It is Awesome to work in World's best place Google!!!!

As usual Google has re-written the standards for the best company to work for on the planet EARTH!!!! Fortune magazine conducted a survey of over 100,000 employees across 450 plus companies to decide the best place to work in this world, no doubt Google was ranked NUMBER 1. Click here to read the article from Fortune Magazine.

What makes Google No 1? The list of the answer goes on and on and on...As I always say Google is the employee centric company it believes employees are the most valuable ones for the company. Experts like Jordan Rohan (Jordan Rohan is a internet analyst. His consistent track record in calling the ups and downs of search companies makes his thoughts and insights well worth attention) say:

Google = Corporate Campus + University Playground.

A company that was started by 2 PhD students with a million dollar is now 150 billion dollar company. The company that believes in the fact that "Don’t be Evil" has 9000 brave soldiers (Dedicated employees) working for it world wide.

Google has out ranked its competitors with a huge difference in many aspects, some of the facts and figures are:

Best company to Work for Google – 1 Yahoo- 44 Microsoft- 50

Dream company for scholars Google- 1 Yahoo n Microsoft I am not sure 

Number of Resumes sent for Jobs: Google 25 EVERY SECOND Yahoo n Microsoft few resumes per minute or day.

Number of new users per month Google- 75 million, Yahoo n Microsoft need not say its much less 

In fact we can say Google does not have any comparison for the speed with which it is progressing for example: Youtube was taken over by paying 1.65 billion dollar's which no company would ever dare to do, tie-up with Nasa.........

I wish Google all the best and would love to see it on Top in every aspect of business and Technology.

Comments are Welcome.

Ur's
Raghav

Google’s third R&D head hired on 17th Oct.

Google India (Bangalore R&D team) hired Ram as it's R&D Head. The R&D Head is none other than, Yahoo!’s chief technology officer in India, Prasad Bharat Ram. For complete article click Here.

Got offer from Google

It was around 9:15 am on 16th October, I woke up from my bed...did the usual prayer while opening the eyes and the first thing, I did was saw my mobile phone. Wat do, I see now 1 MISSED CALL. Guess who it was???? Yes the call was from Google Inc's HR. I gave a call back to check wat was the call about???

HR said: "Raghavendra hi, your papers have been approved by our US team and You have been selected. Congralutions" I was literally on air. happiness knew no boundaries...the moment i heard this I started jumping n danging.....since i was on call, I could not do it for a long.

She said we will be giving you the offer letter tomorrow....This one day was really heavy for me...I said ok.

It was around 2:30 in noon the HR calld me again and said , I will extend the offer to you now will taht be fine....I said ya great. Got the offer n Google rocks man.

The offer letter said joining date will be 30th October, I was happy but had the doubt will these guys (My current employer) relieve me on time? I said ok to sheela but still had that doubt, will I releived???

I went to my manager and explained him the whole senario, he said its great to know that u will be joining a firm like Google but sorry we cannot releive you by 30th, we have made strict rule to releive all the employees only after 1 months notice.

Things went on....I am joining Google on 13th November.

Raghavendra
"Nothing is my efforts everything is his grace"

Google Technology (Earth) helps farmers of 45 villages....

It has happend for the first time that Farmers are using Technology (Google Earth) to fight for there rights in India....The recent news reported by leading channels said how Google Earth is helping farmers in India big time.

Cheers to Google again for the Revolution in India

Raghu's Day out @ Google

It was around 6:00 am on Tuesday the 19 September, 2006 when my alarm started off with the wakeup tune, the sound had hardly reached my ears, I jumped out of my bed with excitement. (This happend after almost a decade that, I wokeup in first ring of the bell). The first thing that, I did was prayer: "Oh lord lead me, guide me, and bless me, I am going for an interview with a company, I always dremt of. Please help me God".

Yes, I had the interview with the Best company on this earth Google. I finished all my daily routine and rushed to Bangalore airport to catch my flight to Hyderabad. (The flight tickets were booked by Google). Flying with the king of good times (Kingfisher Airlines) was indeed a great experience. The breakfast, the hospitality, the facilities, the captain of the flight, Airhostess….everything was a delight. It was around 11:00 am when, I reached Hyderabad airport. As informed by Sheela (HR lady at Google) the driver was waiting for us with sign board (GOOGLE Raghavendra and Ayaaz Syed), I met him and we were waiting for other candidate to arrive (Syed). Had a formal introduction with each other and started to the Hi-Tech city were the google is located. It was truly a great drive (30 minutes from Airport).



After reaching Google office we were told to go to 7th floor, Google reception. We then entered all our details (Name, place, from, to visit), the security guard then gave us the sticker which we had to stick on our shirt for the whole day. I was very excited to have the Google sticker on my shirt I was now part of the worlds best company. We waited in reception for the HR lady she greeted us and made us feel comfortable. The reception is very unique at Google. U get to see the real-time queries on Google search and Google Earth, i.e When some one on the globe enters a string in google search, it is displayed on the query board, same is the case with Google Earth. Aisha then told us that we have three rounds to go today, I was almost nervous to hear that 3 more rounds is a huge thing (FYI, I had already completed 4 rounds on telephone).

Then the real action was about to begin: The interview ( I am very sorry but I am not supposed to blog anything about the interview rounds and stuff). I could not perform very well in 1st round coz of nervousness, next 2 rounds were superb. After the interview, I prepared sandwich and noodles for my self.

I would like to give a snapshot of the Break Out (Googlers call canteen as breakout place) at Google and other unique things which are only avalible in Google in this Universe:

1. The Brains (Talents known as employees of Google)
2. Unlimited Choclates every where in the office
3. The verity of soft drinks (from frooti, appy to Reb bull)
4. The free food and chats served hot and fresh
5. Loads of Toys and colorfull ballons....very colorful
6. The Body massager

This will be a never ending list......

Finally we were dropped to Airport in the Google Cab. We returned back to Bangalore with the great hope to join Google near future...........Many rounds were again conducted on phone after coming back and documents are now sent to USA for final verification....it is October 3, 2006 (3:00 pm), I am still holding my fingures crossed waiting for a positive result.....

I have learnt lots of good things and lessons about the corporate culture from Gogle....

Thanks to google for giving me the opportunity to attend the interview and thanks for the wonderful trip being sponsered....