The right tool for an efficient heterogeneous collaborative group
February 11, 2026

The right tool for an efficient heterogeneous collaborative group

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Sheets

Use it daily to manage different engineering tasks, normally to be shared with the organization with multiple people working together in the same place, which is very powerful: a shared place to work on a very open document where everyone can write everything at the same time, but also at the same time you can define rules and automations. For very heterogeneous groups of people in terms of technical knowledge, this is a key product to be used.

Pros

  • There's a migration to be done by multiple departments and every needs to add their input
  • Calibration management, with multiple people evaluating their direct reports
  • Machine learning human in the loop tasks, where people need to share their status

Cons

  • Gemini connects to google sheets but doesn't have real-time awareness of the changes
  • Gemini only has read-only capacity, would be important to have a way to edit too given the google sheets have history and can be reverted
  • Offline capabilities are ok, but it should have more offline features
  • No more office licenses, direct costs optimization
  • No more copy past files: much more efficiency in sharing documents without the need of emails, just a link
  • No more copy past files: which resulted in people not having outdated files
Shares most of the features of the main alternatives, super simple without too many buttons, where the features are organized in menus that clearly state the options, having the history option is a big advantage in a big organization because adds the control to know who did something and then we can revert it with confidence. Overall usability is definitely very good.
Microsoft Excel in terms of singular user continues to be the best one in my opinion, but for collaboration I don't agree in that position, Google Sheets are better. Libre Office and WPS Office unfortunately are far away from the quality of Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, they are good solutions if you don't want to trust the data on external services, other than that they are not good.

Do you think Google Sheets delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Sheets's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Sheets live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Google Sheets go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Sheets again?

Yes

Google Sheets is well suited in two main areas: is free to use and you don't need to buy a license to use it, comparing to the most direct competitors ; collaboration is in my opinion the best advantage, with multiple people working together and seeing others working in real time. It's less appropriate in low connectivity environments (offline capabilities)

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