Life at Google
Get to know who we are - from the inside out. From our history and culture, to the people behind our products, get the inside scoop on all things Googley.
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Fortune Names Google the 2014 “Best Company to Work For”
Fortune Magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute named Google the 2014 “Best Company Work For.” This marks our fifth time at the top of the list. While we’re honored to be included, what makes us proud is the recognition of the great contributions Googlers make to the communities in which we live and work.
![Fortune Names Google the 2014 “Best Company to Work For”](/web/20140708084835im_/http://www.google.com/about/careers/files/story_google-named-best-company-to-work-for-2014_image_635x635.jpg)
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Do Cool Things That Matter
Googlers solve complex problems everyday in the name of our core mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible to our users. But what makes working at Google truly unique is the workplace culture that encourages innovation and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Watch Alan Eustace, SVP of knowledge, explain the secret ingredient that makes Google a great place to work: our people.
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Thinking big: Larry Page talks moon shots
Whether it’s creating self-driving cars or translating the web into 64 languages, we love big bets. Our company culture encourages experimentation and the free flow of ideas. This perspective is not limited to our engineering teams and technical roles, but extends to all Googlers who share a desire to challenge what’s possible.
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Google by design
Since Larry Page took over as CEO in 2011, we've been more focused than ever on improving the user experience across all of our products. Learn how our design teams worked together to engineer a creative revolution in this story from The Verge.
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Creating an office for work and play
When you want people to think creatively and push the boundaries of what’s possible, their workspace shouldn’t be a drab maze of beige cubicles. Our offices have become well known for their innovative, fun and—some might say wacky—design. Like most of our decisions, data shows that these spaces have a positive impact on productivity, collaboration and inspiration. Simply put, we aim to make our offices a place that Googlers want to be. A reporter from The New York Times stopped by our Manhattan offices and was surprised by what he found.
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Benefits
When it comes to our benefits and perks, we have everything you'd expect from a large company, like health insurance, retirement benefits and so on. But we also offer way more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are, and they're designed to take care of the whole you and keep you healthy, whether physically, emotionally, financially or socially.
How we hire
Our process is pretty basic; the path to getting hired usually involves a first conversation with a recruiter, a phone interview and an onsite interview at one of our offices. But there are a few things we've baked in along the way that make getting hired at Google a little different.