Life in the Googleplex
Creative Minds, People April 7th, 2007
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April 9th, 2007 at 9:10 am
i hate dogs..
April 9th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I would fight a bear to work for google.
April 9th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Hi,
I’m working for Hitachi in Japan as help-desk.
Looking at Googleplex, I’m thinking I’d like to work
there as well.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:02 am
I hate cats. pussy!
April 11th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I would eat broccoli AND cauliflower every day for a year to work at Google !!
April 11th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I would fight a cat to work at Hitachi.
April 11th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
hmmm probly no cats cuz they will kill the wirers…..
April 11th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Who exactly is Google overcharging to spend money so frivolously? In a competitive / fair market these excesses are not realistic. Sorry to be a bummer, but they are obviously taking a LOT of money from someone?
April 11th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Can I send my resume to you?
April 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I’d fight two bears and leave my wife…
Then, I’d leave my wife either way.
April 11th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
how do toy get a job there?
thats AMAZING!
April 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Now all I need to do is graduate and move west.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
those girls are ugly, yo!
April 11th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I saw a piece recently, i think it was on 60 minutes about how great it was to work for Google. What a great gig that must be….
April 11th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
I’m with Tripp here.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I like dogs AND cats. Screw the both of you!
I would attempt to hug a bear to work for google.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Googlers all over the world are cool.I`m from Norway:)
April 12th, 2007 at 4:34 am
wicked.. I have all the right qualifications to work there!
Pool : 6 years of training
s.pool : 15 years of swimming
making funny looking idea maps: 10 years
Eating gourmet food : only 2 years of practise , but i am very motivated to improve my skills in culinary delights
I want to have the position of mad scientist (no science , just vague ramblings) or the position as “google bum”
Yes and my fee is one million dollars . mo ha ha , and the same goes for my dog “nikita” , she should only eat kaviar and goose liver prepared in a tower… with some decoration of some sort.
April 12th, 2007 at 5:51 am
I like my job better, centre stage music, longford Ireland, where all my dreams come true, no nerds, no cats. Big happy out to all at google though, and, get a bigger pool.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:34 am
[quote]Michael @ April 11th, 2007
Who exactly is Google overcharging to spend money so frivolously? In a competitive / fair market these excesses are not realistic. Sorry to be a bummer, but they are obviously taking a LOT of money from someone?[/quote]
It’s aaall publicity, Michael… All publicity…
I’d fight a bear with a chopstick the moment after donating my kidney and half of my blood to work for Google. After all, I learned Pascal in second grade
April 12th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Well sorry stock market also is lots of profit for Google… I think… As well as a few software packs - though they’re all bargain… Lemme see… What else brings profit… Well it’s the best (even though not flawless - search for “GOOGLING”.. On google, of course) search engine it MUST have some profit after all…
In the end that’s a very good question there, Michael - Where’s all that profit coming from? We all know publicity is a never ending source of profit, but I also know about some calculations about Google profit that were saying they earn a few cents per search query… I don’t really know where that money comes from but I surely know there’s no coin slot in MY PC… I’ll try to find out. I’ll bookmark this one and I’ll return with an answer. Or something better than my last post…
April 12th, 2007 at 8:58 am
@Dan
take a look at http://www.google.com/adsense
That’s where their money comes from
April 12th, 2007 at 9:45 am
What they are taking is not money. What they are taking is employee time. Employees WANT to work there, and want to work there LONG HOURS. Why not? Everything you could want is right there. They try to make it a home. I for one, would rather actually have my OWN home. It’s worth the money for Google to do this. The return on employee commitment is HUGE.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:49 am
Yes, I knew the adsense stuff. But there must be MORE
And it’s just as I expected: [excerpt from Wikipedia]
“Financing and initial public offering
The first funding for Google as a company was secured in the form of a $100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.[23] Around six months later, a much larger round of funding was announced, with the major investors being rival venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.[23]
Google’s initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004. 19,605,052 shares were offered at a price of $85 per share.[24] Of that, 14,142,135 (another mathematical reference as √2 ≈ 1.4142135) were floated by Google and 5,462,917 by selling stockholders. The sale raised $1.67 Billion, and gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 Billion.[4] The vast majority of Google’s 271 million shares remained under Google’s control. Many of Google’s employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited from the IPO because it owns 2.7 million shares of Google.[25]
Google’s post-IPO stock performance has been very good as well, with shares surging to $500 by 2007, due to strong sales and earnings in the advertising market, as well as the release of new features like the desktop search function and personalized home page.[26] The surge in stock price is fueled primarily by individual investors, as opposed to large institutional investors and mutual funds.[26]
The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG.”
