Assignment 5

1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers? working at Google encourages innovation in the workers because it lets their minds explore different new things and stray from the stress of being at a normal work office, it is easier for them to come up with new innovative ideas when the mind is not stressed. the fact that the workplace is fun makes the workers be excited to go to work and be happy to come up with new ideas instead of working forcefully.

2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business? it delivers better business because the workers have their mind free and ready to work, its not packed with other stressful thoughts. They are happy to come up with new ideas and are encouraged to think of new, different things.


3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google? Requirements to work at Google are having unique ideas, being innovative and having the desire to work and make Google successful. They look more at the persons unique ideas and excitement to work rather than the background they have.


4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
5,134,000,000 daily in 2012


 5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
it changes the way we access information because now we access information in a faster and easier way. instead of saying we need to research we say we need to Google it. the algorithms help us find many resources that may help our research and it opens wider information for us to use.

6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?
Google keeps its server room a secret, because if it didn't it probably wouldn't be what it is today. not everyone has access to the server room. it is very well kept and secret, only critical employees have been permitted a peek inside, it has high tech security to keep other people from accessing it.



7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
access to hightech objects, free food, free medical service, free massages, covered with travel insurance and emergency assistance, New parents get time off and some extra spending money to help them welcome their new bundle of joy,Googlers get legal advice at no cost.


8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

•  field engineering-Provide input from the field on revisions to proposed construction, Review and understand network designs
• network engineer- Rack and stack, install, commission and test routers, transport (DWDM) equipment, and other network devices in new and existing network nodes across Google's global network (travel domestically up to 50%).
• sofware engineer in test- Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• product manager- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy
• interaction designer- Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

• crisis response- develop tools like google public alerts, google person finder and google crisis map.
• google flu and dengue trends- used to show disease activity in near real-time  and calculates level of dengue activity for that area
• google for nonprofits- program offers approved nonprofit organizations access to exclusive google products and resources to expand their  impact. 

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?
in this article it says that recent graduates should not work at Google because by working in this large company they don't have that idea to make their own business or be at a high position, they think its enough to be an employee at this huge corporation. Innovation is necessary and the recent graduates aren't considering to take initiative to make their own business once they work for Google.


11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
Yahoo,Bing and Google are all search engines, however, google is a search engine that will focus on your interests it processes the information in order to give you more specific results. also google has more tools and wider options to use. it offers more relevant sources in order to make research easier and faster.