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Google Headquarters & offices · Mountain View, California
Google · Mountain View, California
Bay View, the first campus Google built itself — and in London, an office with a garden on the roof.
The Googleplex, the new Bay View campus, offices around the world and the garage in Menlo Park where it began — then pay by level. Numbers from Alphabet's filings and Google's official pages.
- 61,814 → 190,820people, 2015 → 2025
- $310,826median employee pay
- 35 : 1CEO-to-median pay ratio
- $2.1Mrevenue per employee
Sources: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · about.google · Google Careers job postings
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THE NEWEST OFFICES · BAY VIEW & PLATFORM 37
The first campus Google built itself — and a 300-metre “landscraper” in London
Bay View, opened in 2022 next to the Googleplex, is the first campus Google designed and built itself; Charleston East followed. In London, Platform 37 at King's Cross opened in 2026 with a garden on the roof.
- Bay View (2022)
- Charleston East
- Design: BIG + Heatherwick Studio
- Platform 37, London (2026)
Mountain View: Bay View, Gradient Canopy and the Googleplex
Google offices around the world
Facts: Google video “The first campus built by Google | Bay View and Charleston East” (2022) · eciffo office records. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each photo.
Mountain View
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 |
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K cover · See them on the map ↓
Source: Google (Bay View video, 2022) · eciffo office records · about.google
Office tour videos
Benefits and pay extras (United States)
Listed on a 2026 Senior Software Engineer posting.
Postings list “+ bonus + equity + benefits”.
Google says it aims to give Googlers and their loved ones world-class benefits.
Google bikes on the Mountain View campus.
Source: Google Careers postings and benefits page. Google's detailed U.S. benefit numbers (leave, 401(k) match) are not shown on its public benefits page, so we leave them out.
What keeps people at Google, in Google's words
The CEO's 2025 pay was 35 times the median employee's — the smallest ratio of the companies profiled on eciffo.
A 2026 Senior Software Engineer posting lists a 15% bonus target on top of base pay.
Google postings list base salary “+ bonus + equity + benefits”.
Google has work councils and employee representation where the law requires it.
The famous colored Google bikes for getting around Mountain View.
Started in a Menlo Park garage owned by Susan Wojcicki.
Source: Alphabet Proxy statement 2026 · Form 10-K 2025 · Google Careers postings · about.google
Who works here
Alphabet employees (Dec 31, 2025)
growth since 2015 (61,814)
spent on capital in 2025, mostly technical infrastructure
work councils where required
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025 (employees, capex) and 2016 (job split — the last year Alphabet published one)
Pay at Google
Alphabet-wide. The CEO earned 35 times this amount ($10.9 million).
Source: Alphabet Proxy statement 2026
Source: Google Careers postings 115652162783978182 and 133750920407065286 (2026). Senior posting adds a 15% bonus target; equity and benefits on top.
Google doesn't publish pay by age. Pay ranges in job postings are the closest official number.
Compare Google with: Apple · Meta · Microsoft
Office history: from a garage to a campus it built itself
- 1998 A garage in Menlo Park
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met at Stanford, incorporated Google in August 1998 and set up in a garage in suburban Menlo Park owned by Susan Wojcicki — 232 Santa Margarita Avenue.
Source: about.google, “Our story” · street address from the photo’s Wikimedia Commons caption
232 Santa Margarita Ave, Menlo Park, 2011 · Jordiipa / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2000s The Googleplex, Mountain View
Google “eventually moved to its current headquarters” in Mountain View: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, the address on every Alphabet 10-K.
Source: about.google · Alphabet Form 10-K covers
Googleplex, 2007 · Sebastian Bergmann / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2015 Alphabet is formed
On October 2, 2015 Alphabet Inc. became the parent company of Google. The address stayed 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025, Item 5
Googleplex, June 2015 · Grendelkhan / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2022 Bay View and Charleston East
Google opened Bay View, the first campus it designed and built itself, with tent-like canopy roofs; Charleston East was under construction next door.
Source: Google, “The first campus built by Google” (2022)
Charleston East, May 2022 · Dicklyon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2026 Platform 37, London
Google's new King's Cross building opened in 2026.
Source: Google, “Platform 37” video (2026)
Platform 37, April 2026 · The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Google has stayed within about 10 km of where it started: from a Menlo Park garage to Mountain View, and then across the road to Bay View.
- 1 · 1998232 Santa Margarita Ave, Menlo Park (garage)
- 2 · todayGoogleplex, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
- 3 · 2022–Bay View campus
Addresses: about.google · Alphabet 10-K · Locations: OpenStreetMap · Basemap © Esri
What Google does
Google runs Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome and Maps and makes most of its money from ads on them. Google Cloud rents out computing and AI. It all sits inside Alphabet, with “Other Bets” like Waymo.
Segments: Google Services, Google Cloud and Other Bets.
Where the money came from · revenue by type, 2025
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025, Financial Results
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025 · SEC XBRL · per-employee figures calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$75.0B → $402.8B
61,814 → 190,820
Alphabet, calendar years. Revenue: SEC XBRL. Employees: Alphabet Form 10-K (2021–2024 not shown). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO of Google since 2015 and of Alphabet since 2019.
Co-founder; CEO again from 2011, and CEO of Alphabet 2015–2019.
CEO in the years Google went public and grew global.
Co-founder and first CEO.
Co-founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Source: abc.xyz leadership · about.google
Hear it from the CEO
Google: questions people ask
Where is Google's headquarters?
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California — the Googleplex. The newer Bay View campus is nearby.
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K
How many people work at Google?
Alphabet had 190,820 employees on December 31, 2025.
Source: Alphabet Form 10-K 2025
How much do Google employees make?
The median Alphabet employee's total compensation was $310,826 in 2025. 2026 postings list U.S. base salary of $136,000–$200,000 for Software Engineer III and $174,000–$252,000 for Senior Software Engineer, plus bonus and equity.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Google Careers
What is Google's CEO pay ratio?
35 to 1 in 2025: the CEO earned $10,906,079 and the median employee $310,826.
Source: Alphabet Proxy statement 2026
Where did Google start?
In a garage in Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki, after Google was incorporated in August 1998.
Source: about.google
What is Bay View?
The first campus Google designed and built itself, opened in 2022 in Mountain View.
Source: Google (2022)
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