One of the first things Google did after it set up its India sales office in Hyderabad in March 2004, was to put an in-house cricket team together. It was an apt message the California based internet search giant was sending out to its new recruits: Working at Google is fun.
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It's one of the three offices (besides Mountain View, California, and Dublin, Ireland) serving Ad-Words for English language markets.
After all, Googlers (as Google employees are called) in the Googleplex headquarters are a pampered lot. Free food, free massages and valet services to take care of everything from dog-walking to dry cleaning, are just a few of the perks Google lavishes on its employees, many of them young and unmarried.
Looking at Google's Hyderabad office would never give you a sense of the company's unbridled ambition (neither would visiting its India R&D centre in Bangalore help).
Located in the Hi-Tech City, Google has an address on the fourth floor of RMZ Futura, a state-of-the-art building, which has neighbours such as Dell and Microsoft. The 6,000-feet office, packed with cubicles, is meant to support Google's global advertising clients.
The Googlers here, mostly young, arts college graduates, write AdWord copies (the brief descriptive "sponsored links", actually ads, that show up alongside search results). "It really is a mixed bag," says Roy Gilbert, a former sonar officer (and a computer science engineer from the us Naval Academy), who is now Director, Online Sales & Operations, and the first among equals in Google India. (The other two top executives locally are Ashish Kashyap, Country Manager, Sales and Operations, and Kannan Pashupati, who is filling in for Krishna Bharat of Google News fame as head of the Bangalore development centre.)
Gilbert wouldn't reveal the headcount at Hyderabad, but it is learnt that it could be about 200.
Google Hyderabad services engineering, human resources and online sales functions. It's also considered the largest English AdWords department for Google.
Uniqueness: It's one of the three offices (besides Mountain View, California, and Dublin, Ireland) serving English language markets.
Fastest growing: Hyderabad, which staffs between 150 and 200 people and is currently on a hiring spree, is the fastest-growing sales office worldwide.
Work: Google's AdWords advertisers and AdSense publishers worldwide receive seamless online sales service and support in their local time from the team in Hyderabad.
No night shift: Hyderabad office is not a BPO and the working hours are strictly between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Employee profile: Hires writers who are very proficient in English for its AdWords department. It has a written test and interview; age no bar.
Source : Business Today via TMC Net, Image courtesy Flickr
