Editor’s note: This article was first published in January 2018. Google’s hiring requirements, interview process, office locations and its reputation as a top employer are described as they were at the time; Laszlo Bock left Google in 2016.
Quite a few people have asked me what you have to do to work at Google, whether the company has a job bank, and where they can send their CV. Google is constantly expanding and innovating, so it is always recruiting new talent, the best people in their fields.
Requirements for working at Google
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. That said, take a look at the vacancies and the positions they are hiring for.
There is a third requirement: once you get to the interview, at Google both the bosses and any employee have a say. If you don’t fit in with the group, you won’t be welcome.
But what better way to find out what you need to work at Google than to hear it from Laszlo Bock himself, who was in charge of people management for many years? In this article he explains his philosophy for hiring the best employees, so you can draw some lessons from it to help you understand what Google is looking for.
Where and how to send your CV to Google
To see Google’s current job openings and job bank, here is the link to its jobs page. Remember that your CV has to be sent in English.
It used to be said that if you wanted to work at Google, you didn’t 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 employees at universities, even before they have finished their degrees. In fact, it has become the favourite company for internships.
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You have the chance to work at any of its offices, whether in the United States, Spain, Dublin, Mexico and so on.
Good luck with the competition, because when it comes to working at Google, there will be no shortage of it.
Then again, if you do manage to join its workforce, you will be 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 employees who are millionaires (literally). When the company was starting out and went public, nobody trusted investing in a company of that kind, so Google shared out its shares among its employees. Google shares currently trade above 70 dollars, so its first employees became millionaires.
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