Google's Recruitment and Selection Process

Recruitment and Selection JBCN International School

Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment and selection of Google

Submitted By:

Name: Yash Bhatt Class: IX Ekam

Subject: Business Studies Roll no. 1


Declaration

This is to certify that I prepared the BUSINESS STUDIES PROJECT titled “Recruitment and

Selection of Google Inc.”

The information submitted is true, original and to the best of my knowledge.

Student name: Yash Bhatt


Acknowledgement

Firstly, I would like to thank my business studies teacher Mrs. Kavita Antony for giving me such

a significant opportunity to demonstrate my talent in the topic of Recruitment and Selection.

I would like to use this opportunity to exhibit my gratitude to everyone who helped me

throughout this whole project, especially my guardian Mst. Prem Bhatt.


Summary

The project starts with an introduction of Google. The introduction consists of Google’s history

and all the services which Google provided on the internet till date. The main purpose of the

project was to know how Google recruits people and what their recruitment strategy is and what

qualities they look for in a candidate. The project also contains some interesting facts of

recruitment of Google and some interesting images. Project also includes about how Google

hires senior employees and middle new leaders. Google action plan is also included to give a

brief idea about how Google employs people.

Google also employs freshers; recently in 2014 in Hyderabad, India they had given offers for

freshers to join their company. The job description and eligibility is also given at the end of the

project.


Content

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1 Introduction of Google 6

2 Recruitment and Hiring of Google 7

3 Process of getting hired at Google 8

4 Facts of Recruitment of Google 9

5 Interesting images of Google 10

6 Recruitment Strategy and Recruitment Process 11

7 Middle and New Leaders Recruitment Process 12

8 Google Interviews 13

9 Freshers at Google 14


Introduction

Google is multinational company headquartered at the United States. It is a firm which mainly

deals with internet products and services. It started with a basic search engine which was initially

known backrub.com. On 4th September 1998 Google was known as Google. It also deals with

online advertising technologies, cloud computing, mobile phones and software. It initially

offered public on August 19th 2004. (19,605,052 shares)

The founders of Google are Larry Page, who is the current CEO and Sergey Bin. They met at

Stanford University in 1995. After a year they built a search engine called BackRub.com and on

1998 they named the search engine Google” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term

for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The formation of Google.inc occurred when Sun co-founder Andy

Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity which until then didn’t exist.

Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and

useful.”

Eric Schmidt is the current executive chairman of Google, who served 10 years as CEO after

2001 until April, 2011 when Larry Page took the title again.

In 2000 Google introduced Adwords a self serving program to create an online advertising

Campaign.

On 1st April Google introduced Gmail which is the current most famous mailing site.

In 2005 Google introduced Google Maps and Earth which is the current most accurate navigation

app and website.

In 2006 Google introduced online video sharing website called YouTube.com

In 2007 Gphones and Android was introduced by Google. Android, this is most famous

operating system software for mobile phones and tabs currently.

In 2008 Google introduced the fastest browser which is known as Google Chrome and G+ in

2011.


Recruitment refers to the “overall process of attracting, selecting and appointing suitable

candidates for jobs within an organization, either permanent or temporary. Recruitment can also

refer to processes involved in choosing individuals for unpaid positions, such as voluntary roles

or training programs.” It is not only about designating people on jobs which are vacant, it is

about making a continuous long term investment to build highly talented and capable workforce

who are passionate about their jobs and people who believe in accomplishing organization’s

current and future goals and missions.

How does Google hire people?

Google wants people who are good in many things and good for Google and good for role at

which they are designated or to be designated at. They look for people who are great in many

things, love big challenges and people who always welcome big challenges. They don’t put

many specialists in one field or area. They look for people who are good for Google not just now

but for the long term. This is actually the main part or core of how Google hires employees.

The basic process of recruiting starts with a conversation with the recruiter, then a phone

interview and in the end an onsite interview at one of their offices. The thing which makes

Google unique and different from others is the way they employ people as result Google was one

the best places to work in 2013 by Forbes Magazine.

Here are the few tricky questions which Google asks its candidates in an interview:

1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

2. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

3. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?

4. Why are manhole covers round?

5. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco

6. How many times a day does a clock’s hand overlap?

7. A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?


The process of getting a job at Google

1. Recruiter Screen- the recruiter checks every resume for technical requirements,

education and experience to make sure there is a potential fit. It is estimated that every

year Google receives 1 million resumes.

2. Phone screens- the recruiter contacts you by the medium of phone, explains the process

and tells you what to expect. If it’s engineering role then the recruiter may ask for your

SAT scores and college GPA.

3. On site interview- The first interview will be with four or five people for 45 minutes

each. You will have to solve technical problems which may include coding a solution or

white boarding a design if you are applying for technical role in Google. You may also be

asked the questions like “how many golf balls are there in a school bus?”or “There are 8

balls. Seven of them weigh the same but one is heavier. Using a balance scale, how do

you find the heavier ball with just two weighing?”

4. Interview Feedback- Every interviewer submits a feedback about a candidate in a

standard format and assigns a numerical ranking to the candidate. A search is done to

match the candidate’s resume to employee’s resume to find matches for schools or

companies for the year specified

5. Hiring Committee- The hiring committee consists of senior managers and directors, and

experienced employees from this domain. The committee sees all the potential candidates

for all the open jobs in a particular field. They are well experienced to appoint right

people for a right job. They have everything in mind before appointing candidates and

Google’s mission in recruitment is to appoint right people for the right job and people

who are right for Google. The committee reviews everything including the feedback from

the interviewer as well as the resume and the work experience.

