This focuses on the socialization and the effects of socialization in Google.

1. BY AMTHEYST FLOYD
The Socialization Process in Google

2. Article Review

3. Article Review
 Google has amazing perks for its employees
 It is done to better the work relationship with
employees to the company
 Their socialization process is highly praised
because of the results for the company.
 Tenure is on average 2.6 years

4. Article Review
 Despite Google doing everything in its power to
make the perfect work environment, there is still
a problem with employees leaving.
 Google has been losing its employees to
Amazon and Facebook.
 It is the result of hiring and socializing a
younger, more determined crowd.

5. The Socialization Process

6. Anticipatory
 Google gives a list of things you should know
for the interview and what to expect:
You’ll be expected to show off leadership
skills, role – related knowledge, how you think
and your ‘googleyness.’
You’ll be expected to have good collaboration
skills.

7. Encounter
 There will likely be four to five interviewers.
 You’ll be asked a series of questions to see how
you express the earlier skills.
 You‘ll be set in team like scenarios so that others
get a better idea of how good your skills are.

8. Example Interview Questions
 “How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?”
 “You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and
your mass is proportionally reduced so as to
maintain your original density. You are then
thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades
will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you
do?”

9. Encounter Cont.
 New employees will still be observed after they join
to give confidence to Google that they were a good
decision.
 Higher ups will talk to the new employee about how
they feel they are doing and ask other employees how
they view the new team member to be.
 Google highly values collaboration because projects
are done by teams. It is not something that can be
avoided.

10. Metamorphosis
 One a member has joined the team, they will
have a small talk with their boss, to create trust
and strong relations. They will be explained how
Google is a ‘psychological space’ and what that
means to them and other employees.
 Also, once a member, you will always be a part
of the Google family. There is a strong bond
between the employees and having alumni from
there is a large professional perk.

11. The Perks of Having Commitment
 Five months Maternity Leave
 Spa Treatments
 Gourmet Meals
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
 Amazing benefits for the spouse if employee
dies while still employed
 Insurance

12. Perks That Advance Employees In Other Fields
 Google allows its employees to use their
technology and programs before the public.
Informing their employees and receiving
feedback from them allows the employees to
have a better understand of what the future
holds. If they can learn the pattern of innovation,
it is information they can take with them to
competing companies with experience in tools
that have not been used by many others.

13. Problems With Their
Socialization

14. Turn Over
 It is said that Google employees tend to leave
after a year.
 I believe this happens because many start as
people who have just left college and have not
found exactly what they want for the rest of their
life. Investing in the young can have difficult
results.

15. Why People Leave
 Because Google hires people who are go getting
and innovative, many go on to either a higher
pay check or to create their own business. Larry
Page, the current CEO, said it was one of the few
downfalls of hiring such amazing people.

16. Why Google Treats Socialization This Way
 Research was done by the head of their Human
Resources department, Laszlo Bock.
 “ The bottom line is you sleep well at night by treating people
the way you want to be treated.”
 He says a business can only go so far when you’re
yelling.
 Business is a learning experience and everyone
involved is learning from it. Not one person knows
everything all the time. When keeping this ideal for
your new employees, it creates a more positive
environment.

17. Questions

18. Questions 1-3
 What have they done to lower the turn over rate?
 What is a common complaint about the
environment despite Mr. Bock trying his best?
 How long do they think they’ll be able to
implement this kind of socialization and are they
ready to change when necessary?

19. Questions 4-5
 How often does the action of the hired
employees contradict their initial reaction to their
interview?
 When asking their, “odd ball questions”, has
there ever been a time when a person has gotten
the question correct but did not answer it creative
enough and was not accepted?

20. Questions 6-7
 Does Google often find that it has been to lenient
with its employees?
 Has Google found itself drowning more so in the
responsibility of making its workers happy rather
than productive during different parts of the year?
How do holidays affect the atmosphere with so a
large diverse group of people?
Do they take stance of making everyone included
or not doing anything that exclude someone? How
does that affect the atmosphere?

21. Citations
 D'Onfro, Jillian. "Google Employees Reveal Their
Favorite Perks About Working For The
Company."Business Insider. N.p., 1 July 2015. Web.
23 Oct. 2016.
 "How We Hire - Google Careers." How We Hire -
Google Careers. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2016.
 Peck, Emily. "Here Are Google's Secrets To Treating
Workers Well." The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Apr. 2015. Web. 23 Oct.
2016.