The Google Way of Life

Have you ever seen a questionnaire from Google for employment? Some of the question may be totally “out there”, but if shows a unique insight that Google seems to have on how the world thinks and moves. Look at these examples

1. How to improve upon emptiness?

2. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes strolling about. What dost thou do?

Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a Grue.
Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to next level
Play MPorRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes
Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path
Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in whole different world

3. Solve this cryptic equation, realizing of course that values for M and E could be interchanged. No leading zeros are allowed

WWWDOT- GOOGLE = DOTCOM

Ok, these questions may seem crazy at first. But looking at it from another angle, they do show that Google is looking for people that can be “creative” and think “outside the box”. Raw knowledge without creativity is just that, raw, and while other companies may consider raw knowledge as enough, Google doesn’t and it’s worked well for them. Another good example is Google’s servers, which are custom built by them. The current estimates put their server farm at 450,000 units, all custom made as they have been doing it since 1999.

I find Google’s innovative way of doing things, are in line with the customer way of thinking and what the customer wants, not what they can shove down our throats, like Microsoft does.

I think that this shows us all how we should not to be trapped into the mode of accepting things just as” how they are” which most of us do on a daily basis. We are loosing our grip on being creative thinkers, who love to push beyond the status quo. We should all look into our daily lives and challenge ourselves to look for a better way than what’s presented to us as “the only way” to go. Being different is a better thing than what we are being told(sold) that it is…..