Google has employed the best and the brilliant. They are put in small teams with a focussed task and the freedom to innovate. This has got Google shares to go up to $404.


Google Shares are at 404.80 +1.35 (0.33%)17 Nov at 7:58PM ET

“Google prides itself on hiring only the truly brilliant (and the unabashedly arrogant, rivals say) and believes the crowd always outsmarts anyone inside it”. [source]

Google has appointed the ‘father of the internet’ Vinton Cerf as ‘Chief Internet Evangelist’.

President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal to Vinton Cerf. Bush said, “Our economy, our lives, and our world have all been enriched by the imagination and the efforts of Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf”. [source]

People have left other organizations to work for Google. Kai-Fu Lee left Microsoft to join Google. Others like Joe Beda and Mark Lucovsky who have joined Google leaving other organizations have said that they like the way Google treats its employees.

Some of the others who Google has employed include:

Elliot Schrage as Vice President

Shirley Tilghman to its Board of Directors

Google has an elaborate interview procedure.

“Some applicants may start with one of Google’s famous–and ridiculously difficult–exams. (Sample:”Find the first ten-digit prime number in the mathematical constant called ‘e’.”)

Prospects endure eight or more interviews. Each interviewer ranks them on a 1-to-4 scale; a 4 means “I would hire this person, and I will argue why,” while a 3 means “Inclined to hire, but can be argued out of it.” A panel of eight Googlers reviews the scores.

Later annual regression analyses compare performance with initial ratings. One anomaly:Women with weaker scores end up performing better than women with all 4s.” [source]

Google takes the same amount of pains even to hire a chef.

Once hired Google employees work in small focussed teams. The products turned out by these teams are tested out. Google has 82 million visitors and 2.3 billion searches in a month. So it is possible to get massive feedback in the shortest possible time.

According to Eric Schmidt, “If something is successful, you work it in, somehow. If it fails, you leave”. [source]

Workers are asked to spend 20% of their time on something that interests them and 10% of company time is spent dreaming up blue-sky projects.

Google employees even bet on Google plans.

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