Working in Google

EdenHazard

I've heard a few people on here make fun of the types who work in Google, what's the culture like in that freak house?

cml387

Look it up on..no wait.

Fromthetrees

I'm having ice cream now.

Basq

Mate of mine was sacked for using Ask Jeeves to look up something..

.. no word of a lie!

Nah, it's a lie!

El Guapo!

Another stellar thread.

Why would someone make fun of anyone that works for Google? Surely they would be among the best companies to have on your CV!

silvine

Bing is where it's at.

EdenHazard

I dunno, just some say its full of weirdos.

tbh

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I'm having ice cream now.

You're in work at 21:40. Enjoy the ice cream.

Mr. Incognito

Hey wanna work in google?

Interview #1 you cool?

Yeah


Interview #2 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #3 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #4 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #5 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #6 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #7 you cool?

Yeah

Interview #8 you cool?

Yeah

Congrats you got the job.

Three months later.............still cool.

No

EdenHazard

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I'm having ice cream now.

Do you work there? I always thought it seemed like a cool place to work but I've heard there is some strange people that work there(from posters on here)

EdenHazard

Dean09 wrote: »

Another stellar thread.

I try

Basq

I certainly wouldn't work for them.

I work in a job where I go from doing a bit of website design and /or video editing one day to Windows / Mobile Programming the next day and general IT / PC maintenance the next day and so on. I thrive on this variety and it's why I'm in my present job so long.

Working for someone like Google would presumably be a series of mundane repetitive tasks (but correct me if I'm wrong) day-in-day-out and it's not for me.

May not be as secure as the likes of Google (but where is nowadays) so yeah, they can have their ice-cream!

token101

They're talking about bringing in a swimming pool. The only reason my employer would ever need a pool would be to waterboard people who were late payers.

Basq

Basq wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't work for them.

I work in a job where I go from doing a bit of website design and /or video editing one day to Windows / Mobile Programming the next day and general IT / PC maintenance the next day and so on. I thrive on this variety and it's why I'm in my present job so long.

Working for someone like Google would presumably be a series of mundane repetitive tasks (but correct me if I'm wrong) day-in-day-out and it's not for me.

May not be as secure as the likes of Google (but where is nowadays) so yeah, they can have their ice-cream!

Pssst is your company looking for anyone?

1ZRed

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would someone make fun of anyone that works for Google? Surely they would be among the best companies to have on your CV!

You can't argue with that but

I spent the majority of the summer helping my sister and friends get jobs in Australia with fake references and really talked up applications. It worked out brilliantly!

Sure my own CV is a wall of lies thanks to http://www.bull****job.com/title/

I've got a job interview tomorrow as well! Nice:D

I'd love to work for them, I haven't applied yet as I'm building up my CV. I'd imagine the people that make fun of the people that work there are just jealous.

They pay very well and have great benefits and genuinely seem to look after their employees.

EdenHazard

Yeah it seems like a chill place to work.

Captain Darling

A jobs a fcuking job lads.

TeddyTedson

And a holes a hole. Unless you're working for the council that is.

DB21

Don't work there, but I'd love to when I'm finished college. Consistently rated as one of the top employers in the world, and some of the perks are insane. Only thing is, you've to go through 17 interviews to get a job with them.

Toby Take a Bow

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would someone make fun of anyone that works for Google? Surely they would be among the best companies to have on your CV!

It may look great on your cv, but I think the negative attitude to Google is based on the fact that you're supposed to make the job your absolute life. Hence all the benefits like the 'play' areas and the subsidised/free meals. The idea is that you stay there well past your normal working hours.

uberalles

So they expect you to be married to the job?

Where are they based in Ireland ?

rebel.ranter

DB21 wrote: »

Don't work there, but I'd love to when I'm finished college. Consistently rated as one of the top employers in the world, and some of the perks are insane. Only thing is, you've to go through 17 interviews to get a job with them.

Part of the delays are based on the requirement to be interviewed by a panel of your peers as well as management & HR, etc.:
- Makes it difficult when you are trying to coordinate multiple calendars
- Consensus decisions are always going to be slow
- Bonus payments can be in part related to the success or failure of the candidate you were responsible for hiring.

