HIRING PRACTICES AT GOOGLE

Looking for an adventure?

Google's approach is to foster creativity and cooperation in the pursuit of a common goal: creating the world's best search service. In doing so, we have developed strong revenue streams enabling us to attain profitability in a competitive marketplace. While developing services to be used by millions of people daily, you'll enjoy challenging projects and a unique work environment.

An Inside View of Google

You won't find any bored engineers at Google. You will find friendly colleagues, fascinating projects, and the opportunity to make life better for tens of millions of people every day. We work on challenging, real-world problems - like crawling and indexing billions of documents, or delivering search results to a mobile phone. We're constantly pushing the limits of what can be done with information. And while we work hard, we also have fun doing it. Google is an unusually open environment where kids feel welcome and the pace is intense, but family-friendly.

We're looking for people with world-class programming skills who are passionate about their work and want to make a difference in the world. Do you thrive in small, focused teams and high-energy environments? Would you find it satisfying to develop innovative products that actually matter? If so, there are plenty of interesting projects waiting for you at Google.

Top 10 Reasons to Work at Google

1. Lend a helping hand. With millions of visitors every month, Google has become an essential part of everyday life-like a good friend-connecting people with the information they need to live great lives.

2. Life is beautiful. Being a part of something that matters and working on products in which you can believe is remarkably fulfilling.

3. Appreciation is the best motivation, so we've created a fun and inspiring workspace you'll 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; and plenty of snacks to get you through the day.

4. Work and play are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to code and pass the puck at the same time.

5. We love our employees, and we want them to know it. Google offers a variety of benefits, including a choice of medical programs, company-matched 401(k), stock options, maternity and paternity leave, and much more.

6. Innovation is our bloodline. Even the best technology can be improved. We see endless opportunity to create even more relevant, more useful, and faster products for our users. Google is the technology leader in organizing the world's information.

7. Good company everywhere you look. Googlers range from former neurosurgeons, CEOs, and U.S. puzzle champions to alligator wrestlers and former-Marines. No matter what their backgrounds Googlers make for interesting cube mates.

8. Uniting the world, one user at a time. People in every country and every language use our products. As such we think, act, and work globally-just our little contribution to making the world a better place.

9. Boldly go where no one has gone before. There are hundreds of challenges yet to solve. Your creative ideas matter here and are worth exploring. You'll have the opportunity to develop innovative new products that millions of people will find useful.

10. There is such a thing as a free lunch after all. In fact we have them every day: healthy, yummy, and made with love.

Google's mission:

Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

To make this vision a reality, Google is looking for exceptional people who like to develop innovative new products, especially software engineers and tech-savvy product managers. Are you exceptional at what you do? Do you:

* Thrive on working in small teams to develop innovative products?

* Enjoy developing efficient new algorithms for processing tremendous amounts of data?

* Think it would be fun to write distributed systems that run on thousands of computers?

* Live to have the results of your work used and depended upon by millions of people every day?

If you're an outstanding software developer, computer scientist or product manager, read on and consider sending your resume and a brief cover letter to greatpeople@google.com.

Information Courtesy www.google.co.in