Click on my name to find out the rest.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Oh yeah, one more thing (I just love double posts
)
“The company had 10,674 full-time employees as of December 31, 2006″
April 13th, 2007 at 5:01 am
I hate dogs too. Why won’t they let cats in.
Fools.
Plus Google is evil.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Let me guess, Laurence, you worship Bill Gates, right?
I kid.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I was reading the post and it occured to me that they are just trying to boost their return from their employees. But what worries me is that the people will try to work such long hours that they won’t get any family time in.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
[quote]#
Tripp Page @ April 9th, 2007
I would fight a bear to work for google.[/quote]
If you win, I’ll fight you to work for google, otherwise, I’ll settle for the bear.
April 14th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Most of us are in the Prison, @ work setup, well Google’s one prison I could work @.
Just in case you ever get these two environments mixed up, this should make things a little bit clearer.
IN PRISON……….you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell.
AT WORK…………you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.
IN PRISON………you get three meals a day.
AT WORK……….you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
IN PRISON……….you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK…………you get more work for good behavior.
IN PRISON………the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK………..you must often carry a security card and open all the doors for yourself.
IN PRISON……….you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK…………you could get fired for watching TV and playing games.
IN PRISON………you get your own toilet.
AT WORK………..you have to share the toilet with some people who pee on the seat.
IN PRISON………..they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK………….you aren’t even supposed to speak to your family.
IN PRISON………all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
AT WORK………..you get to pay all your expenses to go to work, and they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
IN PRISON……….you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK ………..you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
IN PRISON…….. .you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK…………they are called managers.
April 14th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Cats would be all around the place: on the screens, in the fans, and - most importantly - on the keyboards. Imagine what would happen if a cat would jump on an unattended PC’s keyboard
All addsense would crash and burn
April 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Now there’s a place i could be happy to be at Work.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Lol Pete wrote his message while I was writing my last one
Nice one, Pete 
April 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
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April 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
[quote}Who exactly is Google overcharging to spend money so frivolously? In a competitive / fair market these excesses are not realistic. Sorry to be a bummer, but they are obviously taking a LOT of money from someone?[/quote]
google dont overcharge anyone they just get so much money in ads cause there ads get shown on millions of computer screens a year. what company wouldnt pay to have there ads on google search and on so many websites?
April 21st, 2007 at 9:17 am
It all looks pretty damn cool, until you actually work there. Not that I work there, but it’s all just so you never have to leave.
I’ll bet that on your first day there, they serve you a nice big glass of Google Kool-Aid.
April 21st, 2007 at 9:19 am
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wouldn’t do ANYTHING to work there.
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I have read all the comments…Spent 40 years doing building contracting where I made little money but I was the boss…That said the best 2 comments was from Kari above…She has life figured out better than she knows in fact…Best of luck to you Kari…
Someone else can not plan out your life’s ups and downs for you…Never give up control to others without really understanding what it will cost you…My 4 cents…
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I wonder what it takes to get a job with them.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:35 am
DUDE!!!!! Now there’s a workplace. I would fight a tiger and bring in its head to support the “NO CATS” rule! Cats are evil!
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May 1st, 2007 at 7:19 am
well according to frends who are already working inside, it aint all rainbows n sunshine….pictures only paint what the painter wants you to see.
Find people who are already working inside, ask them if they still want to work there in the next couple of years…you’ll be surprised!!
May 1st, 2007 at 6:05 pm
those were pictures in Newsweek( a year or two ago), with the captions almost identically copied.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Whoever said that they’re overcharging to pay for these excesses is completely wrong! Larry, Sergey and the CEO Eric Schmidt don’t even take a salary!
May 1st, 2007 at 7:33 pm
What a cool work place.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
I’d date my ex again to work for them…and thats saying a lot
May 1st, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I HATE CATS!!!
LOVE DOGS!!!
Google looks like a fun place to work!
May 1st, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Moany people just create problems for themselves. Its simple - playing with toys and eating free gourmet meals MAKES ME HAPPY yadayadayada.. go google
May 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pm
If I can slack off and do nothing, sign me up.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I was there a few weeks ago. It’s that cool. There is also a spaceship hanging in the lobby.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
It’s all about 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
May 1st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
rubbish. not a single photo has nachos
they should make dog nachos with all those loose dogs (and kids)
May 1st, 2007 at 11:28 pm
anyone from google care to comment ?
good or bad comments accepted.
btw, what is the attrition rates in google (e.g. people leaving google). And what is the main reason for leaving google? (other than earning enough already)
May 2nd, 2007 at 2:39 am
Looks like the next Enron (or WorldCom). Don’t get me wrong, the idea is really appealing. It’s like the new vision of utopia for the 21st century: a job that you love to go to.
