Back in 2004 Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked Stacy Sullivan, then Head of HR and now Google’s Chief Culture Officer, to find out how Google employees, or Googlers, were feeling about work by interviewing them and reporting back. At that point the company had thousands of Googlers, and Stacy realized that face-to-face interviews (as she had done in the past) were no longer the most efficient or rigorous way to gauge employee sentiments. So Google began its first version of an employee survey.

Structured interviewing simply means using the same interviewing methods to assess candidates applying for the same job. Research shows that structured interviews can be predictive of candidate performance, even for jobs that are themselves unstructured. Google uses structured interviewing — using the same interview questions, grading candidate responses on the same scale, and making hiring decisions based on consistent, predetermined qualifications.

In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.

Studies have shown that committing to a goal can help improve employee performance. But more specifically, research reveals that setting challenging and specific goals can further enhance employee engagement in attaining those goals. Google often uses “Objectives and Key Results” (OKRs) to try to set ambitious goals and track progress.

The Design Sprint Kit is an open-source resource for design leaders, product owners, developers or anyone who is learning about or running Design Sprints. Whether you are new to Design Sprints and gaining buy in for your first Sprint, or an experienced Sprint facilitator looking for new methods, this site will help you learn, plan, and contribute to the Design Sprint Methodology.

Material is a design system – backed by open-source code – that helps teams build high-quality digital experiences.

Hands-on lessons putting Material into action – from adding a single button to completing a build

Start on Android by Google helps developers test, iterate, and optimize their app before launching on Google Play. Developers get hands on support, inclusion in Early Access, technical support, and other perks.

Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any web page, public or requiring authentication. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO and more.

Google Analytics gives you the free tools you need to analyze data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

In this session, Fernanda Caloi, Program Manager of Google for Startups, welcomes Anna Potanina, Mobile User Experience Specialist of Google, for a talk about how to ensure that your product experience and functionality meets your users expectations and your business goals

Build highly scalable applications on a fully managed serverless platform.

Computing infrastructure in predefined or custom machine sizes to accelerate your cloud transformation.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Innovative machine learning products and services on a trusted platform.

Explore where real-world insights and immersive location experiences can take your business

Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

The Google Pay API enables fast, simple checkout within your app, and gives you convenient access to hundreds of millions of cards saved to Google Accounts worldwide.