Google

United States of America

Founded
1998
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Ticker
GOOG
Employees
190,820 (December 31, 2025)
Website
google.com

Alphabet is the parent company of Google and reported about $402.8 billion of revenue for fiscal 2025, mostly from Search, YouTube and other advertising. Advertising accounted for about $294.7 billion of that total. Alphabet had 190,820 employees at December 31, 2025.

What Google does

Google Services is the larger of the two Google segments, with about $342.7 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025. It spans ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Google Maps, Google Play, Search and YouTube. Google Cloud added about $58.7 billion that year from infrastructure, platform services and Workspace sold to businesses. Ventures outside Google, including the self-driving unit Waymo, are reported together as Other Bets. Headquarters are in Mountain View, California. The fiscal 2025 annual report places most offices and data centers in Asia, Europe and North America. Engineering postings live on October 13, 2026 named teams such as Borg, Filestore, Cloud Networking, Google TV and Google Health Labs.

Where Google hires

Two Bay Area campuses dominate. Mountain View and Sunnyvale together account for 4,631 of the 8,196 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) that Google LLC submitted in calendar 2025. Cities with 50 or more filings in 2025:

  • Mountain View, CA: 2,620
  • Sunnyvale, CA: 2,011
  • New York, NY: 885
  • Kirkland, WA: 508
  • Seattle, WA: 366
  • San Francisco, CA: 317
  • San Bruno, CA: 291
  • Austin, TX: 188
  • Chicago, IL: 108
  • Cambridge, MA: 95
  • San Jose, CA: 93
  • Atlanta, GA: 89
  • Los Angeles, CA: 60
  • Pittsburgh, PA: 59
  • Durham, NC: 53
  • Boulder, CO: 50

The careers site, viewed October 13, 2026, also names data center sites such as Council Bluffs, The Dalles and Lenoir. Its Canadian offices are Kitchener-Waterloo, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Software Engineer III postings that day included roles in Warsaw, Singapore and Tokyo.

Job titles and levels you will see

Plain Software Engineer appears on 4,982 of the 8,196 LCAs filed in 2025, about 61%. Product and program roles form the second tier: Product Manager (192), Technical Program Manager (180) and Program Manager (165). Research Scientist (180) and Data Scientist (147) lead the research side. Customer-facing technical roles include Customer Engineer (80) and Solutions Consultant (75). Leveled engineering titles are rare in the 2025 filings, with 61 for Senior Software Engineer and 44 for Staff Software Engineer.

Postings live on October 13, 2026 put the level in the title, using Software Engineer II, Software Engineer III, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer and Principal Engineer. The team follows the level, as in "Software Engineer III, Borg". One Software Engineer III role asked for a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience and 2 years of software development, or 1 year with an advanced degree.

Workforce and hiring patterns

LCAs submitted by Google LLC fell from 9,359 in calendar 2024 to 8,196 in calendar 2025, about 12% lower. Mountain View saw the largest drop, from 3,019 filings in 2024 to 2,620 in 2025. New York filings went from 1,073 in 2024 to 885 in 2025.

Washington's Employment Security Department received a Google WARN notice on August 5, 2026. It covers 52 workers at various locations in the state. The permanent layoffs begin September 6, 2026.

Good to know before you apply

  • Google's hiring page says the process typically takes about 6 to 8 weeks.
  • You can apply to up to three jobs in any rolling 30-day window.
  • Some candidates take the Google Hiring Assessment before interviews. AI tools are not allowed during interviews.
  • Cover letters are optional. Every candidate for a role is scored on the same rubrics, with no brainteasers.
  • Use the threads below to ask what the Hiring Assessment and rubric-scored interviews looked like for a given team.

Profile researched by RedKiosk. Updated October 2026.