People want to work for Google – why?
Universum just released their report which showed that globally, Google is the “most attractive employer”, being ranked number one in the top 50 global businesses and engineering companies categories. Microsoft wasclose behind, with a second place in engineering and third in business. Apparently being a geek is now the in thing!
So what makes Google so great to work for? Fortune thinks it might be the ‘belly benefits (many new employees are known to put on the ‘Google 15′ shortly after hiring)
At Google it always comes back to the food. Google runs 11 free gourmet cafeterias at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, and offers all its employees free gourmet meals.
In addition to its cafés, Google has snack rooms which contain various cereals, candy, nuts, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit and other snacks, and dozens of different drinks including soda and make-your-own cappuccino. Says co-founder Sergey Brin: “The cafés have always been pretty healthy, but the snacks are not, and the efforts to fix that have been remarkably challenging.” Though company lore has it that Brin and co-founder Larry Page believe no worker should be more than 150 feet from a food source, clearly not all food is equal. “A lot of people like their M&Ms. But the easy access is actually what’s bad for them,” he says.
Of course, when it comes to America’s new Best Company to Work For, the food is, well, just the appetizer.
Seriously, though, the entire company is still run by the founders, who believe that making it a great palce to work is what makes the company great.
The study surveyed 120,000 students at “top academic institutions”, asking what their ideal company to work for was. Students were included from the US, Japan, China, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain, Canada and India.
Tags: Fortune 500, Google, Sergey Brin