10 Reasons To Work For Google

[Kesmai]

http://digg.com/business_finance/10_Reasons_To_Work_For_Google_w_PICS

Excerpt:

The truth is, the Google workplace is pretty chaotic. You are expected to keep track of your own priorities and use their free resources to stimulate motivation and creativity. They are very selective about who can work for them, obviously they would not hire some slacker who can?t keep his priorities straight and isn?t very productive. There is a lack of structure at Google but they want it to be that way because of their beliefs.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

where are the 10 reasons.

p.s. you suck at teh linkage

 

[fs5]

2 reasons not to work there:
1) pay will be no where near industry average for a standard job (entry level to senior level) because of their 'perks' and they're past IPO now.
2) Imagine a work environment where everybody is from an ivy league school and everybody competes like it's an ivy league school. If you've been at an ivy league level school you'll know what I'm talking about

 

[Kesmai]

uhh.. never went to an ivy league school so i'm going to need you to elaborate =p

 

[her209]

This is the worst Top 10 list...

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Kesmai
uhh.. never went to an ivy league school so i'm going to need you to elaborate =p

then they wouldn't hire you, so don't worry.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: fs5
2) Imagine a work environment where everybody is from an ivy league school and everybody competes like it's an ivy league school. If you've been at an ivy league level school you'll know what I'm talking about

Intra-company competition is not unusual at Google or anywhere else.

 

[Squisher]

Maybe I can clean the bathrooms there.

Hey, someone's gotta mow the lawn.

 

[trmiv]

I had a recruiter call me about six months ago about a job at google doing desktop support. I asked the pay, and she said "oh, ummm, it's $17 an hour." I said, thanks but no thanks. All those "perks" aren't worth that kind of pay. Weeeeeee, I'm playing foosball at work! But I can't pay my frigging rent!!!

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

The 20 percent rule is a de facto myth. It isn't ture, official and confirmed by 3 different sources inside google.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: trmiv
I had a recruiter call me about six months ago about a job at google doing desktop support. I asked the pay, and she said "oh, ummm, it's $17 an hour." I said, thanks but no thanks. All those "perks" aren't worth that kind of pay. Weeeeeee, I'm playing foosball at work! But I can't pay my frigging rent!!!

Where do you live? That's like $35K a year + full medical. If you're single you'd live quite nicely on that around here.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: trmiv
I had a recruiter call me about six months ago about a job at google doing desktop support. I asked the pay, and she said "oh, ummm, it's $17 an hour." I said, thanks but no thanks. All those "perks" aren't worth that kind of pay. Weeeeeee, I'm playing foosball at work! But I can't pay my frigging rent!!!

Where do you live? That's like $35K a year + full medical. If you're single you'd live quite nicely on that around here.

Google HQ in Mountain View, CA is where the job was. 35K a year won't get you much around here. I make a decent amount more than that already.

 

[Phokus]

reason number 11: Chicks dig google guys

 

[Kesmai]

It's not a myth, Google confirmed it in their own recruitment video.

 

[AreaCode707]

I heard a rumor that Google was moving to Bellevue, WA. (10 mins from Redmond and Microsoft.) Can anybody confirm?

 

[XZeroII]

I can do that stuff at my job. Except we don't have a game room, or a bike ride area, or a tennis court...

 

[L1FE]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: trmiv
I had a recruiter call me about six months ago about a job at google doing desktop support. I asked the pay, and she said "oh, ummm, it's $17 an hour." I said, thanks but no thanks. All those "perks" aren't worth that kind of pay. Weeeeeee, I'm playing foosball at work! But I can't pay my frigging rent!!!

Where do you live? That's like $35K a year + full medical. If you're single you'd live quite nicely on that around here.

Google HQ in Mountain View, CA is where the job was. 35K a year won't get you much around here. I make a decent amount more than that already.

What position were you being hired for? Everyone I know post-IPO were getting 80k+. Also, they mention that they really do get their 20%...unless of course they're busy doing project work. Oh, and just for clarification, the people I know who work their are part of their external development teams for public apps. Google also hires a bunch of internal application folks that I'm guessing didn't make the cut for external.

 

[Whitecloak]

MS is going to wallop them.

 

[Syringer]

I know a couple people who work there. At best they're of average intelligence..and one of them relied on a friend to take a very basic take home quiz in order to get employment..

 

[Wreckage]

They are moving their ad business about a 1.5+ hours from me. I would love to work there, but I would hate to spend 3+ hours every day driving.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: HotChic
I heard a rumor that Google was moving to Bellevue, WA. (10 mins from Redmond and Microsoft.) Can anybody confirm?

To clarify, it wasn't all of Google, but I did hear thie rumor from real estate developers that Google was slated to lease a new building that was in the process of construction.

ZV

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Kesmai
uhh.. never went to an ivy league school so i'm going to need you to elaborate =p

then they wouldn't hire you, so don't worry.

Actually I go to U of M and they do a fair bit of recruiting here. I'm not a CS major so I don't really care, but it's not true that they only recruit at the Ivy Leagues, which IIRC don't even have that good of CS programs to begin with.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: L1FE

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: trmiv
I had a recruiter call me about six months ago about a job at google doing desktop support. I asked the pay, and she said "oh, ummm, it's $17 an hour." I said, thanks but no thanks. All those "perks" aren't worth that kind of pay. Weeeeeee, I'm playing foosball at work! But I can't pay my frigging rent!!!

Where do you live? That's like $35K a year + full medical. If you're single you'd live quite nicely on that around here.

Google HQ in Mountain View, CA is where the job was. 35K a year won't get you much around here. I make a decent amount more than that already.

What position were you being hired for? Everyone I know post-IPO were getting 80k+. Also, they mention that they really do get their 20%...unless of course they're busy doing project work. Oh, and just for clarification, the people I know who work their are part of their external development teams for public apps. Google also hires a bunch of internal application folks that I'm guessing didn't make the cut for external.

I wasn't being hired for anything. A recruiter called me saying they had a desktop support position they were hiring for at google, and when I asked them the pay scale, that's what they said. This wasn't some kind of development position, which might explain the low pay, but still given the requirements, it was no where even close to inline with what that position pays in this area typically.

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: fs5

Originally posted by: Kesmai
uhh.. never went to an ivy league school so i'm going to need you to elaborate =p

then they wouldn't hire you, so don't worry.

Actually I go to U of M and they do a fair bit of recruiting here. I'm not a CS major so I don't really care, but it's not true that they only recruit at the Ivy Leagues, which IIRC don't even have that good of CS programs to begin with.

Yeah I was reading an article in the local newspaper and they apparently do a fair bit of recruiting at the University of Washington

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Kesmai
It's not a myth, Google confirmed it in their own recruitment video.

The pressures of working on projects with deadlines makes using 20 percent of your time to work on your own projects a de facto myth...