Ego. Peak technology. Yet some excellent organizational advice.

A good book, sharing some insight on Google's hiring and management practices. Would be useful for any manager that is working with "smart creatives" and willing to harness their skills and knowledge to build great products.

This book is full of fantastic advice for business leaders, and yet it also constantly provides useful advice for everyone else as well, from grand concepts like what makes an idea innovative to every day process tips like how to manage email effectively. I would highly recommend that anyone read this book, and I think it is a must-read for leaders at companies that take a more “traditional” approach. Many of the suggestions are ones that smart creatives at these companies find obvious and have been espousing for years, but this book describes them much better and perhaps could help give that “argument from authority” bias to help convince some of the more old-fashioned executives.

It's interesting. Some unique anecdotes about the early days and the "Google way to do things." But most of it is just echo chamber hype from Eric about how great he and Google are. I'm not sure what else I expected, but it really seemed one sided.

Pretty good for a management book, but its just hard to give higher than a three with all the arrogance oozing out. See Silicon Valley (the show).

As interesting and inspiring as this was, it also feels like a bit of fiction. Particularly the section about talent and looking for too much "relevant" experience is something Google advises against. Yet, for entry-level positions at their own company, they're looking for a Master's Degree and 10 years experience.

Still, it's nice to think of the ideal and strive for it.

I don't like management books at all. They are boring, preachy and far from reality.
It took me a while to warm up to this book and almost a month to finish reading it. But it's been worth the time. It is about Google culture but so much more than that.
I was surprised to see a whole chapter on how to interview. I thought about it so many times when interviewers turn up to interview a candidate without even checking your CV. The success of an interview is as much a responsibility of the interviewer as much as of the interviewee.
There are many more such gems.. stuff that we wished happened in our company. So many things just struck to the core. I have attended so many meetings where the top management has no clue what is happening and nobody wants to hear the truth.
Loved this book.

This was an interesting book about doing radical and often unexpected things to move Google forward.
I suppose there is a lot of survivorship bias, as it is impossible to replicate this success.
Still there are a lot of interesting ideas and suggestions, which could help the company and the workers. There is one essential condition though - both company and people should care about each other and to their best.

A worthwhile book - both entertaining and insightful. If it's an area in which you have interest (business with or management of "smart creatives") the. I would recommend it. Also, if you're just curious about Google (as the title might reflect), the content will likely be interesting.