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- xerus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63How does Google exist? They make infinite money, but it looks like their employees do absolutely nothing.
- V1be, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38A smart person's best skill is avoiding work.
- Anonymous - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Go work at Wal*Mart and tell me that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Gee, i would hate to work somewhere that has free doctors, free food, free massages, free games room, free time, can bring ur pet, can sit around and laugh, free Gym and a heap of happy people as co-workers...
- quez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I'd like to work for Google. Too bad I lack talent, creativity and motivation.
Oh well. - KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Google was founded on one really cool novel way to play with linear algebra to search large amounts of data quickly. Its sort of an anti-Manhattan or Apollo project. They are a multi billion dollar company because of two students haphazardly playing around with code and math ideas, almost like two kids playing with legos. This is the type of innovation Google is interested in. They don't want to be a Microsoft or Intel with large research teams solving tough problems. They want to come up with novel solutions or just plain ideas, and know the way to do that effectively isn't a million monkeys at a million typewriters, but rather a million monkeys on a million intellectual swing sets.
@deskflyer(below) Totally right. This same was said for microsoft and IBM and every other company that had more money than they knew what to do with at one point. - bryan4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33Well they hardly do nothing. The employees at Google are the smartest mathematicians to ever grace the earth.
- emehrkay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Although all the perks are great, isnt the ultimate goal for them to keep you at work longer?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Go work at Microsoft and tell me that.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Touche.
- TeCuervo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Right there with ya'!
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Any place that rakes in billions of dollars is probably a good place to work.
(DWTFV) - rAid135, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12God, we already know this. Google employees don't have to brag about it.
- truspark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12the kind of people who would block ads are not the kind of people who would click on an ad and buy anyway.
- Polymathic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11No, the regular massages ARE free - it is the "special" happy-ending massages that you have to pay extra for! ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm so jealous of those google working bastards, why, WHY am I not a smart mathematician?
- SLH06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8So this is why none of their services get out a beta! :-D
- nuromantic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i liked how the Today show was trying to keep the company's name a secret til halfway through the clip, even though the info bar under the video said "inside look at google" the entire time.
defeats the purpose a bit? - EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It is sad that even after seeing this so many companies will ignore Google's success and refuse to stray from their rigid artificial constructs with no better reason than "it's always been that way".
In my office half of the people are walking zombies until lunch. I'd estimate that less than 2% of the work gets done from 8-10AM. The few people that work under me are still forced to be in the office from 8-6 by higher management. Who cares where they are and when as long as they are getting their work done? And how does choking yourself with a piece of cloth all day help productivity? Does Google have to ghost write a book with Zig Ziglar for anyone to accept change? - geoffcybor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7what the hell is google?
- wipis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I think of it as taking the Japanese employment model and going a step further. The company is dedicated to it's employees and in return the employees show total dedication to the company.
It's always been my philosophy, and luckily I have worked mostly in places with a similar philosophy, that a happy worker is a good worker. If you want employees to work long hours you need to provide them food, comfort and ways to relax after periods of high stress. You need them healthy not hopped up on junk food and coffee for them to work smarter not harder. You don't want your employees worrying about laundry or health care or gas prices or child care at work so by spending some money on that you can get much greater efficiency from your workers. I've had dreams of working at Google long before this but I know a political science degree may not be the best thing to get in.
I know it's hard to quantify over an entire corporation but they didn't mention pay. Do a lot of these services come out of your check? Still not a bad deal if it saves you some taxes and stress. - williamharper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@ hgb5150
Why is it a bad thing that Google is so profitable? Isn't profitability a good idea for enterprise...one of the top reasons for starting a company in the first place?? I wish you many a botched venture. That way...you'll be "keeping it real."
Google is a great company....which brings me a LOT of services that I use regularly. I hope they continue to grow and increase in profitability. Maybe one day, Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be at the top of the Forbes list...rather than Big Bill "Spawn of Satan" Gates. - TeCuervo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow... if that's their worst office...
Too bad Google is not looking for some mediocre American that likes to procrastinate and tell jokes no one else but himself likes... I would be in like Flynn...
Has anyone seen Idiocracy? Well, that's me... but fatter... I think my plants need more Gatorade. - NinjitsuStylee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3None of the services come out of Googlers' paychecks.
Oh, and @0o0moylan0o0: the massages aren't free. - paulbobrookins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@alllie
Google is a young company, and most likely recruits straight out of college or from the tech-savvy younger generation. Also, most of the employees in the video were in the general workforce, not executives promoted through the ranks, who might look 'slightly' older. - joerod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you mean i can work in corp amarica and not feel like a machine... i want to work for google!
- ladyarcher85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want to work there!
Food is free and fitness center good lord!!! - edzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2;_; I want to work there.
- alllie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It does look like utopia. Every workplace should be like that.
Except that everyone looked like they were under 30. And very healthy.
Does google practice age discrimination? or discrimination against the handicapped.
No offense google employees. Don't digg me down. Just tell me. - marcuschi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"recently been named the best place to work in America."? This has been out for months.
- hgb5150, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@ williamharper
Who said it was a bad thing that Google is so profitable? I didn't. I'm just amazed that so many companies pay them to insert ads in their searches, and to collect personal data on people, when the ads are so easily blocked, the cookies are so easily expunged, and click fraud so easy to commit. I think Google is great for the end users, but the real customers who pay the bills are paying through the nose. I don't mind taking advantage of the free lunch they provide and I thank them for being gullible, but someday they may just catch on to the fact that Google isn't giving them their money's worth and this free lunch will end.
Until then... Bon appetit! - nushee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0think of it this way, if every company had a work environment like google's, then we wouldnt have movies like Office Space.
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The thing is, when you have the best ***** mathematicians on the earth working for you, you manage to get rid of click fraud pretty damn fast. Ironically, do a google search and find the statistics for click fraud for google and other ad companies. I guarantee you google has the lowest click fraud on the planet. Google is the BEST company for your money if you're going for some online advertising (although I wouldn't say doing JUST online would be your best option by far).
While most companies are content to pay off an advertiser on the side, Google actively hunts down fraudulent clickers and those who offer to "sell clicks" to you with their fraud squad, I don't see too many other companies doing anything like that, more like "Pay off the Advertiser" squads to make their problems go away. - lazyleo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2wow i wouldnt mind working if it is for google :p
- unsolicited, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Other People's Money?
- alefox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1@Polymathic @Ninjitsustylee
do you people work for Google? - fatas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Lame they had to go to NY office, which is their worst.
- hgb5150, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1It amazes me that Google is so profitable. I wonder why anyone pays them to serve ads. Am I the only one on the net using Firefox with the "Customize Google" extension and blocking from my view every single ad that Google serves?
Must be all those IE users out there keeping the Google coffers filled. - jrybak, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Google is not a search engine company or a technology company but rather the most successful marketing firm in history.
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