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Life at Google

Get to know who we are - from the inside out. From our history and culture, to the people behind our products, get the inside scoop on all things Googley.

Culture and Diversity

We’ve always wanted Google to be a place that brought together smart, talented people from a diversity of backgrounds, and where you could bring your whole self to work. Lots has been written about our great perks, but read on to find out what our culture is really all about.

Working at Google
Our Googlers (past and present) tell all about why they love working here and what they love about the people they work with. You’ll also ...

Women in leadership at Google
As Eileen Naughton put it, she didn’t want to miss this party. Women at Google lead major portions of the business, growing their careers and ...

Groups are key to Google's culture
You might have heard the term 'Googler,' but what about 'Gleegler' or 'Snowgler'? These are names of just a few of the many employee groups ...

Google: Scale changes everything
Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful - and the enormous engineering challenges that ...

Missions that matter
What happens when you mix together entrepreneurial drive, resources, freedom and the urge to do the right thing? A perfect storm. In the Innovation issue ...

Employee networks at Google
Diversity is a core part of our business and who we are. Watch this clip to learn about our Employee Resource Groups, how they bring ...

Innovation at Google

Our engineers use technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. But you don’t have to code to innovate at Google. Learn how Googlers across all our teams think big and find creative ways to work better and smarter in all that we do.

A rare inside look at Google’s top-secret data centers
With all the talk about cloud computing, it’s easy to forget that the 20 billion pages Google ...

Going green for good

We want people to feel good about using Google products. One way we try to do that is by making environmentally-responsible choices in all aspect ...

A network’s first lesson in machine learning
Google researchers teamed up with Stanford University to build a "deep learning" neural network ...

Speed of dreams
Astro Teller (yes, that is his real name) shares how Google bets big on the next world-changing technology that could impact billions of people. Instead ...

Exploring the world's art museums from home
Googler Amit Sood chats about his work to make over 30,000 works of art accessible online

The Google Gospel of Speed
"Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature." So says Urs Hoelzle, head of our infrastructure team. Urs shares how milliseconds mega-matter for everything from ...

Googler's Voice

People are at the core of who we are, and Googlers have taken all kinds of paths in their careers to get here. Learn more about what we do and some of the choices we’ve made along the way.

S.O.S.: When disaster strikes, Raquel and Crisis Response answer the call

When disaster strikes, Software Engineer Raquel Romano and the Google Crisis Response team spring into action. They use the same Google infrastructure and technology behind ...

Designing for simplicity: How Noah improved Google Search for iOS

After just three months at Google, Interaction Designer Noah Levin took the lead in changing the way our users interact with Google Search on the ...

Google Instant goes global: Laura delivers our fastest search to the world

Creating and launching a new product can be daunting. Laura Holmes earned her stripes in Google’s Associate Product Manager (APM) program and participated in the ...

The front lines: Yvette and Sean on fighting the war on bugs

People depend on Google Maps every day to get them where they need to go. One wrong turn could leave our users lost and frustrated. ...

Need for speed: How Matt helped Google Fiber upgrade internet service

At Google, speed is key. Business analysts and engineers alike create solutions at an incredible pace. Watch Matt Dooling’s story about bringing ultra-fast internet service ...

Site reliability engineers: the "world's most intense pit crew"
Site reliability engineer (SRE) Andrew Widdowson likens Google to a race car going 100mph - and the SRE team is its pit crew, changing the ...

Benefits

When it comes to our benefits and perks, we have everything you’d expect from a large company, like health insurance, retirement benefits and so on. But we also offer way more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are, and they’re designed to take care of the whole you and keep you healthy, whether physically, emotionally, financially or socially.

Learn more about our benefits

How we hire

Our process is pretty basic; the path to getting hired usually involves a first conversation with a recruiter, a phone interview and an onsite interview at one of our offices. But there are a few things we've baked in along the way that make getting hired at Google a little different.

Learn more about how we hire