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
Sr.no Title Page no.
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

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.

Bibliography
http://goo.gl/vn4nYJ (Slide share PPT used as reference)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment#Job_analysis (Recruitment Definition)
http://goo.gl/Swa2h5 (recruitment Strategy)
http://www.slideshare.net/yashbhatt7982/savedfiles?s_title=company-recruitment-strategy-
31510023&user_login=damselstacey (PPT used for research of recruitment and selection)
http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/infographic-how-ace-google-hiring-and-interview-process/
(Info graph used for research)
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/google-announces-recruitment-for-freshers-at-
hyderabad/1/384273.html (news on Freshers to be employed in Google in Hyderabad)
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=google&biw=1360&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&
sa=X&ei=t7enVKuPOpCdugSlnIHwCA&sqi=2&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw (Google image on
Page 11)
www.goo.gl (URL Shortner)

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