Google engineers are armed with the best management principles.
Everybody knows that Google is one of the biggest names in the tech sector. That raises some pretty big questions like how the heck did they manage to become so great and what is it about their engineers that make the company achieve success after success. In order to understand these things, we need to take a closer look at their hiring as well as management policies.
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For starters, Google does not look for your average manager. What they require in a manager is different from what other companies tend to look into. The second thing, which is rather interesting by the way, is that Google does not really care much about formal education.
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The fact is that engineers and managers tend to have a pretty brought relationship. The majority of engineers find managers to be a bother. They would rather concentrate on their work such as coding instead of coordinating with managers and bosses. When Google was still in its infancy, its founders tried using a flat approach by eliminating all managerial posts. Of course, that experiment existed only for a few months. After all, managers do have an important role to play in an organization’s setup by improving efficiency.
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Now Google is known for hiring the best. However, instead of choosing guys based on their marks, they go for cognitive abilities and skills. Google gives a lot of freedom and leeway inside its organizations. It ensures that managers and engineers are able to respect the skill set of the other side. Nonetheless, the question remains as to how to get these guys to value management so as to ensure efficiency.
This caused Google to try out Project Oxygen where a special group analyzed and tested people to find out their managerial capabilities. In other words, Google used data to find out which of their great engineers could become exceptional managers.
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