Company Profile of Google - Work at Google
Overview - Google
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were
students at Stanford University. The company was officially
launched in September, 1998 in a friend’s garage. In one of the
most anticipated Initial Public Offerings (IPO) Google raised
$1.67 billion in August of 2004. Today, Google has over 12,000
employees in offices throughout the world.
Google’s mission statement and corporate culture reflect a
philosophy that you can “make money without doing evil” and that
“work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun”.
These beliefs dominate life at Google. The official mission
statement of the company is to “organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible and useful.”
In 2006, Google was selected by MBA students as the ideal place to
work. In 2007 and 2008 Fortune Magazine named Google the Number 1
employer in their annual 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Google Company Culture
Google is a high-energy, fast paced work environment. While the
dress code might be “casual” the company attracts and retains
some of the brightest minds in the technology industry. There is a
work hard, play hard atmosphere. The Google Mountain View, CA
headquarters (aka “the Googleplex”) is a campus-like
environment. There are workout facilities, a cafe, well stocked
snack rooms, and a dorm like environment. View the Google Office
Descriptions for more details.
In my opinion, one of the coolest programs at Google is the 20%
time program. All Engineers at Google are encouraged to spend 20%
of their work time on projects that interest them. Not only does
this keep Engineers happy and challenged, its also good business:
some estimates put half of all new product launches can be
directly attributed to projects that came from the 20% time program.
Jobs at Google
In the United States, Google has offices in several states,
including California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Arizona, Michigan,
New York, Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington (Seattle) and Washington, DC.
They currently have hundreds of openings in Engineering, IT,
Operations and Support functions. Some of the current openings at
Google:
Current job postings in Engineering include openings for Software
Engineers with extensive experience in C++ programming and in java
programming. There are also a lot of openings for Testing
Engineers and a few for Web Designers.
The current postings for Operations and IT include openings you
would find in many Information Technology departments, including
System Administrators and Help Desk Technicians. There were dozens
of openings in their Data Center as of this writing.
Google actively recruits college graduates, with a special website
section specifically for students. Google offers both internship
and full time employment opportunities on their student recruitment pages.
Google also has offices internationally. While much of the
information presented here refers to Google’s US offices, they
currently have hundreds of Google Openings Worldwide in areas such
as Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the
Americas. I counted openings in 57 worldwide locations, not
including those in the United States.
Google Compensation and Benefits
Most workers at Google have base salaries that are on the lower
end of normal for the markets they operate in. The base salaries
are supplemented by stock options, challenging work and extensive
benefits. In addition to the normal health and welfare benefits
that most larger companies offer, Google provides its employees
with the following cutting-edge benefits:
Health care for you and your family, plus on-site physician and
dental care at our headquarters in Mountain View, California and
our engineering center in Seattle, Washington
Vacation days and holidays, and flexible work hours
Maternity and parental leave, plus new moms and dads are able to
expense up to $500 for take-out meals during the first four weeks
that they are home with their new baby
Adoption assistance
Google Child Care Center, just five minutes from Google
headquarters in Mountain View
Back-up child care helps California parents when their regularly
scheduled child care falls through
Free shuttle service to several San Francisco, East Bay, and South
Bay locations
Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Incentive Program
Employee discounts
Onsite dry cleaning, plus a coin-free laundry room in the Mountain
View office
More Google Information
The Official Google Blog is a look at life inside Google, written
by staff members from different departments in various Google
locations around the world.
Google has a philanthropic organization now, as seen at Google.org
aimed at finding solutions to some of the global problems facing
the world today. Google.org has a grant dissemination program that
provides free advertising to select charities.
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