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Why are programmers, designers, managers want to work in Google
Talented programmers, designers, managers from around the world dream of working in Google. Why is this happening? This question is answered by the Vice President of Google by HR, Laszlo Higher Personnel. In his book "Work steers!" Bok talks about corporate features and motivation systems for employees common in Google.
Google teaches workers to set goals
The high performance of Google is easily explained by the methods that the company uses when setting goals. Google uses OKR (Objectives and Key Results) - “goals and key results”. The results should be measurable - if you managed to achieve the necessary indicators, then you have achieved your goal.
At the same time, Google deliberately sets ambitious goals, which he will not be able to achieve under any circumstances. If you achieve all goals, then you do not aggressively approach the goal -setting. As Larry often emphasizes: “If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and you will not be able to achieve it, you will still come to something wonderful.”
Therefore, at the beginning of each quarter, Larry puts OKR, prompting all others to make their personal OKR pull up to the general Guglovsky.
Google cares about employees' health
Each Google employee receives free dinners and snacks. Workers eat in two places. These are a cafe that offer two menus - either breakfast and lunch, or lunch and dinner. And micro -brown, where employees can independently prepare tea or coffee, drink soda and eat chips, chocolate and other snacks. However, as you know, such snacks negatively affect health.
In order to protect employees from harmful food and at the same time not to infringe on their rights and not change the established foundations, Google placed healthy products on open racks at the eye level, so that they could easily reach them. And more attractive snacks were put on shelves lower in opaque containers.
The result was stunning - the share of calories consumed with sweets fell by 30%, and the proportion of the consumed fats - by 40%, because people chose Musheli, flakes and fruits lying in sight.
Google appreciates the miracles
There are a group of engineers who do not miss a single meeting on Fridays. They sit in the first row and ask long and incoherent questions. Everyone of God is Friday. Beginners-huglers sometimes roll their eyes when the same people get up every Friday and begin to ask their questions. But those who are not the first day know what's what.
Among these monsters was a thin dark -haired man. He had pleasant manners, and each time it seemed that he did not ask a question, but broadcast. “Larry, ” he began, “ I recently heard an interesting story that [a five -minute retreat] ... And now I'm wondering if Google could not [a new five -minute retreat]?” Questions sometimes sounded like pure madness, and sometimes as a prophecy. He asked about two -factor authentication years before this idea was proposed. And then one day, ten years later, he retired. At the next meeting, someone else took his place in the front row.
He was one of Google's pioneers. I announced his departure by Eric Schmidt, and he said: it seems that we are becoming poorer, since we are leaving the worlds who formed with us from the very first day .