Assignment 15

 

 

 1. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?

 

Employess have free food, fitness facilities, massage rooms, hair dresses, laundry rooms and on-site doctors. They have all they want at their fingertips and that makes employes dedicate more time at proyects and makes them really want different things. Employee wellbeing is the key for leadership, pride in their work, enjoyment,fairness and success in the company. 

 

 

 2. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?

 

The diversity of people and cultures at Google makes the coexsitence between workers different and pleasant at the same time.The neccesities of the workers at Google also make them to come up with new creations for the company. Examples are the indoor amacs, the indoor aquarium to maintain employes happy, the pots with 100 different escenaries, the fire pole and the indoor slide. 

 

 

 

 3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?

 

Google looks for smart, team-oriented people who can get things done. They look for leadership, people who have a variety of strengths,passions and know how to solve problems. Bias to action  and posession of collaborative nature. What is different about the way they hire is that the propsects are interview by four or five bloggers. Also some of the interviewers could be potential teamates,but some interviewers will be with other teams.This helps them see how the cnadiates collaborate and fit in at Google overall.

 

 

 

 4.  How many search queries does Google handle a day?

 

Every day Google answers more than one billion questions from people around the globe in 181 countries and 146 languages.

 

 

 5.In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.

 

Google is refining search algorithm by returning only the most relevant results at the top of the page, sparing people from combing through the less relevant results below. For example,PageRank, named for Larry Page. It works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

 

 

 6.Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?

 

Google is one of the world’s largest hardware manufacturers, thanks to the fact that it builds much of its own equipment. Maybe Google wated to maintain their secrecy because if the information of their equipment was shared google will not have that special charateristic and other competitors will try to match their results.

 

 

 7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?

 

*Googlers and their families are covered with travel insurance and emergency assistance

 

*Googlers get legal advice at no cost and, in the US, also get common legal services at a generous group discount.

 

*Parents get time off and some extra spending money to help them welcome their new baby.

 

* On-site physicians and nurses, convenient medical services, and comprehensive health care coverage

 

*Free food and transportation.

 

 

 8.Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

 

 

 Software engineer: Writes code for web-based applications, create robust high-volume production applications, and develop prototypes.

 

Interaction Designer: Helps to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.

 

Statiscian/Engineering Analyst:Research and develop methods for measuring and analyzing ads quality. Research new algorithms and methods for optimizing ads quality and revenue.

Staffing Services Manager: Lead and manage a team who support clients across Tech, Portfolio and Global Business, providing recruitment coordination, resume screening and job posting services.

Quality Evaluator:Evaluate ads and flag areas of concern. Ensure Google advertising policies and standards are upheld. Work with linguists, engineering teams, and tools to improve our advertising quality.

 

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project, with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer. The Google driverless car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars.Google X Lab, sometimes known as Google X, is a secret facility run by Google thought to be located somewhere in the Bay Area of Northern California.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?they don't know the action and the work is they need experience and years of practice