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sadi zahira
4.4
  • #14 in Banking & financial services
  • 100 - 500 employees

Google Reviews

Based on surveyed graduates working at Google. Read on to get an insider’s view on life as a graduate.
4.4
Based on 102 reviews

Pros & Cons

  • Working within a talented team to tackle challenging problems.
  • The company culture is amazing. It feels like a family due to all the events and dinners the company sets up.
  • The ability to work on challenging problems with super friendly and smart people combined with an awesome outside of work culture.
  • Great culture.
  • Lots of responsibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to work overseas for a period of time.
  • People here are incredibly smart and always switched on so it can sometimes be intimidating.
  • You are given a huge amount of responsibility from the first day and the fast pace means that you need to work really hard (but your efforts are compensated).
  • High paced work environment can be tiring.
  • Can get intense at times.

What Insiders Say

8.1
Career Prospects
8.1
Career Prospects
Pretty solid if you do well.
9.0
Corporate Social Responsibility
9.0
Corporate Social Responsibility
Several charities sponsored donating to food drives, reading initiatives, etc. Hosts in house events teaching school students what we do and letting them try it out in simulations. Teaching coding and robotics to students and teachers.
9.3
Culture
9.3
Culture
Structure is pretty flat with not a lot of defined hierarchy, although in practice more experienced traders will likely get their ideas prioritised over others. The culture is generally pretty collaborative, relaxed, and people are happy to let their hair loose outside work.
6.9
Diversity
6.9
Diversity
Meritocratic hiring.
8.8
Satisfaction
8.8
Satisfaction
My work changes drastically day to day depending on what features I am working on. The people I work with change every day and my role requires a hands-on approach a lot of the time.
8.5
Management
8.5
Management
Extremely satisfied, they're super accessible, constantly give you feedback on how to improve, and really make an effort to see you succeed.
9.6
Office Work Environment
9.6
Office Work Environment
Open plan office in Sydney, dress code is very relaxed, I wear what I used to wear to uni.
9.0
Recruitment
9.0
Recruitment
It's long and tough, but the interviewers are keen to see you do well and give tips here and there. They also give great feedback on how you went. Generally problem solving questions, with numerical skills also being tested. Brush up on mental arithmetic, be able to explain what you're thinking when solving problems, that way the interviewer can see what you're doing, as they'll help you out a bit if they think you're going down the wrong direction.
9.0
Salary
9.0
Salary
It's about as good as it gets for a grad. There's breakfast in the office, catered dinner if staying back late, accommodate you while looking for a place if moving to Sydney, travel overseas, a huge variety of drinks in the fridge, the list goes on...
9.4
Training
9.4
Training
All new trading and technology employees undertake the company's in-house global traineeship program which is spread across 2 of the global offices. It is hugely valuable to learning both the relevant skills and also the company specific systems and processes.
7.3
Work Hours
7.3
Work Hours
The company is quite flexible but it is very common for most employees to stay for quite long hours - there is no requirement but it is common.
4.6
Sustainability
4.6
Sustainability
We mainly work with computers. We can't really do much for the environmental footprint of our work.