14 words that only Google employees know

Forty thousand employees work at Google, but they all speak the same language, in which sometimes they get words that are completely incomprehensible to outsiders. "Google" dialect decoded Business Insider.

plex

So abbreviated as Google headquarters with the name Googleplex, which is located on the territory of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California.

GBike

Vehicle on Google campus. GBike is renowned for its appearance - painting in the usual Google red, yellow, green and blue colors.

Stan

Walking through the "Googleplex", you can see a statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex called Stan. The statue stands on campus as a reminder that Google will never become a dinosaur. At least, this is the theory of Stan's appointment.

Noogler

So in the company they call beginners, and the word sounds like “newgler”. They are easily identified by the multicolored caps with propellers that are given to each new one.

Gayglers

Members and supporters of the LGBT community are called “geyglers.”

Greyglers

Greiglers (not to be confused with geyglers) - Google employees are over forty years old. This name is associated with gray gray. Among the most famous "greiglerov" - one of the fathers of the Internet Vinton Cerf.

Xoogler

They are called former Google employees. The term for leaving the company is an abbreviation of ex-Googler and is pronounced "zugler."

Googlegeist

So called the annual survey of Google employees, in which they evaluate managers and job satisfaction in general. While most employees shy away from HR surveys, more than 90% “googles” fill Googlegeist.

Perf

Acronym for Performance Review. Employees set a goal for themselves and set out a number of quantifiable results that will help them achieve this goal. Google executives do the same for the entire company. Performance Review occurs once a year and determines the rise or fall of employees in the next year.

TGIF

In addition to being an abbreviation of Thank God It's Friday, the weekly rally is also held on Thursdays. The meeting lasts an hour, and it is there that the “Newglers” get their funny colorful hats.

Jolly good fur

Fellow called the most valuable engineers of Google. Google translates Jolly Good Fellow as “a cheerful, good fellow.” Such is the nickname of Google employee Chade-Man Tan, whose work is to make colleagues happy.

Tech Stop

The code name of the "Google" IT department. The guys from Tech Stop repair the computers of the company's employees and are present in every Google office around the world.

20% time

Google allows employees to spend 20% of the time at work on something not related to direct responsibilities. At this time, Googlers came up with products such as Gmail, Google News and AdSense.

GUTS

These are not guts at all, as one could translate literally. GUTS is the abbreviation of Google Universal Ticketing Systems. The system helps employees report problems that a company may address.

Fixits

Initially, FixIts were a way for Google employees to focus on minor issues. At first they were 24-hour competitions, but FixIts turned into short “machine-gun queues” for clearing accumulated projects.

We will remind, earlier published 15 is a strange question that is asked at interviews at Google.