From Electricnews.net, an Irish-based business and finance site, an story about Urs Holzle’s European recruitment tour.
“Nobody has tried to hook together so many PCs… You have to be able to deal with failures and make the whole system continue to work,” Holzle, one of the first 10 employees of Google, told ElectricNews.Net.
To work in such an environment, Google employees must be creative and work well in a team, and must also be the type of employee that does not take their job too seriously, he claimed. “Employment at Google should be 60 to 70 percent fun,” he said, “the rest is blood, sweat and tears.” Holzle also noted that even the company interview process is reflective of this overall attitude, claiming that prospective workers are not confronted with a test of their technical knowledge, but will be carefully judged on whether they “fit” within the Google team.
Not confronted with tests? What’s this?!