I lost a position working at a Biotech Company because of a misunderstanding. We did not have a limo service, and while we were waiting to choose a corporation, I hired a Taxi Driver Company to shuffle our clients from the airport directly back to the Company. However, the Employees of that company got chummy with an Customer they had wanted to become a worker in there department and had wanted to use the Company money for the Taxi Driver to drive from the workplace to a Restaurant and I told them they would have to pay for the applicant to go to the restaurant.
They did not understand the agreement was to the workplace and then back to the airport.
After that you would have to pay the driver for any detours. This made the Dept Head whom was also one of the founders of the Company very Mad. So, he told HR to Fire me. They let me go instead.
They had a big meeting and I did not get to defend myself in defense and I had to sit there listening to them getting mad at me.
Then They told me to go collect my items and the HR Manager walked me to my car. If there were 6 of me they would of let go each one of me 6 times alone.
I drove home and that was that.
Then 2 weeks go by and Larry whom was my Traveling HR Recruiter calls me up one day and asked if I could do a Favour for him. Someone in HR was trying to have a baby and needed to have some time off. Would I be interested in working at Google in Human Resources?! I said yes. So, I interviewed for a blank sheet of paper. (recruiter talk/they have the title but no job description it get added in later in outline form)
I have a big corporate meeting on the second floor, and they tell me what they expect and what they would like me to do.
I was to schedule the interviews. (for ALL Dept/ and all HR Dept)
EASY huh?!
So, Larry was fast paced but there wasn't all lot of emails.
Google had over 100 emails a day plus resume coming in.
The IT Dept had trouble getting Google Chat working for me so, I had to call or email to contact a Manager or I looked at the Internal calender for the Dept Manager and scheduled the conference room for the interview to take place. I got to bump Mangers out of the scheduled rooms and place them elsewhere.
I sent an email out that I preferred this conference room as a HR meeting room so, if you could please choose a different room for all your upcoming meeting with your workers.
So, I only worked there for 2 weeks and trying to find a dept head was really hard. It wasn't until I talked to a worker and found the MAP above the Copy machine then that was how I was able to find them. It also showed all the exits. I also learned on that day in the afternoon that it was on my computer internal website however like I said earlier about HR Google chat that was having problems and so, was the internal website for the corporation. There was a link on the computer which allowed the worker to see what was going on in there dept and what was going on in the corporation.
All activities?!
I was always at the computer scheduling and I never new there was skating in the Companys parking lot. I only saw them come in later and talked about the media showing up to take photo's of the President of the Company playing sticjk Hockey with some of the workers.
I used a copy machine/fax to send my contact work hours to the contract agency I worked for and to get paid. It too was different from any fax machine I encounter.
The fax machine was placed in an odd spot. After you left the front office you walked into the hallway and then around the corned was the copy/fax machine on the left and on the right was the bookcase filled with Google Shirts. You are allowed to take one if you work there.
The Lobby of the Google Company is very clean. While your sitting on the couch to your right is video games and to the left is a hallway that takes you to Marketing. The marketing Dept had a showcase of hard and soft candy in clear bins and you could grab any one of them you chose. The HR manager you gave me the tour was talking about dress code when she showed me the bins. She said the men are in Marketing and there mostly single and she said Man cave. She then nodded her head.
The candy was not all in wrappers and she paused, and we watched a man grab the candy without using the tool too take the candy out of the bin. So, I passed on the candy except I did take the fully wrapped candy. In HR there are special nods and looks you make when in agreement or disagreement when it comes to a very personal problem or not.
In HR at Google we would bring fully wrapped candy into our desk and share. We also sat together when it was lunch time but the conversation was overtaken by passed workers and I was only there for 2 weeks as it was in the Cards to only be there for two weeks, so I really did not connect with them with their conversations about passed workers. I was a slow eater of grocery food because I had Gerd and I took the full hour eating my lunch. Google had a chef that had linemen cooks and by chance while they were cleaning the table I got into a conversation with the Chef because I asked for another xyz.
I asked him several questions about his employment, and it was very interesting conversation.
Done with eating grocery food whipped up fancy.
Off to print out Resumes to hand to Dept heads. Then schedule some more and then leave by 6pm
The HR Manager asked me to stay 3 extra days and I would get paid for that they said.
So, again I drove into the Google parking lot. It looked brand new, there were no cracks or pot holes there. They could because the President loved playing Hockey.
Then after the 2 weeks and 3 days were over the lady I was covering for in HR came back and I would be let go. I thanked them and said Goodbye in good terms.
I got into my car and that was that.
What was it like to work at Google?
Very fast paced.
Managers would come into your office and move your stuff around while sitting and talking to you about what days they like to interview on so, the candidate didn't always have a choice with certain Engineering Depts.
Disruption when certain mangers showed up to talk to you. You had to figure how to block them from touching the resumes, otherwise they ended up out of place.
The windows were always clean. The floor was clean and vacuumed.
Ask a Question and polietly given an answer.
They had a massager come once every three days. You sat in a backward desk and placed your head down and for 15 minutes that you paid for you got a massage.
Fun but fast paced.
