Subscribe via Email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Recent Comments

Google: The best place to work at?

Now, the Googleplex, I hear, is a great place to work at. Well, more like the kind of place I would like to work at.

The Googleplex has always been famous, but this photo-essay by Time Magazine gives an awesome insider’s perspective of what it’s like to work at the company that has been called, for a while now, the best company to work at.

Here are a few of the ‘perks‘:

  • They have a rock climbing wall.
  • You get to take your dog to work.
  • You get to work on couches. No need of those painful office chairs.
  • Recreation Facilities – Workout room with weights and rowing machine, locker rooms, washers and dryers, massage room, assorted video games, Foosball, baby grand piano, pool table, ping pong, roller hockey twice a week in the parking lot.
  • They have a rock climbing wall.
  • Free food. Healthy lunch and dinner- Gourmet cuisine at that. Snack Rooms with bins packed with various cereals, gummi bears, M&Ms, toffee, licorice, cashew nuts, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit and other snacks. Dozens of different drinks including fresh juice, soda and make-your-own cappuccino.
  • The cool 3D rotating image of the world the toggle switch that allows you to view points of light representing real time searches taking place all over the world.
  • Did I mention the rock climbing wall?

Hmmm…. Why oh why didn’t I take up computer science?

For all the NPoV sticklers, here is a Microsoft guy’s point of view.

P.S: Free food means free coffee right?!! :-D

  • acanofworms
    i've read a bit about google as a workplace, apparently its great for grads fresh out of college, since it gives you everything a university did, chilled out atmosphere, free tshirts, easy food..yadda yadda yadda, but i forgot the crux of the article, which was written by someone who had worked there and had left, prefering other workplaces, i was too fascinated by the description..
blog comments powered by Disqus

Please log in via Disqus, or Facebook, or Twitter before commenting.

You do NOT have to enter your Facebook or Twitter passwords if you are already logged in. You may log in to either service using another tab on your browser. Authentication via Facebook takes place using Facebook Connect and authentication via Twitter takes place via OAuth.

Disqus is a great way to manage your comments online- unlike on most blogs, with Disqus you may edit and delete your comments. You can also track your comments across blogs and reply to follow-up comments via email.

Guest comments are held for moderation.

Read the Comments policy.