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Entry 1714

Great Jobs at Google

10 Things Google has found to be true:

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.
10) Great just isn't good enough.

In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of our most cherished core values: "Don't be evil."

Google is awesome, and the page says they're profitable, which I didn't know. Check out their descriptions of some of the stuff they do: "Designing and improving software that can crawl and index billions of web pages and other documents, comprising 20+ TB of raw data, in a few days.... Developing efficient implementations for large-scale mathematical problems, such as running Google's Pagerank™ algorithm on a graph of 3 billion nodes and 20 billion edges."

and on an on! They're amazing. This is the kind of stuff I'm going to school for. I'd love to know that I could work for a company like Google. Right now I wouldn't have anything to offer, but I'd hope to.

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