Monday, September 16, 2013

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 the people that work there to be creative so the website can gain more success.
-The environment affects the people bye making them work hard and achieve major works.


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?
  The employee freedom helps employees relax and have more time to think on new proyects they may be stressed about.


3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
-To work for Google you have to mainly impress the interviewer by showing your creativity and your talent.

4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
- Handles more than 3 billion daily search queries.


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 Google algorithm makes our access easier, faster, and less complicated.


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?
-They keep the server room a secret because they wouldn't want other companies to get access to their information.



7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
If you are hired at Google you can probably get a job anywhere else. You get a lot of free stuff and you get paid really well.


8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?
-Software engineer: Google’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions interact, making accessible and useful the world’s information, and our ambitions reach far beyond just Search.
-Google tester: Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, value- and type-parameterized tests, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.
-Interaction designer:
  • Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
  • Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
  • Gauge the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.
  • -Recruiting coordinator: As a Recruiting Coordinator, you are responsible for the administration of employment processes in accordance with Google's hiring guidelines and policies.

    -Sales lead: As a Google Fiber Contract Sales Lead, you will be part of and help manage the team that evangelizes Google Fiber services to MDU (multi-dwelling apartments & condos) and SMB owners.

     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 Glasses : already exists
    -Form 1: already exists
    -Eye tribe- 2013



    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?
    -The prefer that the recent graduates create their own companies that to work for a company that os already one of the best ones in the world, they want new companies in the market to make competition to Google.


    11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
    -Google is different than yahoo and Bing because is more trust worthy and it contains more information than this other websites. The information from Google I think is always more complete and understandable for all types of ages.

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