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The One App You Need On Your Résumé If You Want A Job At Google [Average Pay: $141,000]
Business Insider ^ | 10/17/2014 | Jim Edwards

Posted on 10/17/2014 9:31:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Google has more than 50,000 employees right now, and they earn great salaries. Average pay at Google is $141,000.

It's relatively easy to get a job at Google, too.

The company is so large and has such a massive need for talent that hiring for Google is something of a headache, so if you have the right skills, Google is really enthusiastic to hear from you.

Especially if you know how to use MatLab, a code and data analysis and management tool.

On Thursday night, Google's former svp/product management Jonathan Rosenberg was in London with chairman Eric Schmidt to promote their new book "How Google Works."

During a Q&A at the University of London, Rosenberg said he once had to give a speech in front of a room full of Rhodes scholars (about 70 people receive the scholarship each year). He offered them all jobs at Google right there on the spot — and even compared their airfare to San Francisco. A few of them took the offer.

The fact that Google is willing to hire an entire room of bright people, sight unseen, tells you how desperately the company needs smart workers.

If, on the off chance, you're not a Rhodes scholar, Schmidt had some more down-to-earth advice. Google really needs data analytics people and folks who have studied statistics in college, he said.

Big data — how to create it, manipulate it, and put it to good use — is one of those areas in which Google is really enthusiastic about.

And then Rosenberg said something really interesting. If you want to work at Google, make sure you can use MatLab, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: employment; google; googleemployees; job; matlab; resume
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1 posted on 10/17/2014 9:31:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 10/17/2014 9:34:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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Big data — how to create it, manipulate it, and SELL it.


3 posted on 10/17/2014 9:34:43 AM PDT by Vaduz
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For me, the best book on MATLAB...

4 posted on 10/17/2014 9:35:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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This Matlab?

MATLAB is a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical...

Our Systems Engineers use it alot.


5 posted on 10/17/2014 9:36:13 AM PDT by McGruff (The whole Omama Administration is a breach in protocol)
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To: SeekAndFind
if you know how to use MatLab, a code and data analysis and management tool

I've never heard of MatLab, but I am very proficient with a slide rule. Do you think Google might be interested?

And for those under 55:

Slide Rule

6 posted on 10/17/2014 9:44:23 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: SeekAndFind
and even compared their airfare to San Francisco

Compared it with what?

WIBNI Business Insider had an editor or two...

(I think that the word that was intended may have been 'comped'.)

7 posted on 10/17/2014 9:48:20 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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I use Matlab all of the time for image processing algorithm development. I’m not *good* with it yet (my main area of “expertise” is FPGA development for said image processing algorithms), but can get really good with it for $141K/year :-).


8 posted on 10/17/2014 9:51:14 AM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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Why does Google need people experienced with MethLabs?


9 posted on 10/17/2014 9:51:59 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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Lots of people on Defense projects were using MATLAB.

When we still had Defense projects.

Google should be finding a lot of candidates out there.


10 posted on 10/17/2014 9:52:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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The One App You Need On Your Résumé If You Want A Job At Google

Matlab is an "App"? So it's a little program I can download and run on my cell phone for $2.99? I'll get right to it.

(Said as someone who has had to have that "little chat" with a PhD that the miracle ten line Matlab function he gave to me to put on an embedded computer requires ten times as much memory as I have available and would take an hour to run even if I had the memory.)

11 posted on 10/17/2014 9:57:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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Walter White is dead, someone has to pick up the slack...


12 posted on 10/17/2014 10:01:15 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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Can we get Jesse Jackson to weigh in? How does any of this affect Google not employing enough black workers to meet his approval???


13 posted on 10/17/2014 10:01:36 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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a PhD that the miracle ten line Matlab function he gave to me to put on an embedded computer requires ten times as much memory as I have available and would take an hour to run even if I had the memory

Constraints? Those are for people who can't think outside the box.

14 posted on 10/17/2014 10:11:10 AM PDT by meadsjn
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Maybe...if you could model it in MathLab, download the Gcode to CNC a prototype to a supplier in China tomorrow, and complete market tests by next Thursday..


15 posted on 10/17/2014 10:18:26 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Constraints? Those are for people who can't think outside the box.

Embedded programming: being paid to think inside the box... a very, very small box. :-)

16 posted on 10/17/2014 10:18:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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Why does Google need people experienced with MethLabs?

How else would they get their workers on the 24/7 schedule?

17 posted on 10/17/2014 10:20:34 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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I can download and run on my cell phone for $2.99?

An individual license for MATLAB is going for $2150.00


18 posted on 10/17/2014 10:45:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It’s MATLAB, and I use it all the time, have been in engineering almost 30 years, and I sure don’t get paid $141,000. That must only happen in the big cities, in which I REFUSE to live.


19 posted on 10/17/2014 11:09:08 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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Big data — how to create it, manipulate it, and put it to good use — is one of those areas in which Google is really enthusiastic about.

Nosey Parkers.

20 posted on 10/17/2014 11:50:52 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The queen is their slave.)
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