What Do Employees At Google Do Anyway?

[orleans]

besides love their jobs and have the best company in the world to work for....what exactly do they do? anyone know?

[evlbstrd]

1. Google stuff?

If they don't find it, they add it?

[babylonsister]

5. Hell, I want that job! I do it for free!

:crazy:

[evlbstrd]

8. I do get paid for it!

It's been slow at the office lately.

[Kingshakabobo]

2. Feed and water the spiders? nt

[NYC Liberal]

3. http://labs.google.com/

;)

[Lex]

4. Come up with cool Google logos on holidays n' stuff?

:shrug:

[don954]

6. depends on what their function is....

server admins configure & replace servers, code monkeys change & optimize code and add new features, sales people promote google services, admin people push the paper work, managers make sure everyone does their jobs, etc. Its a company, lots of people, lots of jobs.

[Capn Amerika]

7. Monitor search traffic then turn it over to the CIA.

[Nutmegger]

9. I use Scroogle

http://www.scroogle.org/

[Book Lover]

12. Do you know about this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/08/msn_bans_scroogle/

Don't know if this affects you or not, but I thought I'd mention it...

[Book Lover]

10. An antidote to that fawning piece on Countdown

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/google_interview_tales/

The whole vibe was eerily like I felt when interviewing on Wall Street years before: arrogance personified, with the brusqueness coming from certain knowledge that they are the Masters of the Universe and you are very lucky to even be in their presence.

<snip>

Their hiring process is clearly disfunctional. They agree to interview a person who is interested only in a chosen location and has no interest in working anywhere else. So for example, you have agreed to go ahead with the interview only if you can work in their Denver office. They schedule an interview with you and you pass the interview after which you are contacted by a HR droid who says "I am contacting you about this job in Mountain View for which you have applied, we would like to take the process further". At which point you tell them to go stuff the Mountain View somewhere where sun does not shine as you are only interested in Denver. At that point they reschedule a new interview agreeing that Denver is OK as a possibility. Interview passes, the next HR droid contacts you again with "I am contacting you about this job in Mountain View for which you have applied, we would like to take the process further". Rinse, repeat. No wander they need bots to filter applications.

Misspellings are {sic}

[Berry Cool]

18. The "fawning piece" was only reporting on them being named a best place to work.

It wasn't intended to say anything about how you got HIRED in the first place.

[TahitiNut]

11. Look at the job openings and pick one.

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1116&dep_id=1173

• Engineering (159 types of openings)

• Operations and IT (109 types of openings)

• Partner Solutions Organization (23 types of openings)

• Product Management (32 types of openings)

• Advertising Sales (42 types of openings)

• Online Operations (73 types of openings)

• Google Checkout and Billing/Payments (15 types of openings)

• Enterprise (20 types of openings)

• Search Services/Syndication (28 types of openings)

• Corporate Communications (2 types of openings)

• Marketing (21 types of openings)

• Finance (64 types of openings)

• Facilities (8 types of openings)

• Legal (33 types of openings)

• Business/Corporate Development (14 types of openings)

• Strategy and Business Operations (5 types of openings)

• Human Resources (84 types of openings)

• Administrative (9 types of openings)

• User Experience (15 types of openings)

• Google.org (7 types of openings)

• Students (3 types of openings)


... and that's just in Mountain View.

[MADem]

13. I saw that piece...it reminded me of the sixties, I thought they were all high! NT

[Moochy]

14. Duh... googling stuff for you :-)

Through the magic of page ranking and their patented content caching, when google is showing you page one, the engineers are frantically typing the answers in for page two... Just in time search results! :+

[uppityperson]

15. wash screens, make coffee, clean the tubes?

[sandnsea]

16. Whore for corporate america

Make sure the search engine is set up so any monstrosity of a site that pays big advertising bucks comes up #1 every time. Design more applications to enable corporate America to push their product onto the masses, further squeezing out the litle guy.

I hate Google.

[WiseButAngrySara]

22. I love Googl;e and used it as a a verb/adverb long before it was

popular to do so! What search engine do you use? One always has to know how to separate the wheat from the chaff....

[snot]

17. I use Clusty.

I understand they don't record your keystrokes.

http://clusty.com/

[applegrove]

19. They do math.

[Ioo]

20. You should get out more, Search Eng is just one of the things they do.

They have online applications like WORD and EXCEL

Google Maps
Google World
MyWAY.com
Google News
YouTube
Google Shopping Cart
Google Email - Chat
Google Calendar

and on and on

[Atman]

24. Don't forget Google SketchUp, one of the coolest things they do

It's a free 3D rendering and animation program that is absolutely mind-blowing. There are entire "warehouses" (as Google calls them) online of 3D stuff people have created to ad to your 3D layouts -- tables, chairs, grills, cars, even buildings and trees, all pre-rendered to scale, so you can just drop them into your drawing.

If you have any interest in 3D work at all, you owe it to yourself to check it out. I'm not sure where to find it...I'm sure you can Google it.

:)

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[Richard Steele]

21. The only one I know personally is working on...

...the team that has adapted their "Google Maps"
utility to work with cell phones.

[sendero]

23. I dunno...

... I see a lot of criticism of Google here. I'm sure some of it is warranted, however I really like Google's products (their stuff WORKS) and they are giving Microsoft FITS which I absolutely LOVE, since not in any stretch of the imagination could Google EVER be as slimy and "dysfunctional" as Microsoft.