Google’s #1 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for

This didn’t came in as a surprise. Google is the best place to work according to Fortune:

Google makes its debut in the number one position on FORTUNE’s 10th annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. At Google you can enjoy free gourmet meals; do your laundry; drop off your dry cleaning; get an oil change and get a massage all onsite. Work is such a cozy place that it’s sometimes difficult for Google employees to leave the office, which is precisely how the company justifies the expenses, none of which it breaks out of its administrative costs. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects–no wonder Google gets 1,300 resumes a day. {source: Forbes}

Every other tech guy ~~wants~~ dreams of working for Google since it went public a couple years ago. I know I do. The closest I worked on a similar working environment was Microsoft Great Plains years ago. Flexi-time (24/7), bottomless drinks, sleeping quarters, huge desk/cubicle space, exercise/gym room, TV rooms, kids playpens, very fast internet and sleepless nights of Warcraft 3 and Counterstrike tournaments.

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6 Comments

banksxs says:
January 9, 2007 at 1:07 pm

How fast was the internet? :p

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rain says:
January 9, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Bakit nung nalipat ang GP (MBS, now Dynamics), di naman kami ganyan?

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Miguel says:
January 9, 2007 at 8:55 pm

Pinoys working in Google, represent!
Where are you?

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yuga says:
January 11, 2007 at 5:41 am

@ banks

Twas 2002 and we were getting 4Mbps dow to the workstations.

@ rain

Actually depende which group or division you belong. The Product Support people don’t have as much leniency actually.

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Aileen Apolo says:
January 11, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Pinoys at Google? Madami! Well… I’m here in Manila

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Miguel says:
January 11, 2007 at 7:08 pm

Of course we know you’re here Aileen… I’m looking for Pinoys in Google engineering and operations…

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