They know time is valuable. By chipping extra bits and bytes from their pages and increasing the efficiency of their serving environment, they've broken their own speed records many times over, so that the average response time on a search result is a fraction of a second. They keep speed in mind with every new product they release.
4. Democracy on the web works.
Google search workings because it relies on the millions of individuals posting links on websites to help determine which other sites offer content of value. As the web is increasing, this approach actually improves, as each new site is another point of information. In the same way, they are active in open source software development.
5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.
This world is increasingly mobile: people want access to information wherever they are, whenever they need it. They're ground-breaking new technologies and offering new solutions for mobile services that help people all over the globe to do any number of tasks on their phone and so as to access Google search on a phone.
6. You can make money without doing evil.
The revenue they generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on their site and on other sites across the web. To ensure that they're ultimately serving all their users (whether they are advertisers or not), they have guidelines for their advertising programs and practices.
7. There's always more information out there.
There are lots of efforts which require a bit more creativity, like adding the ability to search news archives, patents, academic journals, billions of images and millions of books. And their researchers continue looking into ways to bring the entire world's information to people seeking answers because everyday more information is uploaded on the web.
8. The need for information crosses all borders.
Their mission is to make possible access to information for the entire world, and in every language. For this, they have offices in dozens of countries and serve more than half of their results to people living outside the United States. They offer Google's search interface in more than 110 languages, offer people the ability to limit results to content written in their own language, and aim to provide the rest of their applications and products in as many languages as possible.
9. You can be serious without a suit.
Their founders built Google around the thought that work should be challenging, and the challenge should be fun. There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to their overall success.
10. Great just isn't good enough.
They see being great at something as a starting point, not an endpoint. They set their selves goals they know they can't reach yet, because they know that by stretching to meet them they can get more than expected. Through innovation, they aim to take things that work and improve upon them in unexpected ways.
Quality Work Life:
Google is not a conventional company they share attributes with the world’s most successful organizations – a focus on innovation and brainy business practices comes to mind. At Google, they know that all employees have something important to say, and are significant to their success. They offer individually-tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards.
Google has a high-energy, fast paced working environment with the dress code casual. The company attracts and retains some of the brightest brains in the technological industry. Basically, there is a work hard, play hard atmosphere.
Advantages:
The basic reasons to work at Google are as follows:
- Appreciation is the best motivation, so they've created a fun and inspiring workspace that the workers be glad to be a part of, including on-site doctor and dentist; massage and yoga; professional development opportunities; on-site day care; shoreline running trails etc.
- Google loves its employees, and wants them to know that. It offers a variety of benefits, including a choice of medical programs, stock options, maternity and paternity leave, free shuttle service, employee discounts and much more.
- Good company everywhere one looks because Googlers range from former neurosurgeons, CEOs, and U.S. puzzle winners to alligator wrestlers and former-Marines. No matter what their backgrounds, Googlers make for motivating cube mates.
- Courageously go where no one has gone before. There are thousands of challenges yet to solve. The creative ideas matter here and are worth exploring so the workers have the opportunity to develop innovative new products that millions of people will find useful.
- There is such a thing as a free lunch after all at Google. In fact the workers at Google have them every day: healthy, yummy, with friendly environment.
- They realize and celebrate that their employees have diverse needs, and that this diversity requires flexible and individually directed support. Their priority is to offer a customizable program that can be customized to the specific needs of each individual, whether they enjoy ice climbing in Alaska, want to retire by age 40, or plan to adopt 3 children.
Disadvantages:
But every company is not perfect, so Google’s work life has some limitations as well:
- The strange thing at Google is; while outside, an employee has all these big ideas one could do if one ever worked there. Once inside, the employee has a number of other Googlers thinking the same things. So there is a lot of pressure on employees’ creativity.
- Google takes longer than any company to get through the hiring process (approximately 5 months from resume to job start.) Ethically, the interview process is very mixed and involves micro-management from the very top, which makes one irritated.
- At Google, there is a lot of internal competition. For example, there are some situations when a project is set to start its life cycle, that there is, on a parallel other teams that work on the same project. The final product that gets released belongs to the team that comes with the best proof of concept or the best design or the best pilot or the best final product. The credit does not go to the other teams that work initially or contributed in the same project.
- At Google, there is inconsistent management especially there are a lot of people who does very little in the way of people management. Due to the insistent growth of Google, a lot of managers essentially learnt nothing about the products or issues with staff. Basically the authority chain is confusing.
- Their corporate headquarters is located in Mountain View, California. Other than that, Google has many other offices around the globe. While their working environment and life are not identical, this is fairly not right because every employee of Google should experience same level of job satisfaction.
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