GET THE JOB AT GOOGLE
The Easy Guides to Great Jobs
By Ninfa Chavez & Olivier Buigues
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About the authors
Ninfa Chavez: With 10 years’ experience as a professional recruiter for leading corporations and staffing agencies, Ninfa offers a fresh perspective for those on both sides of the interview process. Having placed hundreds of candidates, her expertise spans a range of industries including technology, pharmaceutical, banking, medical and allied health. Upon graduating Florida Southern with an honors degree in psychology, Ninfa believed professional recruitment was the most positive way she could apply her background in psychology.
Currently a professional recruiter for Miami Children's Hospital, Ninfa previously served in the role of Recruitment Manager for Norwegian Cruise Line where she managed, coached and developed a team of 17 field recruiters. Her recruitment background includes the corporate environments of Bank of America and Invivo (a subsidiary of Philips), and leading staffing agencies, Kforce and Smith Hanley Consulting Group. Passionate about recruiting, Ninfa volunteers her time to help job candidates prepare their resumes. In her down time, she plays the violin, surfs, paints and enjoys playing with her two little dogs, Keshi and Matisse.
Olivier Buigues: Throughout his career, Olivier has been interviewed by many multinationals across the globe. He worked in finance in London (UBS Asset Management) in consulting in Madrid (Frontier Management Consultants) and in hospitality in Club Med. He later specialized in marketing and worked his way up the hierarchy in Sony Europe, Sony Latin America and Sony America. After returning to Europe as Marketing Director at the headquarters of Philips in Amsterdam, Olivier opened a Telecommunication Business in France, his home country. He now regularly conducts interviews for his company. Olivier Buigues holds a B.A. in Economics from the ULB and a Master’s degree in Management from ESCP-Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Brief History Of Google – A Bedtime Story For Geeks.
Google’s Flat Management Structure
THE GOOGLE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
What Google Wants In A Job Candidate
The Competition – A Résumé Every 25 Seconds
The Google Phone Interview – Screening For False Positives
Your Future – Is There An App For That?
Everybody has heard of the incredible perks offered by Google. The media regularly covers the Googleplex and its free organic food, massages, pools… But the truth is that working at Google means helping people connect, communicate, and access information which can change the world.
That’s why getting a job at Google is much more than simply landing employment with a top company. It’s a noble way of sharing your skills and talents with humankind.
Exaggeration? The founders of Google don’t seem to think so. Take a look at the company’s mission statement since day one:
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Imagine working on code for a Google product – let’s say Google Android – then seeing it embraced by hundreds of millions global users. Wow.
Now that you’re feeling inspired, The question remains: How can you improve your chances at landing a job at Google?
This Is Where We Come In.
We’ve conducted extensive research and have assessed Google’s recruitment process from the perspective of an executive recruiter. The information we’ve compiled is the most current available. As you know, the Internet is jammed with advice on how to get a job at Google with the vast majority focused on landing a software engineering position.
Rather than duplicate this advice, we’ve focused on ways you can navigate the Google selection process while providing interviewers the bio-data they look for in every job candidate.
The good news – everything we’ve uncovered indicates there are significantly more opportunities to land a Google job this year than in previous years.
A Brief History Of Google – A Bedtime Story For Geeks
The year is 1995. Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University when Brin is assigned to give Page a tour of the campus. Sergey is 22, Larry is 21. A year later, the two computer science grad students begin working on what began as a dissertation theme: exploring the mathematical properties and link structure of the World Wide Web.
They collaborate on a search engine they name BackRub which determines the importance of individual web pages. BackRub operates on Stanford University’s servers for over a year. In 1997, Larry and Sergey decide to change their search engine’s name to Google. The new name is a play on the word googol, a mathematical term which represents the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.