GOOGLE, INTERNSHIP

From the movie,

INTERNSHIP

Two men that named Nick and Billy were fired from their previous company that selling the luxury watches because the shop is closing down. The Google managers want them although they are not in the age that normal student go internship because they have unique though and actions and the managers are giving the chance for them to go the Google Head Quarter to do their “uncle internship”.

The Google Company is focusing the diversity in their work place. They want different people that have different way of thinking to join them. So they are accepting different people to work with them. However they must fulfill the required requirement of the company.

Red means no, Green means yes!

In the beginning, the Google manager has an ethic lesson with their intern talk about the business ethic and the ethic in the company. The student interns are answering the correct questions that teach by the manager such “Taking beer with your boss”, “taking the company food home”. Two of the “uncle interns” answer the question from their thought that can have beer with their boss and can take the food back to their home. The thought of I'm not doing the wrong things for doing these "unethical" action. If they be a manager in the company, they would be an amoral manager because they dint know they are doing the wrong behavior. The manager that taking care of the intern was very unhappy and very angry about their answer and they just answer what they feel is right.

Actually Malaysia can’t apply this concept that set the free food stall in the company to let the employee to enjoy the free foods and drinks. Because of the Malaysian working behavior and their cultural are different.

Free coffee, free lunch and free banana!!!

 

About the Google working environment, all the employee that work with the Google can enjoy the free food and drinks from their own F&B outlet. The intern can enjoy the foods and the drink as the normal staff from the Google HQ also. For the case of Google, they want their employee have the creativity and their ability for solving the problem. They are hiring the top people in the world to work with them. The objective of setting the free food stall and relaxing workplaces for their employees because Google Company wants their employee work in the comfortable working environment. They believe that they don’t need to be at their desk to need an answer. They can do the research on the beanbag area, the garden or at their home. Al long as the internet is access there.  

The core message is simple: Being a Googler means holding yourself to the highest possible standard of ethical business conduct. This is a matter as much practical as ethical; we hire great people who work hard to build great products, but our most important asset by far is our reputation as a company that warrants our users' faith and trust. That trust is the foundation upon which our success and prosperity rests, and it must be re-earned every day, in every way, by every one of us (Investor.google.com, 2013).

They have an informal motto that states "don't be evil", the googlers generally relate those words to the way they serve their user, as they should. Their working behavior are highly be motivated by themselves. Besides don’t be evil, they also encourage their employee to speak up if they see something that they think isn't right.

The Googler believe that they can make money without doing evil, because Google is a business that earn the revenue that generate by derived from offering search technology to company and from the sale of advertising displayed on their site.  

Company empower the employee and given the flexible time as a source of selves motivation to the employee. The entire employees are highly motivated by themselves to run the job automatically.

Ethic to the employee, they have given the employee the job within the time and within their ability. About the work load, the worker in the Google Company, they have to “find the job themselves”. It means the boss will give the project if they are requesting job from the boss. In the movie, the “uncle intern” wants some job from the manager because he wants to get closer to the female manager. He gets a harder job for developing the HTML5. He fell he have learn something after he get the job from the manager. This show, the manager will help and guide the new comers to finish their job also. They are not giving the job simply to make the employee feel stress and not working on their job. 

Google are choosing the right people to enter their company. They are applying the company structure as the decentralize structure. The employee can do what they wish. But there have some limitation on what they are doing also. They are not limited the drugs and alcohol in their work place, but they have to follow the law of respecting each other in the company. From the law of the company, the have some rules about the equal opportunity employment which talk about the employee have to base on their merit and qualification directly related to professional competence.

From this movie, we learn about why we live, they thought us the Googlelines though that" they work hard for a reason, because they believe that what they do in the Google is help make people’s lives a little bit better". They have believed that they can make something for the human, so that they are working so hard to for the company GOOGLE! The Googler believe that great just isn't enough for them. They are searching and finding to way innovation and iteration, they can work well and improve upon in unexpected way.

If all the company are doing like Google, give flexible time free food for the employee. Is the employee being like Google employees that have high production?

Investor.google.com. 2013. Code of Conduct – Investor Relations – Google. [online] Available at: http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html [Accessed:17 Oct 2013].