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- johnpombrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sure, its a great feeling when company is growing, profits are high, and the stock is doing great. I worked for HP and we had free coffee, soda, donuts, Friday beer bashes, company parties, company owned campgrounds with fully furnished cabins, and a trip every year to a resort so we could have "a sales meeting". As the company started to plateau and times got tougher,these were dropped one by one until nothing was left.
Enjoy it while it lasts, Google! - 9mmCensor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Living at home with mommy vs. Google
Free home cooked food ... Free Cafateria Food
Free laundry service ... Free Laundry Service
Free Electricity to play Ski Free every day ... Annual Ski Trip - CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What about their French benefits?
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google knows how to manage its human resource.
- EliGottlieb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh. Where I live we can go skiing every weekend or other (Northeast of America, quite cold)! I know how to do my own laundry, and can easily learn to cook many more things!
Besides, I'm not really interested in search and databases and stuff. Anyone know a good operating systems company (NOT M$) looking for someone? - rm999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Internet Bubble 2.0, right here, front row. Google is gonna crash hard if they keep this up. A simple internet advertising company cannot maintain such a large workforce. Or such a large stock price.
BTW, one free night of skiing isn't so great, nor would I call it a vacation. It's more like a day trip (without the day!) Night skiing sucks. - Estazor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm free food, a nice vacation, AND free laundry? That'll mean all I have to pay for is rent and utilities.....NICE!
- mrgomel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Microsoft was the Google of the nineties in that sense. The also gave perks and had a creative recruitment process with tricky questions.
- snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I now want to work for Google...
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I totally agree w/ u, alienos. Those perks aren't even that great. The real benefits you should look for are insurance and retirement. Sure, they're not sexy, but they sure come in handy in the long run.
You don't want to work at places like Google and MS unless you're willing to work long, long hours. Only good if you're truly passionate about it. - patrickloggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/working.html
They get lots of awesome stuff. - alienos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I work for another large sized software company (6,000 employees) and we do have some similar benefits that are really nice. Those things look great when you go to interview there.. but once you start working and really get into projects how much time do you REALLY have to go do these things? There is a reason they have free laundry... it's because you are never home to do it 'cause you are always working!
My question for the common googler is: "How many hours a week do you work?" I think the answer may explain why they have to give so many perks.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0agree johnpombrio, when all these perks start to affect the "bottom line" or the interests of the stock holders they will go, I worked for a company like that in terms of "perks", camping trips, food and stuff , all of those is just temporary.
Now on the the best and brightest I have to disagree, google hasn't created anything, all they do is doogle: they take something that already exists, rebrand it and let the fanboys viral marketing it. Want something creative: napster, bittorrent and such, google had not to do anything with "creative". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good point guys, seems things like retirement or pensions are in nobody's book these days, if this trend continues the future is going to be a little bit messy, now another piece of advise, always turn your salary into dollars/hour you'll get amazed as I did that I was working too much and making the same salary per hour of a supermarket supervisor but with the degree. Be smart and don't let yourself go on things like perks or the need to belong to something.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, these kind of benifits are getting real rare now..
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0EliGottlieb, VMWare, Inc? They might need OS people. You bring out an interesting point. People get lost in the hype. I bet some poor guy paid 200,000 to graduate from a ivy league CS degree, went thru 14 interviews to sign up with Google, and then discovered he doesn't like the work much.
You're going to be working 8+ hrs, you might want to make sure it excites you. - MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's just their way to justify the long 15 hour days and weekends that you'll work. I'll take 9 to 5 and little stress over laundy and free food any day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd work there without those benefits, just so I could say:
"Yeah... I'm the lead sanitation engineer at Google!" - allenu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@alienos
Absolutely. You get paid well and get benefits, but likely are expected to work very, very hard. It's easy to lose yourself in your work and then justify it with the loads of money and benefits you get, but when are you going to enjoy those rewards? I work at a big company and we get lots of benefits, but I also see lots of people in the offices who work long hours and put in time during the weekend. It's their choice, but I'd rather not do that. - cwcentral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good luck at meeting someone different (if you desire a social life).
Google's got the right recipe for production, but not the right recipe for creativity. Hmmm, look out Microsoft.... - FSFunky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seriously, who hasn't heard of this before. If you don't know by now how lavishly Google treats their employees, welcome to the Internet!
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0French benefits. Hehe.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There seems to be two schools of thought in business nowadays. Either treat your employees like disposable trash (a la Wal Mart) or lure in the best by treating them like human beings (a la Google). Sadly, the former attitude seems to be winning out. I can't imagine why industries don't look at the success of companies like Google or Costco (to give an example more relevant to the Wal Mart example) and see that it also works to treat the employees well.
- markham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, this is all amazing! I've never heard of perks like those. Foosball, beer fridays, dogs at work, lavish parties, fancy free meals, etc.
Of course, I was in a car crash recently and cannot remember anything that happened in silicon valley from 1995 to 2000, so i may be wrong.
Wake the ***** UP people! Google makes money selling tiny classified ads. That's it. NOTHING ELSE. They dont make a dime with any of their other freeware *****.
Just like Don Lapre on the late night infomercials.. "All you need to do is place hundreds of tiny classified ads in newspapers all over the country, and you'll be stinking rich!" That's google's only source of income. Except instead of newspapers, they use newspaper websites and blogs.
Period. - zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but what about the hookers and beer?
- logost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I often wonder what walmart would be like if the visionaire Mr Sam Walton was still alive today.
- RoboticMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I completely agree with markham.
Are all employee's treated this nice? or just the "best and brightest?" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These benefits will not last long.
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really used to like google when it was released. My perception of them was that these guys had figured it out, done their homework, and are celebrating appropriately. Instead, they're copying their homework, doing it very fast because they're really smart people, and keep inviting friends to the party.
Formula for disaster. I'd like to see them around in 10 years, so I say to Google, clean your act up, even if it means growing up. - dcskate101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Who doesn't want to work for google? It's definitely the hottest tech company right now. I kick myself for not buying their stock when it IPO'd =(
http://www.h2stats.com - MeanShift, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Ah, yes. After having spent the last 10 years of my life getting a BS and a Ph.D in computer science, I will now give up on my lifelong dream to become a research scientist in artificial intelligence in favor of working on some boring web application at Google because... they have free laundry service! Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
- agarc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't understand why this is on digg... It's not news and it's not new information...
- cvrti5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One free day at a ski resort? Big deal.
Laundry? Who the hell does laundry at work.
Plus, according to the article:
"Historically, Google has paid workers less than the industry standard and showered them with stock options."
So now that their stock is topped out, you are making nothing.
Then to get hired, you have to take their stupid IQ tests and interview with 10 people.
People must be hard up for a job if they consider Google. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Oh how the google is frickening turning into Microsoft...
http://www.coffeetornado.com
Coffee - Estazor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0"What about their French benefits?"
I don't know lloyd the french are *****.
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