Aleena Gilani
Human Resource Management Final Paper

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” (Company – Google. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.google.com/about/company/) Google, which originally was call “BackRub”, was founded by two men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin who both went to Stanford University together in 1995. The Google company itself was founded in 1998. The founders had made a list of “10 things” that they believed were true for their company. Those ten things were: 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow, 2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well, 3. Fast is better than slow, 4. Democracy on the web works, 5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer, 6. You can make money without doing evil, 7. There’s always more information out there, 8. The need for information crosses all borders, 9. You can be serious without a suit, and 10. Great just isn’t good enough. (Google Company). These are the things that Google follows and what has made them the successful company that they are. Google’s culture is very different that what most companies have. “The average Google employee generates more than $1 million in revenue each year” (“Workforce Management”. Business and Company ASAP, 2007. SUNY Empire State College.). There is a reason Google has been #1 on top 100 companies to work for. With having more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the world, Google hires all types of people. Google works to maintain an open culture for the company, and because it does, Google became the best work place in India. They came out on top because of the companies “50 billion start-up” and its non-traditional practices. Some of those practices being, “all new hires traveling to Mountain View, California, to share their knowledge with other employees.” (“Google