Allegedly this is the case.

Unique User Name

2 of the people that I work with now came from Google. They said that the free food is great and everybody gains weight in the beginning. After a while they got sick of the pool tables and other gimmicks. They also mentioned that they had to work quite long hours and sometimes at weekends. Another thing they said was that it's quite a difficult place to progress in.

Logical Fallacy

Basq wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't work for them.

I work in a job where I go from doing a bit of website design and /or video editing one day to Windows / Mobile Programming the next day and general IT / PC maintenance the next day and so on. I thrive on this variety and it's why I'm in my present job so long.

Working for someone like Google would presumably be a series of mundane repetitive tasks (but correct me if I'm wrong) day-in-day-out and it's not for me.

May not be as secure as the likes of Google (but where is nowadays) so yeah, they can have their ice-cream!

I guess it depends where you work within the company.

eth0

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I'm having ice cream now.

Would it be an ice cream sandwich by any chance?

Just from looking at the messy ould lump of an operating system Android is I'd say it's a shoite company to work for, not the most ethical either - do no evil my bollix

DB21

eth0 wrote: »

Just from looking at the messy ould lump of an operating system Android is

I bet you think iOS is the best thing since sliced bread.

mikemac1

Lose the childish tactics and perks, just pay me more money and let me go home at a reasonable hour

Duggys Housemate

Basq wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't work for them.

I work in a job where I go from doing a bit of website design and /or video editing one day to Windows / Mobile Programming the next day and general IT / PC maintenance the next day and so on. I thrive on this variety and it's why I'm in my present job so long.

Working for someone like Google would presumably be a series of mundane repetitive tasks (but correct me if I'm wrong) day-in-day-out and it's not for me.

May not be as secure as the likes of Google (but where is nowadays) so yeah, they can have their ice-cream!

Hmm, google actually allows a day a week for your own stuff. Of course people specialise in most disciplines, though, so you wouldn't get that variety.

Paparazzo

DB21 wrote: »

Don't work there, but I'd love to when I'm finished college. Consistently rated as one of the top employers in the world, and some of the perks are insane. Only thing is, you've to go through 17 interviews to get a job with them.

Like what? Free google?

eth0

DB21 wrote: »

I bet you think iOS is the best thing since sliced bread.

No, far too locked down for my liking. So I put up with android instead

Magenta

EdenHazard wrote: »

I've heard a few people on here make fun of the types who work in Google, what's the culture like in that freak house?

Deleted User wrote: »

Why would someone make fun of anyone that works for Google? Surely they would be among the best companies to have on your CV!

Exactly. OP, what is it you're doing with your life that's so great?
PS, calling someone a freak just because they're probably smarter and more successful than you smacks of a Junior Cert student who is jealous that he'll never get the grades the "weirdos" do.

1ZRed

DB21 wrote: »

I bet you think iOS is the best thing since sliced bread.

I would have liked to compliment Google but my iPhone just won't let me!:(

Supermensch

Would rather work for Valve

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1074301/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

Duggys Housemate

Valve seems nuts

Toby Take a Bow

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

It may look great on your cv, but I think the negative attitude to Google is based on the fact that you're supposed to make the job your absolute life. Hence all the benefits like the 'play' areas and the subsidised/free meals. The idea is that you stay there well past your normal working hours.

Google isn't the only job that is like that. Someone I know works for the BBC and they brought me on a tour of the Television Centre in London; there's a massive restaurant, bars, full gym, sleeping areas. They're the kind of jobs where you have to invest a lot of time there/work crazy hours, so I understand their wanting to make their staff comfortable as if it wasn't, they'd likely have a huge staff turnover.

mikemac1

While people occasionally choose to push themselves to work some extra hours at times when something big is going out the door, for the most part working overtime for extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in plan- ning or communication.

If this happens at Valve, it’s a sign that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected. If you’re looking around wondering why people aren’t in “crunch mode,” the answer’s pretty simple.


The thing we work hardest at is hiring good people, so we want them to stick around and have a good balance between work and family and the rest of the important stuff in life.

Valve speak the truth

Some people hang around the office all the time thinking it makes them looks dedicated.
Not at all, make them look inefficent, it takes them 10 hours to do what everyone else can do in 8.

