Google and the moves to win talent -

On a Saturday morning in the spring, about 90 Stanford University students and a group of University of California students gathered at Google's headquarters, attending exciting competitions like Lego puzzles and puzzles. .

It is an annual Google Games Festival, held annually as a high-level competition between two Stanford-Berkeley students. But behind that happy atmosphere is a completely serious recruitment strategy of Google, a mission no less difficult: Winning talent to your hands.

Recruitment by festival day

As the hi-tech industry is gradually returning to its heyday and entering a new boom, the recruitment race has never become so intense and fierce.

Firms like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo regularly hunt with a candidate and in many cases, they witness a worthwhile talent cut off by his opponent in front of his nose.

That's not to mention a "legion" of small, established tech companies that are springing up in Silicon Valley like mushrooms. In order to attract talent, these firms shelved the so-called "job interview" because of its futility.

Instead, they organize events such as technology extra-curricular lectures, cocktail parties, Pizza buffet, treasure hunt competitions, programming competitions called " On hack " .

" Those are rare opportunities to introduce students to our corporate culture, to show them how happy it is to be part of Google, " said Ken Krieger, a Google engineer. said the judge of the Lego puzzle assembly said.

Hungry thirst for talent

To get the admirable success and growth rate today, Google understands more than anyone the importance of the talented engineering team that the company is recruiting under. Therefore, none of the companies proved to be "bloody" by Google in the war for talent.

Google chases any talent they happen to know / encounter / hear about, considering talent as "gasoline" to run the giant machine. Google's human resources have nearly doubled each year, and by the end of March, it has stopped at more than 12,200 people.

Each month, Google adds about 500 employees. And on its website, people still see . 800 vacant vacancies.

The stories of Google's "hunger for talent", about the recruitment process unlike their own, are constantly being transmitted. Many graduate students believe that Google is the most desirable employer, even more than the famous blue-chip consultant McKinsey & Company - a position McKinsey has held over the past 12 years.

" Living in an environment where you will learn a lot is the reason I chose Google, " Alice Yu-Shan Chang, one of several hundred students will graduate this year and head to Google headquarters soon after. there, said.

Candidate afternoon like "wife"

Alice Chang, a Stanford graduate student in Computer Science major, is sought by both Google, Microsoft, eBay and Oracle.Source: The New York Times

Chang - graduate student in computer science and Stanford management is sought by both Microsoft and Google, eBay and Oracle

Microsoft even did everything it could to satisfy Chang's request, from finding her a job away from the Bay Area, where she was living, until the vice president personally called.

" With Google, you don't have much time to interact with such high level characters ." But in the end Chang decided to choose Google, because the search giant had accepted her to change positions, every six months.

" So people can improve. Moreover, I feel more suited to Google's corporate culture. There are young and creative people there ."

Meanwhile, most of Chang's colleagues at Microsoft were in their mid-30s and inwardly, because they were married.

Not only competing with students with Microsoft, Google is also known for "cutting hands on" talent from rival software. For example, Kaifu Lee, president of Google Greater China, was the director of Microsoft's Research Center in the country. After Google invited Lee to work in 2005, Microsoft angrily filed a lawsuit against both, accusing Google of unfair competition and taking advantage of inside information.

Opportunity to change life

Another rival of Google and Microsoft, Yahoo, also regularly recruits people from annual hacking festivals.

" Dozens of programmers have gone from this competition straight into Yahoo's lab. Our recruitment strategy has been effective ," said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of Yahoo's Product Strategy. .

However, all three big men said that their most difficult recruits were small, newly established technology firms.

Take the example of Nitay Joffe. After two years at Google, Joffe will move to Powerset, a San Francisco-based technology firm. " Powerset has everything Google has - smart people, interesting projects, great technology .", Joffe said.

But Powerset has an element that Google never satisfied: the ability to rocket like a rocket, equivalent to winning a jackpot lottery ticket. " With small firms, you see stock prices rising from 5 cents to 50 USD. But Google is hard to get from $ 480 to $ 4,000 ."

Trong Cam