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assignment 5
1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?
The workers in there work even better because they can feel free to express themselves, they can do what they want, things that you would never imagine, such as gym, free food, massages, laundry, cars, all of that for free for the employees to feel more comfortable and for them to like their jobs, if they like their job they would eventually work better and the results of that better working would make Google improve even more than usual.
2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?
Because the employees can just do something wild, out of the usual, something that they think that would make google better, it improves a lot the way google is friendly with the users and it also makes the people feel more relative to the program. The employees have that 20% of their time to do anything they want, any wild idea, modification project they have on mind that I they think is a good idea google would automatically modify google to that idea, that also makes the people that work there to feel like their ideas do matter in a huge way and that what they do if is creative would be taken into consideration.
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
You need to be really creative, creative enough to come up with designs, to think out o the box and think different than others because they would obviously wont need a normal person but someone that has potential an that's worth the try, you need to be able to work with a team, have leadership because most of the time you would be working with a new project in the one you have to be the leader and come up with great ideas
4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Every day Google answers more than one billion questions from people around the globe in 181 countries in 146 different languages
5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
Having algorithms does really helps people specially when you're not really sure about what you're going to search so you jut type in a few words, and it also makes the search easier because it immediately searches for information that they consider accurate, which most of the time is right.
6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?
Because if everybody could access to the data center the way that Google works could be copied from other search engines, and then Google would no longer be unique or special and yet not the best searching web page world-wide.
7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
There are many services and is a friendly environment. Its all amazing, from getting free food, to free doctors visit and much more. You have free time that you could spend it in the library or in other places and the offices are different making working for Google a joyful experience.
you can clean your clothes in their installations, there are different restaurants and you can eat in them by free, also there is a room for the employees that has fish tanks so they can relax and after it work better, also they have sleep balls.
8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?
Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions.
Transform the way companies interact with customers and help businesses grow.
Be the heart and soul that keep them moving.
Create innovative solutions to a google of challenges and keep the business on track.
Expand the business into new territories.
9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?
Google Glass is a wearable computer that lets you read your tweets, check calendar appointments, the weather, and a ton of other things without pulling your smartphone out. The screen rests right above your field of vision making it easy to glance up to get info.
Is for us to be mote safe and less accidents.
We don't expect to see this one anytime soon but its still very interesting that Google has this project on its wish-list.
10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?
because they don't hace that much of experience they are barely starting and they are some peolple that later they want to make there own companey.
11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
that in google you found thing more easily,fast and are more secure than others like yahoo is a web page that are answers or opinions of other people, and other more web pages are almost the same as google but also way too different.
The workers in there work even better because they can feel free to express themselves, they can do what they want, things that you would never imagine, such as gym, free food, massages, laundry, cars, all of that for free for the employees to feel more comfortable and for them to like their jobs, if they like their job they would eventually work better and the results of that better working would make Google improve even more than usual.
2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?
Because the employees can just do something wild, out of the usual, something that they think that would make google better, it improves a lot the way google is friendly with the users and it also makes the people feel more relative to the program. The employees have that 20% of their time to do anything they want, any wild idea, modification project they have on mind that I they think is a good idea google would automatically modify google to that idea, that also makes the people that work there to feel like their ideas do matter in a huge way and that what they do if is creative would be taken into consideration.
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
You need to be really creative, creative enough to come up with designs, to think out o the box and think different than others because they would obviously wont need a normal person but someone that has potential an that's worth the try, you need to be able to work with a team, have leadership because most of the time you would be working with a new project in the one you have to be the leader and come up with great ideas
4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Every day Google answers more than one billion questions from people around the globe in 181 countries in 146 different languages
5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
Having algorithms does really helps people specially when you're not really sure about what you're going to search so you jut type in a few words, and it also makes the search easier because it immediately searches for information that they consider accurate, which most of the time is right.
6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?
Because if everybody could access to the data center the way that Google works could be copied from other search engines, and then Google would no longer be unique or special and yet not the best searching web page world-wide.
7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
There are many services and is a friendly environment. Its all amazing, from getting free food, to free doctors visit and much more. You have free time that you could spend it in the library or in other places and the offices are different making working for Google a joyful experience.
you can clean your clothes in their installations, there are different restaurants and you can eat in them by free, also there is a room for the employees that has fish tanks so they can relax and after it work better, also they have sleep balls.
8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?
- Engineering & Design
Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions.
- Sales & Account Management
Transform the way companies interact with customers and help businesses grow.
- Administrative
Be the heart and soul that keep them moving.
- Finance
Create innovative solutions to a google of challenges and keep the business on track.
- Partnerships
Expand the business into new territories.
9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?
Google have this project because that makes things more easier and fast.
- Google is already developing an Android-powered smartwatch to compete with Apple.
- Google Glass is already changing how we interact with our smartphones.
Google Glass is a wearable computer that lets you read your tweets, check calendar appointments, the weather, and a ton of other things without pulling your smartphone out. The screen rests right above your field of vision making it easy to glance up to get info.
- The Driverless Car Program will one day allow us to drive safer.
Is for us to be mote safe and less accidents.
- An elevator to space, while unlikely, would change space travel.
We don't expect to see this one anytime soon but its still very interesting that Google has this project on its wish-list.
10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?
because they don't hace that much of experience they are barely starting and they are some peolple that later they want to make there own companey.
11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
that in google you found thing more easily,fast and are more secure than others like yahoo is a web page that are answers or opinions of other people, and other more web pages are almost the same as google but also way too different.
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