Interview with Google.

[Kuyuk]

Monday 1pm.

Woot.


K.

[Stanley Burrell]

Bake Kranar a cake.

[Sean of the Thread]

I feel sorry for you.

[Sean]

I wonder how much you can make flipping pancakes for google.

[Sthrockmorton]

Position?

[Kranar]

I wish you the best of luck man. The chefs at Google are some of the best in the world. Have you seen the campus yet, do you live in the Mountain View area?

During the summer they opened up a new place called Pure Ingredients where literally you would take a chisel and chip away at chocolate statues. The place overall is just incredible and the chefs and maintenance/support staff there do an amazing job to keep it a fun and beaming place.

[Sean of the Thread]

Mmmm chisel... chocolate statue.... fun.

[Kuyuk]

Pastry Chef position, or line cook if they need one, I can always work up.


K.

[Kuyuk]

Went well, will find out tomorrow if they want my silly ass.

They asked me about hours, and I told them I've been working 80+ for 3 years, so it doesnt really matter.

I forget corporate dining is cake; 40-50 hour weeks, weekends off, and holidays too.

Cutting my work in half? Sold me!

K.

[Kranar]

Holidays you get off, but atleast in Mountain View there were chefs there on Saturdays and sometimes Sundays too.

Did you get to see the Atlanta office? Was it big? How many people do they have there?

Best of luck.

[Parkbandit]

The chefs at Google are some of the best in the world.

You are kidding, right?

[Kranar]

I'm not kidding one bit and I had no idea they went all out until working there.

Here's one guys photo blog of the food, the place takes its food seriously:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettlider/sets/154249/


It's actually kind of rediculous how far they go. One place (Cafe Five) regularly serves Kobe beef which normally costs 75 bucks per pound, and I remember the first time I had it I was just pilling on the patties. From time to time guest chefs come to take over some of our kitchens, I remember some of the guys from Iron Chef came by and that was tons of fun.

There are 17 restaurants on the main campus and each of them is run by 5 star executive chefs they hire from around the world (the rating comes from the Michelin Guide) and they're basically given a nice budget to do whatever they want and they do some pretty crazy stuff.

[Parkbandit]

Damn.. I had no idea.

What a colossal waste of money.

[Kuyuk]

PB is just upset because he eats
http://800lbgorilla.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/baconator.jpg




K.

[ViridianAsp]

Wow, I hope you get the job. I hear Google really feeds their employees well.

[AestheticDeath]

I want to work at Google... Too bad I guess...

[AestheticDeath]

So what happened Kuyuk?

[ViridianAsp]

Yeah, I want to know how it went too.

[Kuyuk]

Very excellent.

I've been working there for a few days now, Monday we open and start feeding employees. The kitchen and building are 100% new, so I'm spoiled rotten now.

Cool stuff there.

Unfortunetly, it's area 51 of google, so I cant say too much.

K.

[Anailea]

Congrats, that's awesome. I hope that it is a job that you love.

[Sean of the Thread]

I guess that's where he learned how to make 2girls1cup delight.

Dumbass.

[The Ponzzz]

Damn, locked down with an NDA there?

Good luck though! Make some awesome food, and stuff.

[ViridianAsp]

Awesome, I'm terribly jealous.

[Gan]

Very excellent.

I've been working there for a few days now, Monday we open and start feeding employees. The kitchen and building are 100% new, so I'm spoiled rotten now.

Cool stuff there.

Unfortunetly, it's area 51 of google, so I cant say too much.

K.

The cafeteria is 'area 51' as in do not discuss? Or the cafeterial is in an 'area 51' which means you cant discuss the area in which the cafeteria is in?

WTF can be so top secret about a cafeteria in a work complex of an internet based search engine company?

:puzzled:

[Artha]

Damn.. I had no idea.

What a colossal waste of money.

If there's one business that has no idea what it's doing with money, it's Google alright.

[Ignot]

The cafeteria is 'area 51' as in do not discuss? Or the cafeterial is in an 'area 51' which means you cant discuss the area in which the cafeteria is in?

WTF can be so top secret about a cafeteria in a work complex of an internet based search engine company?

:puzzled:

google is planing to take over the world

[Skeeter]

I have a top secret job that I can't discuss.... who does that sound like?

[Sean of the Thread]

I have a top secret job that I can't discuss.... who does that sound like?

Wezas.

Until I tracked down his job via a myspace trail just to fuck with him.

[Kranar]

If there's one business that has no idea what it's doing with money, it's Google alright.

It's just a different way of doing business. The company isn't run by the traditional suit and tie MBAs with years and years of corporate experience and the formalities and professionalism that go with it. The company was started by two geeky engineers in an actual garage who loved and continue to love doing research and computer science. What matters to the company, the employees, and it seems to investors isn't whether the corporation is full of people working 9-5 in a formal setting in the traditional manner, it's whether when all is said and done if the company is making money.

That's why when people throw out the notion that Google is somehow wasting money because it feeds its employees excellent food, makes sure they're treated with respect, are happy and engaged... as opposed to say paying off their CEO $160 million dollars to quit as a result of losing 8 billion dollars (http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/341517.html), I just shrug it off. Just look at Disney or Home Depot or many other examples of companies paying 100s of millions of dollars on executives who lost money and performed terribly, and yet when people hear that Google offers their profitable employees some nice and comforting perks to keep them happy and productive... oh well that's just an inexcusable collosal waste of money and an example of people being spoiled rotten. If that's wasting money then so be it, but the fact that Google consistently outperforms Wall Street's expectations over and over again speaks to the opposite.



I have a top secret job that I can't discuss.... who does that sound like?

Google has many private locations around the world that they don't publically disclose or want revealed, Microsoft has them too. These include some of their research facilities but more importantly their server farms.

With server farms there's an 'arms race' of sorts between Microsoft and Google. Both companies don't want the other to know how many data centres or computers they have. It's very hard to keep an actual building private, especially some of the newer ones which are absolutely massive... but knowing how many support staff work in a building can give you an idea of how many other employees work there, which gives an idea of how many computers are stored in that data centre so it doesn't surprise me that Kuyuk was told to keep low about the details.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I remember at AOL when we were flying high on super high PE ratios. We had much of the above, and when the PE ratios were fixed by the market, what do you think was the first thing to go?

They give you those things because they likely work you like a dog, and you love working like a dog (I did anyway), because you are part of a company making history.

It's cool to be part of a cutting edge company doing things no one else has done.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Pastry Chef position, or line cook if they need one, I can always work up.


K.

*jealouses*

I've been looking for about three months now for a good position to do my externship. :/

[Sean of the Thread]

Google is going down faster than lindsay lohan.

[Warriorbird]

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3343/bcuk9.jpg

Deshawn Stevenson wants Lindsay Lohan...does he want Google too?

http://blackvoices.aol.com/blogs/2007/10/18/deshawn-stevenson-hearts-lindsay-lohan-and-the-white-stuff/

[AestheticDeath]

Congratulations! Thats awesome. So how many other people from this place are gonna go work for Google?

[Sean of the Thread]

Congratulations! Thats awesome. So how many other people from this place are gonna go work for Google?

I think Jazuela applied for their food court Burger King as fry cook.