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more about #googleplex more comments → xckack: In order to be hired there even though you scored a 1, you essentially have to be a total rockstar. Let's say you've got your PhD in crypto, worked f... more » Moonshine Mike: Hard to say, because I flunked a phone interview with them (second or third one) and got bounced. #google more » raincoaster: The guy who wrote Dress for Success in the 70's is a statistician by trade, and he once analyzed the success of various hiring techniques. The best in... more » lord002: I went through an interview with Google and, of course, this is going to sound like sour grapes, but it ain't ... really. I've got 20 years on the li... more » pepelicious: To be fair, most of the questions are about cupcakes. #google more » edosan: So let me see if I get this: First, they come up with a battery of ridiculous questions, then they look at the people that do the worst at answering ... more » Niko Bellic: Google is The Devil. more » TheBusinessGuy: Hey, Google isn't alone here. Conde Nast eliminated the free Orangina. more » Magister: I realize that this may come across as harping, but... Google has invested in Wojcicki's company at the behest of a founder. Google is not subject to... more » BadUncle: I just like it when they stop using the cattle prod. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that... more » shostakobitch: doesn't every company started by some fruit-booted shitass in a garage that makes it big go through the same tired cycle of plucky-futurist-luxuriatin... more » Sandogg: When I'm running late to the neighborhood potluck, and I don't have time to go to the market, pasta salad is my go to dish that I can whip up little ... more » TedSez: Seriously, that pasta salad was the kind of thing I used to make for my college food co-op. On the other hand, it seemed unfair for the show to keep... more » ___: Is it just me or are the competitors on Top Chef this season incredibly uneven? Preeti and some of the others(including that large girl with all the ... more » -
#jobs
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees. More » -
#perks
Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
Google used to say its lavish perks bolstered productivity and, if anything, would only grow more posh. But a recession changes things. Now the official line is more like, just be happy you're working, you ungrateful fucking pigs. More » -
#googleplex
Top Chef Flunks Google
Not to step on Brian's toes — full Top Chef recap is coming — but it was not a good night for Googlers. If you click this, you do not get to complain about spoilers. More » -
#googleplex
Google Chef in Top Chef Clam Embarrassment
Google must not be big on fresh shellfish in the company cafeteria, judging from executive chief Preeti Mistry's Wednesday performance on Top Chef. The Cordon Bleu graduate figured she'd just shuck the little beasties like oysters. Whoops! More » -
#googleplex
Google Cancels Prom
The annual "Google Dance," which drew thousands of search conference attendees to Google's Mountain View headquarters each summer, has been canceled this year, a victim of cost cutting. The outcry only confirms our early judgement of the event: hopelessly lame. More » -
#googleplex
Google Moves in with Founder's Wife's Company
Google's complicated relationship with its founder's wife just got more tangled. Anne Wojcicki's genetic-testing startup, 23andMe, not only took a second round of funding from the company — it's now cohabitating with the search giant. More » -
#cubicleculture
Facebook Heckling Rampage By Kara Swisher
As co-host of the Wall Street Journal's $5,000/head D conference, reporter Kara Swisher demands best behavior from her guests. Invite her to your startup, though, and she'll taunt your chef, heckle bizdev and mock your taste. More » -
#cubicleculture
Jeering Googlers Bring Entitled Coworkers In Line
Google is reportedly flooded with Yahoo résumés. We'd recommend an overtly modest approach to anyone who scores an interview: Google has lately been brutal in handling presumptuous, entitled transplants. More » -
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#googleplex
Is Working at Google a Brain Malfunction?
Blogger Joe Clark, still fuming over the mathematical mistreatment of Google designer Doug Bowman, explains that Google is populated by people with cases of "extreme male brain." -
#layoffs
Google Execs in Secret Layoff Meetings
More layoffs are coming to Google, employees there believe. A Googler tells us top executives abruptly cancelled meetings across the Googleplex Friday.
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#geeksgonewild
Who's Saying 'Fly Me' to Eric Schmidt?
How does Eric Schmidt do it? The computer nerd runs Google, has Obama's ear, parks his jet fleet in a NASA hangar, and has a rocking girlfriend. Is she the reason he flies so much? More » -
#cupcakeprincess
Lesley Stahl Investigates Marissa Mayer's Matchless Fashion Sense
After having her image frosted by the New York Times and Charlie Rose, Google VP Marissa Mayer, the cupcake princess of search, is hungry for more press. Luckily, Lesley Stahl arrived to spread more on! More » -
#free
Google, No Longer the Land of the Free
The accountants have taken over the Googleplex, once a hotbed of amiably unprofitable innovation. The notion that ads would pay the way for everything has been dropped — and "fee" is replacing "free." More » -
#googleplex
Google Serving Up Hubris at Shuttered Café
Since Valleywag broke the news that Google was closing two of its free cafés this week, they've been busier than ever as hyperentitled Googlers race to get one last taste. And complain about the lines. More » -
#foodfight
Google Closes Two More Cafés
Google's nerd-heaven Mountain View, Calif., campus is losing two more of its free-for-employees cafés this Friday when Jean-Claude Balek's Basic Deli, well-reviewed for its house-made charcuterie, and 5ive shut their doors. More » -
#cutbacks
Fear and Loathing on the Google Shuttle
Googlers, used to being coddled by the luxuries of the Googleplex, now worry they'll have to pay to ride the company shuttle bus. It's the latest sign of the giant search engine's nervous breakdown. More » -
#perks
Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
How soul-draining it must be to work at the world's best company! Hence the introduction of Google's School of Spiritual Growth, an arm of the search engine's in-house university. More » -
#perks
Filet mignon on menu at Google's NYC holiday party
Google is throwing not one, not two, but three holiday parties for its New York employees this year. Such is the cash-flush search engine's definition of austerity. -
#perks
Google's austerity campaign
The best place to work in America is becoming like every other big corporation. Google, at its heart an overgrown advertising agency, is most famous for its lavish perks. Now those are disappearing.
