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S. O’BRIEN: Well, it may not be the happiest place on earth, but it is pretty darn close. Google top’s “Fortune” magazine’s list of the best places to work. And we sent AMERICAN MORNING’s Alina Cho to the company’s California headquarters to find out exactly why. Alina’s back to fill us in.
Good morning.
ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
Another good assignment.
S. O’BRIEN: Is that good (INAUDIBLE).
CHO: It certainly is, Soledad.
You know, you may be waking up right now dreading the fact that you have to go to work. But people at Google, well they are almost giddy about their jobs. Some of them barely leave the office. And why would they? They have every perk right at their fingertips and all of it is free.
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CHO, (voice over): Ever wonder what’s behind this home page? It’s the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. The people who work here are called Googlers. Or if you’re new, you’re a Noogler and Google’s hiring 100 a week.
THOMAS AREND, GOOGLER: You never need to go home because you can almost sleep here. You can do your laundry here. You can eat around the clock.
CHO: And all of it is free. Googlers and Nooglers can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here at any of the company’s 11 gourmet restaurants. If you gain what’s called the Google 15, hit the gym. Training is free. So are the massages. There’s volleyball, swimming, rock climbing, game rooms and scooters. And how’s this for a perk? Google will kick in $5,000 for the purchase of a hybrid car. All this and every day is take your dog to work day.
LASZLOW BOCK, VP, GOOGLE: For us it’s less an expense item and more of an investment because we truly believe that it generates value for us in the business.
CHO: By value, Google means productivity. The ubiquitous Internet search engine is not just Google anymore. There’s Froogle, Google Earth, Blogger and G-mail. And Google is available in 110 languages. Many of the ideas are hatched, not in the cubicles, but in the lunchroom or over coffee.
Twenty-seven-year-old engineer Miniane Wang is a quintessential Googler. She graduated from college at 18, was lured to Google from Microsoft, and loves her job so much she immediately rejects all other offers.
MINIANE WANG, GOOGLER: What inspires them is not the ability to cash out and then relax and sail down the Nile. What inspires them is the ability to change the world.
CHO: Google gets 1 million applications a year, one every 25 seconds, and this year hired just 5,000.
In 2006 they hired approximately 5,000 new employees, a small percentage out of a total 1,000,000 applicants according to a recent CNN Business Report (check out the video there). Another interesting tidbit was that veteran Google employees are called Googlers, while new hires are called Nooglers.
The report was a fun look at why Google is able to hire the very best as they continue to grow. Imagine being able to eat, work out, hang out, play, and get free massages all at the same location! Also imagine how cool it would be to run a company that gets 1,000,000 applicants a year. That is a valuable database of folks looking for work that MUST be valuable to somebody…
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I would not mind working there, even if they called me a Noogler ha ha
Have you seen their recruitment videos? They have a freakin amazing working enviroment and they seem to have a lot of fun.
// Andreas Bard
Sorry to post this here, just wondering what’s happened to http://forumtrends.com?
It has been redirected to this site.
I can see that, but it’s not permanent, right? I’ll miss reading reading FT. :’(
It is permanent. I will still be blogging about forum related topics as well, just opening up the door for me to discuss other areas of interest as well.
Well i actually know someone who used to work for google and he told me although the california based office was awesome and he never wanted to leave once he was back to the state he lived the story was a completely different version. the workplace was constantly stressful and he was always stressed..
it i lived out west and found myself in the unique position of going to work for google i would be happy knowing that the company i would be working for wouldnt be on the chopping block anytime soon. but work is work, it isn’t supposed to be a lifestyle.
google has a great reputation they have done a few things recently that have kind of upset me as a web surfer. look to be honest why teh hell would i want to go to myspace to look up car parts? anyhow otherwise they are cool and they have earned their right.
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google .. live to work, not work to live .. no thanks!
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Funny post.
I’l LOVE to get a job over at Google, sounds amazing.
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I initially thought of a possible employment with Google, but the thought of rejected people forming over 95% of the whole applicants just turn me off.
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Call me crazy, but I prefer to eat breakfast and dinner at home.
99.5 applicants turned down! Wow.
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No wonder…Google is famous with the facilities for its employees.
But I guess all the facilities are worthed comparing with the work effort they must give for the company.
wow surely great number off applicant google get