What it does: Google specializes in the provision of various digital services such as search engines, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, online advertising, e-commerce, quantum computing, consumer electronics, and software.
Mission: Google aims to facilitate the organization of information resources and make them useful and accessible to everyone.
Size and presence: Google Nigeria has a modest physical presence in the country. There's an office situated in Lagos with an unknown number of employees. However, Google has over 70 offices in more than 50 countries worldwide and employs over 130,000 staff.
Best known for: Google Nigeria is the Nigerian extension of this information technology giant. It's well known for its data collection, technological advantages via AI, and market dominance in the Nigerian digital space. Globally, Google favorably competes with the most powerful companies (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon) in the world.
The good bits: Working with the brightest technological/digital minds in the country. Good pay. Exposure to ample technological opportunities.
The not so good bits: Google Nigeria has a modest workspace that's still in its development or expansion stages.
Google was established on September 4, 1998, by Sergey Brin and Larry Page during their time as post-graduate students at Stanford Varsity in California.
In 2004, Google became a publicly listed company, and a year after, it was restructured as a full subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is the biggest subsidiary of Alphabet and the holding firm for the internet interests and properties of Alphabets.
Both co-founders own roughly 14% of Google's publicly listed shares and control approximately four times that in stockholder voting power thanks to their super-voting stock. In October 2015, Sundar Pichai replaced Larry Page as the CEO of Google.
Google has grown exponentially to become arguably the most diversified business in the world. It offers a vast range of services and products, each of these products or services are dominant in its market niche and have wide applications. There's Google Maps, Earth, Translate, Chrome, Drive, Pixel, Meet, YouTube, Cloud, Workspace, and many more.
Today, Google is ranked among the most valuable companies in the world. In 2017, Google officially began operations in Nigeria, and it's only a matter of time before it begins expanding there.
Google has an enviable company culture that's regarded as the standard for other companies. One of the company's core values is creativity. Google doesn't restrict its staff to the work desk all through the working hours of the day. Google goes with what works best for its employees.
Another core value the company embodies is employee transparency. It has a flat administrative structure that makes it easy for entry-level staff to communicate with an executive without following a bureaucratic process. This and more creates a very healthy work atmosphere for fresh graduates, interns, and experienced professionals.
Google Nigeria has a simple recruitment process that involves job application, interviews, and getting a job offer.
Google is the ideal company for fresh graduates and interns to realise their full professional potential. Google has been named the best place to work by reputable magazines. As an innovative firm, Google encourages the growth of its employees.
As a fresher, you get to work on numerous creative projects with some of the brightest minds in the IT industry. There's also the perk of getting mentored by more experienced colleagues. Add all this to the huge boost "Employee at Google" will give your CV.
The average annual salary of a fresh graduate in Google Nigeria is ₦3.7 million.
Google intends to invest a billion dollars in Nigeria and other prominent African countries to improve their digital economy.
According to news reports, Google was fined a huge sum in 2017 for advertising its shopping service comparison at the top of its search results.