1. 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?
- In Google the employees are treated very good, with that they work better and faster, for example all their food its free, they can clean their clothes there, they can use the cars of the company. as consequence they are happy and when people is happy they are capable to do things in a more efficient way.
2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want,
deliver better business?
- with their time they can work on new projects that can maybe make the Google page better in efficiency and more friendly because is created by people for people, also in their "free" time they can be creative and create new apps.
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
- they want you to think out of the box because they want new ideas and different ways of thinking, first they have a conversation with a recruiter, then a phone interview and an onsite
interview at one of their offices.
4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
- 3 billion daily search queries.
5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
- when you try to search for something you start typing and all of this options come out related with the thing you are searching for. also this makes searching for things better in a way that is faster and easier.
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?
- because if everybody could access to the data center the way that Google works could be copied and then Google would no longer be unique or special or the best searching web page
in the world.
7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
- you can clean your clothes in their installations, there are different restaurants and you can eat in them by free, also there is a room for the employees that has fish tanks so they can relax and after it work better, also they have sleep balls.
8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?
- Google glasses
- robots according to the New York Times.
- driver-less cars
- clean energy
- new drugs
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 glasses : is a searcher that work with your voice and the screen is the glasses.
- (Google X) which includes a lab in an undisclosed location where robots rule the roost , according to the New York Times.
- At Google, cars aren't just a means of transportation--they're also an
engineering problem to be solved with piles of data and cash.
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?
- the prefer that the recent graduates create heir own companies that to work for a company that is already one of the best ones in the world, the want new companies in the market to make competition to Google.
11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
- Google is different than yahoo and bing because is more trust worthy and it contains more information than this other web sites, also their way of working is different and more efficient for the searcher.