6. Executive review- senior level management reviews every resume and every offer.

7. Compensation Committee- They calculate and determines the offer to be offered for the

candidate for a particular job.


8. Final Executive review- The tops Execs of the company looks at all employment offers

before employing a candidate.

9. The offer- The recruiter will apprise you an offer and will explain all details related to it.

Google offers are very competitive some people also tell it generous.

Hiring decisions are made by Hiring committee so there less possibility for bad decisions as the

decision is taken in group of experienced and highly qualified people.

Facts of recruitment of Google

1. Google is more focused on hiring for talent rather than focusing on specific skill sets.

2. In the past Google has used up to 29 interviews before granting an offer but their

optimized system lowered it 4-9 interviews. (source-Stephen Levy Book “IN THE

PLEX”)

3. In 2011, Google planned on hiring more than 6200 workers. This increased their

workforce by 25%

4. If Google increases their workforce by 25%, they will be still be 35% the size of

Microsoft.


A Billboard by Google-

Recruitment Strategy: Whole world thinks that Google has some great recruiting strategy but

the fact is there is no formal well communicated recruitment strategy. These things just randomly


occur. If you talk to the recruiters or hiring managers of Google, no one will be able to

eloquently explain the strategy and how Google is so different from its competitors in hiring

talent.

Corporate / Group leaders, Top and Senior Leaders Recruitment process-


Middle and New Leaders Recruitment Process:


Google Recruitment Action plan

How Google Interviews: Google looks for people who are smart and team oriented and people

who can get things done. A candidate is interviewed with four or five Googlers. They look for

the following qualities:

Leadership: Google wants know how a particular individual deals in different situations

in order muster a team. This might be by asserting a leadership role at your work or with

an organization.

Role-Related Knowledge: This of course very important for interviewer to know if you

have role related knowledge. They may know this by giving you word problems during

an interviewer. Google doesn’t want people who aren’t passionate about their work and

have isolated skill sets. Google also looks for experience and background of a candidate


Filling the Top Level Position on a priority basisClosely working with the respective leaders to fill the first level positions through the Top Down approachWorking with Category / Business HR heads to fill key positions throughFormulating company strategy to attract talent and groom them to be the future managers

which will help set up their success in their role. For, engineering candidates Google

looks at their coding skills and technical areas of expertise.

How a Candidate Thinks: Google also looks for how a candidate thinks and how he

takes his responsibility, they are less concerned with a candidate’s grade. They will ask a

candidate few problems and checks how a candidate solves and tackles that problem.

Here again they are less concerned with correct answers.

So this is how Google recruits candidates. This requires lot of hard work and lot of

discussion especially when they have to offer s senior post in their company. There are many

offers for freshers also to join the company and earn the reputation and respect. In 2014

Google started employing freshers in Hyderabad, India. The following are the job

descriptions and Eligibility:-

Job Description-

There is a vacancy for the post of Application Developer.

The work involves design, build and enhance Ad Review and related support tools and

infrastructure across Google ad products.

Work on improving real time systems for large scale data processing, machine learning

and clustering problems to identify review trends.

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve Ads Review operation

infrastructure.

Eligibility-

The required educational qualification is B.E/B.Tech/BA/BS degree in Computer Science

or related technical discipline and practical experience is required.

Must be acquainted with object oriented programming languages such as Java, C++ or

Python.

Possess knowledge on data structures and algorithms

Should have good commanding skills on gathering data requirements.


Recommendation

I think the best way of recruiting people is the way Google recruits; we actually get to know

how a candidate thinks and takes his/ her problem. Google asks many tricky questions but

they least concerned in getting the correct answer; they just check how a candidate tackles

his/her problems. If it’s technical role then Google checks the coding skills of a particular

candidate.

I think every company should focus on how a candidate is passionate about his/her work and

they should not focus on individual skill sets. If an employee is passionate about his/ her

work then their productivity increases.

Every company should know the following capabilities that they have to look for in a

candidate:

Leadership: They should be able to lead a team and independently work

Role related knowledge: Every candidate should have role related knowledge so they

can work freely and with well motivation.

How a candidate thinks: A company should know that how a candidate takes and

tackles his/her problems and can they work in crisis?

One thing which is very important for a company in order to keep a good atmosphere and a good

working environment among its employees is Googleyness. They way Google keeps its

employees motivated with luxury and good working conditions; every company should do this to

get good results from their employees.


Conclusion

Basically the main points of how Google recruits candidates are the following:

Phone interview

On site Interview

Interviewers write a feedback about each candidate and give them a score

Hiring Committee who take the main decision of hiring checks the feedback given by

the interviewers as well as the resume and the experience of the candidate.

Senior level management reveals the offer to the candidate.

Compensation committee determines the compensation of the offer

The top execs of the company checks the candidate’s offer

The recruiter will give the offer.

Google is very particular in taking a right decision in recruiting a candidate. In the past Google

has taken 29 interviews of the same candidate but now they have lowered it to 4-9 interviews.


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