Another insight on The dream job
Working for Google is often considered as The ultimate dream job for geeks and technos. Great pay, 20% free time for your “own” projects, full services including baby care, doctors, social security, … I probably forgot a lot of good reasons why Google is generating so much buzz around working inside the most secret company around. Yeah Google is hype but let’s face it, so far you could only see what PR let you see. I mean the videos are controlled, we are showed clean or almost commercial videos about how much fun is…work. I bet some of you already know by heart the “do no evil” motto and the 10 company values.
But you’ve got to be honest one second, no company is absolutely perfect. And along with the exceptionnal growth of Google, maintaining such values is really an hard (if not impossible) task in any company whatsoever. Not mentionning that Google is now in almost every single parcel of enterpreneurship. Every time you look around and try to build some new concept, you may face a huge Goliath (funny that starts with G too) already owning or launching a massive web application, that you can definitely not compete with in term of scalability or load or marketing resources. There is still a chance you can be David, but it’s becoming more slighter after each Google acquisition.
But with time and tough economic condition, it seems for the first time that some informations leaked out. I just read a couple of the answers to “Why Google Employees Quit“. This is really interesting, because IMHO it will help to figure out the real face of the G word. I even think that this more human presentation could really attract (more) people into working for Google, but this time for the right reasons and knowing what they are jumping into. Another aspect, one should monitor is how Google will handle this recession period in term of communication about layoffs: 30 000, 24 000, 20 000, … ? who relly knows how many people work in these undergrounds of search (see 10 000 layoffs and 6000 layoffs). So time will tell, if the “do no evil” can hold against rough conditions.
