Editor’s note: This article was first published in September 2010; the Google recruiting practices, office list and reputation as ‘the best company to work for’ that it describes reflect that time.
Quite a few people have asked me what you need to do to work at Google, or whether Google has a job board with current openings. The answer is yes. Google is constantly expanding and innovating, so in the countries where it has offices, which are many, it is always recruiting new talent, the best in their field.
There are two very important requirements for working at Google. One is that you are outstanding in your speciality, and the other is that you have a perfect command of spoken and written English. There is a third requirement: once you go to the interview, at Google both the managers and any employee get a say. If you don’t fit in with the group, it doesn’t matter if you are the next Bill Gates; you won’t be welcome.
To see Google’s current openings and job board, there is a jobs page for Spanish speakers, although even there the openings are published in English and you will need to send your CV in English.
In the past it was said that if you wanted to work at Google, there was no need to contact them: if you were good at what you did, they would get in touch with you. Like Microsoft and Apple, Google finds future workers at universities, even before they have finished their degrees. They like people who stand out from a very young age.
You have the chance to work at any of its offices, in the United States, Dublin, Mexico and elsewhere.
Good luck with the competition, because when it comes to working at Google, there will be no shortage of it.
And if you do manage to join its staff, you will become part of what is supposedly the best company to work for: high salaries, recognition, a good working environment, a perfect balance with your family life, and so on.
Google has millionaire employees (literally). When they were starting out and Google went public, nobody trusted investing in a company of this kind, so Google shared out its shares among its employees. Today Google shares trade above 70 dollars, so its first employees became millionaires.
Further reading
- Ranking of the 10 companies that pay the best salaries
- Ranking of the 10 companies that take the best care of their employees
- 12 quotes to motivate you
Featured image: William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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