A while back I worked for a very cute/wonderful/earthy/fun/family company. They too tried to make the workplace a happy home for all of us. Ultimately, they failed. Eventually the bottom-line won out (or at least the numbers that represent the immediate bottom-line won out). Today, that same company that was so awesome seven years ago is a stale company with poor moral. They’re having trouble simply treading water.
Besides, it doesn’t really take a rocket scientist to look at all the Google PR and recognize that something’s wrong with their presentation. They’ve grown extremely rapidly–with few results to show for all the expansion (most of “their” new innovations come from other companies they’ve purchased; how many Google products can you think of that have made a splash since they went public?). It appears to me that they’ve become a monolithic company where relatively nothing gets done. They have tons of money, lots of talent, and no focus.
Their PR department is working overtime trying to keep their image intact and consistent, and keep people from realizing that Google’s “success” is just another mirage.
In a year or two–or three or four–we’ll all be reading about how Google got too big for its britches; how the users/stock holders believed so strongly in the company (that it could do no wrong) that the company started to believe it too, and completely lost its grip on its own success. Google appears to me to be–sadly enough–a one (or two) trick pony.
The future isn’t comprised of massive companies like Microsoft (or Google), but instead of much smaller, flexible, mobile, innovative, and focused enterprises.
I fear for the fallout when Google goes down. They’ve had their day, just like Yahoo (and Lycos, and Netscape, etc.) had theirs.
Like Enron and Worldcom, Google has attracted excessive investor interest because it’s selling what the world wants most: hope and dreams. Everyone wants to make a quick buck and a sure thing.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 am
am surprised any work gets done at all. woo.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:11 am
I’d ride the dog to work for Google!!!!!!!!!!
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 am
Wow, haven’t seen these pics in years. Great find!
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:18 am
@Tripp Page
Step 1. acquire beets.
Step 2. Fight the bear that comes to eat the beets.
Step 3. claim your prize of “job at google”.
Step 4. profit?
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 am
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May 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 am
I’m very jealous
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 am
Just incase you would like to know…
In India, Google has made a record of sorts with 0% percent attrition in 3 years.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:11 am
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May 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 am
its still WORK no matter what it’s dressed up as!
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 am
Dan,
Google as a company make no money from their stock price going up. The individuals who own shares can make money that way. You’re right about the IPO though.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 am
remember that baby looking at earth from space, at the end of “2001: A space odyssey”? that was google….
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:17 am
i would fight a bear with my bare hands and one of them being tied behind my back.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 am
@ Pete
In Prison……Forced Ass sex.
In Work……..No forced Ass sex.
I’d rather be at work.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Google might make a more attractive place to work if the focus weren’t on jailing employees at the office but rather encouraging creative and flexible ways for employees to work remotely from one or more locations.
-/\/
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Cat haters.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Lifeguard? WTF?
I can get over the self indulgence everywhere else but a lifeguard for one swimmer? LOL
Also, I would hate swimming in an Everpool with some guy watching me. Whatever.
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm
It is so obvious a man is in charge at Google.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
They do take salary - in 2006 it was $1.00.
However, their stock options equate to billions… I’ll take the options………..keep the salary!
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
You think Google has it good you should see Altavista!
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
I would get forced ass sex from a bear to work at Google.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
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May 3rd, 2007 at 4:25 am
Excellent! I reckon they must rate as one of the top employers in the USA… fantastic that they can be so good to employees, yet still be so competitive in the marketplace.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:35 am
Man…. I’m gonna study REAL hard now… gotta work there :-s
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
I’m a MILLIONAIRE, You’re Not, so YOU SUCK! I OWN YOU ALL! See my ferrari… Thats me leaving you in the DUST! OWND!
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
FIGHT A BEAR AND LOOOOOOOOOOOOSE! Then where are ya, eh? Dead that’s where you are, dead, no use to Google, silly notion that… we’re the Knights that say Nee, nee, nee
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Viata in Googleplex
Alte imagini de pe planeta Google.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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May 3rd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
No cats?
Screw ‘em, then. If I can’t have my cat on my lap while I type, I can’t code.
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May 4th, 2007 at 5:59 am
I’d let a bear force me to have ass sex in prison for a job at Google.
May 6th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Carlo the poolboy. Just because you clean pools for millionaires does not mean you are a millionaire. Silly pool boy.
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October 8th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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November 28th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Hi.
Good design, who make it?
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