Do your job, work hard and then get out the door in the evening, you are no use to anyone if you are tired and not fresh

Duggys Housemate

mikemac1 wrote: »

Valve speak the truth

Some people hang around the office all the time thinking it makes them looks dedicated.
Not at all, make them look inefficent, it takes them 10 hours to do what everyone else can do in 8.

Do your job and then get out the door in the evening, you are no use to anyone if you are tired and not fresh

With some exceptions - end of projects - I agree.

EdenHazard

Magenta wrote: »

Exactly. OP, what is it you're doing with your life that's so great?
PS, calling someone a freak just because they're probably smarter and more successful than you smacks of a Junior Cert student who is jealous that he'll never get the grades the "weirdos" do.

I'm as weird as they come, so im not slagging off anyone

Mountainlad

They have hammocks for the employees. I want a hammock!

Eoin

Unique User Name wrote: »

2 of the people that I work with now came from Google. They said that the free food is great and everybody gains weight in the beginning. After a while they got sick of the pool tables and other gimmicks. They also mentioned that they had to work quite long hours and sometimes at weekends. Another thing they said was that it's quite a difficult place to progress in.

Yep, nearly all the perks I've heard of are just flimsy excuses to make it easier for people to stay in work longer. Free pizza and laundry facilities etc are all well and good, but I'm happier to go home on time.

It's probably a great place to work if you're young, into technology and don't have any family commitments.

It's impressive how they manage to get their staff to really buy into the brand.

Immaculate Pasta

I've heard a rumour that there's a door on the top floor of the Google office in Dublin which is named "I'm feeling lucky". And if anyone dares go through it they just walk into an empty elevator shaft :eek:. May or may not be true...

Naomi00

Magenta wrote: »

Exactly. OP, what is it you're doing with your life that's so great?
PS, calling someone a freak just because they're probably smarter and more successful than you smacks of a Junior Cert student who is jealous that he'll never get the grades the "weirdos" do.

Working in IT doesn't mean you're smarter than anyone else.

If it did, there wouldn't be such a huge number of people who work in IT.

Duggys Housemate

Naomi00 wrote: »

Magenta wrote: »

Exactly. OP, what is it you're doing with your life that's so great?
PS, calling someone a freak just because they're probably smarter and more successful than you smacks of a Junior Cert student who is jealous that he'll never get the grades the "weirdos" do.

Working in IT doesn't mean you're smarter than anyone else.

If it did, there wouldn't be such a huge number of people who work in IT.

We were talking about high end IT - the people who write google maps and android and search etc. of course they are smarter than average.

padd b1975

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Hmm, google actually allows a day a week for your own stuff. QUOTE]
I have 2 days per week to do my own stuff.
Its called the weekend.

Duggys Housemate

padd b1975 wrote: »

Duggys Housemate wrote: »

Hmm, google actually allows a day a week for your own stuff. QUOTE]
I have 2 days per week to do my own stuff.
Its called the weekend.

And if you were smart enough to work for google you would have 3 days per week to do your own stuff, one paid.

Rezident

They used to sit on space hoppers in the board room up there. All the free food and perks are great but I prefer going home early.

For Forks Sake

Mountainlad wrote: »

They have hammocks for the employees. I want a hammock!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVoTzON8WMs

Toby Take a Bow

Deleted User wrote: »

Google isn't the only job that is like that. Someone I know works for the BBC and they brought me on a tour of the Television Centre in London; there's a massive restaurant, bars, full gym, sleeping areas. They're the kind of jobs where you have to invest a lot of time there/work crazy hours, so I understand their wanting to make their staff comfortable as if it wasn't, they'd likely have a huge staff turnover.

That's one way of looking at it. However, it's never stated by the companies that this is why they're doing it. They're considered 'perks' of working for the company when really what they're there for is to get the employees to consider that working according to normal hours is considered unacceptable.

c_man

As a developer I can think of places I'd prefer to work over them tbh. Their interview process just puts me off entirely. If you don't know whether to hire someone or not after 12 rounds over 5 months*, either your process is broken or all your interviewers are grossly incompetent.



*After this, friend was told "we're not saying no. But the job has been filled"