![]() ![]() Keeping on target… arcade games on Google campus at Mountain View HQ, California. And somebody mailed in a shoe with this foot-in-the-door joke the hope, presumably, that an acceptance letter would be sent by return post. He was offered, once, a discount on a motorhome in return for an offer. People try to grease him, impress him, plead with him, threaten him. On a wall he keeps a small display of some of the worst (Bock prefers “silliest”) submissions that have come in. Bock puts the average applicant’s odds at about 400/1. In his office, Laszlo Bock, head of people operations, handles the claims from outsiders asking: “Please let me be Googley.” Each year, around 2 million apply for a job here and 5,000 are hired. Most sit at desks, today, frowning and purposeful, but one young staffer has taken a laptop to an indoor picnic table, next to the hammock. Upstairs in what Google calls its people operations department – human resources – there’s a climbing frame. Employees at this £250bn company get stock options as a basic condition of employment. It is a request that visitors remember to wear security badges also that they don’t steal any of the stuff that’s been left around for staff enjoyment – pedal bikes, sombreros, electric guitars. I nside a lobby at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, beside a rank of 1990s arcade machines, a laminated sign asks people to “Please Be Googley”. ![]()
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