Google runs one of its most important engineering operations anywhere out of Poland, and in 2026 that operation is still growing.
The company has been in the country for twenty years, employs around 3,000 people across Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw, and describes the Polish division as its largest engineering hub in the European Union.
For anyone weighing up a job in Google’s Poland offices, three questions matter. What does it pay, what is the work, and what do the people who work there actually say. Here is the picture in 2026.
The Short Version
A 3,000-strong hub
Google employs around 3,000 people in Poland, roughly 80% of them engineers, and calls it the firm’s largest engineering hub in the EU.
Strong pay for Poland
Software engineering pay runs from about PLN 267,000 for juniors to PLN 774,000 at the senior end, with a median near PLN 391,000 on Levels.fyi.
Prestige, with trade-offs
Employees rate the Warsaw office 4.3 out of 5 on Glassdoor, well above the local market, though some flag a pay and prestige gap against Zurich and US teams.
What Does Google Do in Poland?
Google opened its first Polish office two decades ago and now runs sites in Warsaw, Krakow and Wroclaw. The Warsaw operation is the company’s largest Google Cloud technology development centre in Europe, and after buying The Warsaw Hub it has capacity for around 2,500 people there. Google also launched its first Google Cloud region for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw, the first such investment in the region.
Around 80% of the Polish team are engineers, and the work is core rather than peripheral. Teams build and run global products across Google Cloud, mobile systems and, increasingly, AI.
Krakow, where Google reopened an office in 2022 after an earlier stint from 2007 to 2015, now houses more than 400 specialists working on cloud and mobile at global scale. Wroclaw became the base for a cloud-implementation team serving enterprise customers across Europe. This is not just a support outpost handling overflow from Mountain View. It is one of the places where Google’s core technology is built.
What Does Google Pay in Poland?
In Poland’s Google offices, pay is high for the Polish market and lower than California or Zurich for the same level. The exact figure depends on team, level and the mix of base, bonus and stock, which Google grants as GSUs.
On Levels.fyi, total software engineering packages in the Warsaw area run from roughly PLN 267,000 at the junior L3 grade to about PLN 774,000 at the senior L6 grade, with a median near PLN 391,000. Median packages climb steadily by level: close to PLN 265,000 at L3, PLN 411,000 at L4, PLN 546,000 at L5 and PLN 772,000 at L6. Engineering managers sit higher again, from about PLN 524,000 at L5 to as much as PLN 1.31 million at L7.
These figures are self-reported and move with the year and the team, so treat them as a guide rather than a quote. What they show clearly enough is that Google pays at or near the top of the Polish technology market. Verita HR’s full salary guide is available here.
What the Reviews Say
Employees in Warsaw rate the office around 4.3 out of 5 on Glassdoor, in line with Google worldwide and comfortably above the local IT-sector average. Pay and benefits score higher still, close to 4.4, while career opportunities and work-life balance both sit around 4.1 to 4.2.
The positives are the ones you would expect. The brand carries real weight on a CV, the perks are generous, and reviewers describe genuinely interesting work at global scale. The criticisms are more specific. Some engineers note that pay, while strong locally, trails the same role in Zurich or the US even when the work is shared, which feeds a stepping-stone culture where people plan to move on to a richer hub. Others mention that some projects are older products moved from the US for cheaper maintenance, that managers can sit in another office, and that internal politics can wear over time.
None of this is unusual for a large multinational running a lower-cost engineering hub. The two-tier experience, strong local pay set against a visible gap to headquarters, is common across Poland’s technology and business-services cluster rather than specific to one employer. It is worth knowing before you sign.
Who It Suits
Google in Poland rewards engineers who want to work on global products with a marquee name behind them, and who value strong benefits and a stable, well-run environment. Cloud, mobile and AI specialists have the most to gain, and Krakow and Warsaw are where recent growth has concentrated.
If the priority is the very top of the global pay scale, or leading the most senior product decisions rather than delivering them, the gap to Zurich and the US is real and worth weighing. For most engineers in Poland, though, it remains one of the strongest places to work in the country.
What Is Happening Now in Google Poland
Google’s Polish footprint is still expanding. In June 2026 the company opened a second Krakow office, taking four floors of the Tertium complex with room for 300 more people, and said the Krakow engineering team had passed 400 and was still growing. It framed the move as further proof that Poland is one of its most important engineering hubs in the world and the largest in the EU.
The expansion sits inside a wider surge. In early 2025 Prime Minister Donald Tusk met Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai in Warsaw. Here, Pichai signed a cooperation memorandum with the state-owned Polish Development Fund, under which Google committed to billion-dollar investment that the government said could lift Poland’s GDP by around 8% over time.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has been expanding its own Polish data-centre and AI infrastructure. The competition for AI and machine-learning engineers has tightened accordingly.
How Verita HR Can Help
For any company hiring against names like these, the case for working with a specialist recruiter gets stronger by the quarter. Warsaw and Krakow are no longer the cheap option in European technology. They are among the places the industry now competes hardest to be.
Verita HR helps employers hire and keep the engineers that firms like Google are chasing across Poland, from cloud and mobile specialists to the AI talent every sector is now short of. That is what working at Google in Poland really looks like in 2026, and for employers competing for the same people, Verita HR can help.
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