Visual Data Specialist II (Current Employee), Bothell, WA – March 29, 2013
Google is an awesome company with free lunch and tons of fun stuff around the building to do.
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productive great work place
Data Center Tech (Former Employee), Atlanta, GA – March 28, 2013
Great team
learned Linux
great work environment
great work hours
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Research position
QA Engineer, iOS Applications (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – March 25, 2013
Pros: services brought to the campus.
Cons: co-workers expect you to do with minimum technology allocations, and speak in android / linux format.
A typical day I do my job, report on doing my job, show someone how I do my job, then meet about a new job that needs doing. I go over my co-worker's work, then research some Google stuff. The hardest part is being less interested in making money, and more interested in providing superfluous value for information consumers.

Co-workers are so unhappy, – more... they speak of company goals--at lunch! – less
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productive and fun work place
Sr.QA (Current Employee), Mountain View, CA – March 22, 2013
great place to work...
great place to work...
great place to work...
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Great
Manager (Current Employee), Mountain View – March 21, 2013
Pros: benefits
Cons: takes time to develop processes of growing company that don't slow down innovation.
Google is perfect for someone completely energized by innovation.
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Management is alright needs work.
Quality Control Operator (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – March 20, 2013
Co workers are fun and very helpful to work with although management needs some improvement.
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Professional atmosphere
Quality Control Operator (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – March 12, 2013
Pros: own pace level, good time schedule
Cons: repetitive tasks constantly
This job was fairly satisfying. The culture and people made it a more workable environment. I learned working as a team here and aligning yourself among others will put you in a better situation. On a daily basis, your focus is on completing tasks constantly for 8 hours. I think that was the hardest part of seeing the same thing over and over. Beside – more... that, the job can easily be adapted to, – less
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Streetview Operations Lead
STREET VIEW OPERATIONS LEAD (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – March 11, 2013
Pros: free lunch, ping pong table, snacks, flexible hours
Cons: no healthcare are a contractor
The everyday life at Google seems peaceful enough. There are times when things get hectic especially when a StreetView car has an issue. The support of the whole team is fantastic and the drivers were great.
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Google is Productive and fun working place
Associate Research Analyst (Current Employee), Gurgaon, Haryana – March 9, 2013
Pros: free breakfast, free lunch, free brunch, free snacks, free cab facilities, no dress code. etc
Management is good at google, every thing is in a systematic manner.
Co-workers are very supportive. One saying is very correct- "Every team member combines to become a good team and a good team leads to healthy competition. Every co-worker has an ability to help others which helps in increasing the productivity along with increased efficiency.
The – more... most enjoyable part of the job is that there is no burden like keep on working whole day. One can plan her/his work according to the different projects and can work accordingly. – less
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Freedom and flexibility
EMEA Creative Technologist (Current Employee), London – March 1, 2013
Pros: free food, free massages, free gym, free library, amazing training sessions on google products, chance to work from anywhere in the building.
Cons: i would like more direction from the management. a bit disorganised.
Nobody really checks the status of your daily work and you feel free to work according to your timings.
You are measured and rewarded if at the end you have achieved your goals.
You are not expected to sit and work from your desk the whole day: the building is so big and there are so many common areas, that you are free to move around and find your – more... own spot to concentrate. – less
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This was actually temp labor under Randstad. Good if you're desperate. Claustrophobically micro-managing middle management schemes in play.
QA Technician (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – February 27, 2013
Pros: free food and drink, ping pong and foosball
Cons: tyranically banal. not for people who don't take to routine very well.
40 hour work week. 8 hours in front of a computer. Typeset and format e-books. That's about all there is to it. day in, day out.
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Rated one of the best places to work for a reason
Google Apps Strategist (Current Employee), Austin, TX – February 20, 2013
Pros: working at scale - you can have a global impact in almost any area, getting to think big, strong technical peers, highly educated, exceptionally skilled workforce.
Cons: allot of the key product support has been outsourced to vendors.
As an employee, you really feel like the company shares wealth among all their employees. The work you do here is high impact and they're very open to letting you figure out new ways to do things.
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Best place to get your creative juices flowin
Research Participant Recruiter (Current Employee), Mountain View – February 15, 2013
Google is surrounded by intelligent talented people who can be great fun to work with. With so many perks and great campus, its hard to feel stressed and bored at work.
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Google
Freelance Audio Engineer (Current Employee), New York, NY – February 15, 2013
Pros: people, location, facilities
Cons: can't think of any
I am a freelance engineer there, so my opportunities are not as consistent as I might like them to be. I've been told that my work is appreciated and is respected. The people I work with are laid back, yet professional when it comes time to get the job done. I enjoy those managing the productions because they allow you to handle your position. Trust – more... is key to me and I feel it is the key to any success a business achieves. – less
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Productive challenging yet incredibly fun environment
Decision Support Intern Analyst (Former Employee), Seattle, WA – February 14, 2013
Pros: awesome free food !!!
Great internship experience. Learned a lot in terms of applying statistics to real world problems that can scale to humongous dimensions.
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working is my hobbies
Manager of Parking Attendant (Former Employee), San Francisco, CA – February 5, 2013
A motivated, energetic and outgoing individual with strengths in hospitality and parking management seeking a position in a reputed organization
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A perfect placeholder position
Quality Rater in Italian (Current Employee), telecommute – February 5, 2013
Pros: make your own schedule
Cons: fixed length contract no opportunities to grow
ad quality rating at google is a good way to keep something on your resume, earn a little extra money and keep an open schedule.
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Excellent organization to work
GIS Representative (Former Employee), Hyderabad,India – February 4, 2013
I enjoyed each and every day in my job with google maps.It was an great memorable experience with my co-workers.
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Test market an amazing experience
Portland Business Specialist (Former Employee), Portland, OR – January 30, 2013
Pros: the people, the pay, the job, the management
Cons: i'm not still doing it.
I was working for a company called V.S. Advertising selling DirecTV. The parent company, Smart Circle, signed a contract with Google to do a test market for a new product Google wanted to unveil called Google HotPot.

Out of all the reps nationwide I was one of 3 that was chosen to work for Google.

The market was originally supposed to be 3 weeks long, – more... and then turned into a 2 month test. The sales/marketing team I was a part of met and surpassed out goals, but it seemed the accounting gurus at Google decided the program wasn't financially feasible.

Google was an amazing company to work for, and relied on the reps to design and implement our end of the campaign. We were given our goals and a deadline and told to get it done. There was little to no guidance from above, as it was the first time Google has ever done a face to face marketing campaign. – less
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Productive and fun workplace and culture. Ping pong table and Odwalla galore!
Randstad Contractor (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – January 30, 2013
Pros: free lunches
Cons: short breaks
Google was an amazing place to work. The atmosphere and friendliness of everyone there far exceeded any place I've ever worked at. This was definitely an experience I would recommend.
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