Last year I got a call from a Google recruiter. After an initial polite exchange, they wouldn't consider me at all because I never finished college. This blog article is a nice feel-good piece, but I think that their Googley advice should at least mention their actual education requirements.
Everytime I hear "Googley" I cringe. It must be aweful working at google, and not wanting to be "Googley" and not being sorrounded by all that childish stuff. It's like join a cult, not a job. You either are "in" our spend the rest of the time being miserable.
I don't know much about Google. It seems like a fine place to work, and the people I know who are there tend to have a high opinion of it. But I tend to get worried, and slightly put off, by excessive perks. It's good to have them, but it's the work that I'll go to a job for, not the diversions.
