Career @ Google ?!

Google treats its employees and prospective employees very well is the image. Former may be true but for the later......Au contraire, my readers !

1. When they held an information session on campus (they do that every now and then), someone asked them "career progression" and apparently the team bluffed its answers around it. Either they were ill-prepared or there is no structure in the organization (quite possible...given the fact that the org operates on the basis of CHAOS)

2. They dont reply the students either way. At the entry itself, if this is the condition, then after getting in, ppl said that noone will care much...though the extra stuff shown in the "Google behind the screens" video has been all fluffy and superficial and only to attract talent.

They dont reply for eons and then suddenly one fine day, they will email you ...out of the blue.
Your application gets lost in the CHAOS at Google. Either they dont have their act together or they simply dont care...both of which are detrimental to their image among the talent pool ppl.

On giving this as a feedback to the International Recruiting personnel at Google headquarters in NYC, I was told that Google is aware about this issue and that they are working on it.

Following are suggestions which I make:
1. Every applicant be given an application id which can be tracked.
2. Internally, the applicant must be mapped to someone, who will be solely responsible for communication with the applicant(s).

Companies which do not reply the employees in some definite time period tend to lose interest by talented individuals. Many sharp brains on CMU campus are now aware about this and have chosen to stay away from them. The sexiness of having a Google business card is fading rapidly !