Assignment 5

 

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 workplace culture at google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company by motivating employees to create more things for google. Also by motivating them to become more creative because that's what google needs. What google needs is really smart and creative people for the company to succeed even more.

 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?
Employee freedom encourages employees by them wanting to go everyday to work and to come up with new ideas that will make google grow even more. Also that the freedom that google gives to the employees makes the company grow even more because this helps the employees to increase their capability of doing things that google wants their employees to do, such as being smart and creative.
 
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
The requirements to work for google are that you have to be very smart but not only that, also that you have to be very creative because of the way that google works. The difference between how normal jobs hire people and how google hires people is that for google, they hire you by how creative of a person you are. For example, a way that google can hire you is by giving you a Rubik's Cube and put you with other people in the same room and the first one to solve it gets to work for google.

4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Google handles 3 billion daily search queries a day.

5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
The way we all access information is very impressive. We can look something up and in less than a second we have in our hands what we need. It's amazing how just by clicking something, we have the information that we were looking for. The way we think about information is that it is very easy to find whatever type of information online.  

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?
Google would like to keep the server room as a secret because the noise is a high-pitched thrum from fans that control airflow. It is necessary for people to enter that room with hearing protection since the noise is a high-pitched.  

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
The benefits of working as a google employee is that the employees get a lot of things free. For example, they get really good food that is for free. They also get to wash their clothes there and the amazing part is that everything is free. The most amazing part is that they also lend employees a car for them to be able to go to work everyday.

8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

• field engineering-Provide input from the field on revisions to proposed construction, Review and understand network designs
• network engineer- Rack and stack, install, commission and test routers, transport (DWDM) equipment, and other network devices in new and existing network nodes across Google's global network (travel domestically up to 50%).
• sofware engineer in test- Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• product manager- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy
• interaction designer- Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features

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?

• risis response- develop tools like google public alerts, google person finder and google crisis map.
• google flu and dengue trends- used to show disease activity in near real-time  and calculates level of dengue activity for that area
• google for nonprofits- program offers approved nonprofit organizations access to exclusive google products and resources to expand their  impact.

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?
Recent graduates should not work at google because it's a huge company that has 33,077 employees worldwide. Previous recent graduates that have worked for google recommend that recent graduates should apply to a small company where they will have bigger responsibilities day one rather than just following the crowd and the well known path of joining a giant organization. It is better to actually be someone in your company than just one more number like in google. 

11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
The difference between google and other search engines such as Yahoo or Bing is that google is a very simple format to use. Similarities between these search engines are that the three of them are three different types of search engines that helps you look up information in a very fast way.