Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011

2010 was a huge year for Google. Many of our big bets�on mobile, display advertising, the cloud and more�really started to pay off. Amazingly, Android now runs on over 100 devices with more than 300,000 activations each day. Chrome has at least 120 million active users and it�s growing quickly. Last year more than 1 million businesses switched to Google Apps and embraced its 100% web approach. And we�ve made search faster than ever, even when you�re on the go.

But it wasn�t just a growth year for our products�the company grew as well. In 2010 we added more than 4,500 Googlers, primarily in engineering and sales: second only to 2007 when we added over 6,000 people to Google.

I love Google because of our people. It's inspiring to be part of the team. And that's why I am excited about 2011�because it will be our biggest hiring year in company history. We�re looking for top talent�across the board and around the globe�and we�ll hire as many smart, creative people as we can to tackle some of the toughest challenges in computer science: like building a web-based operating system from scratch, instantly searching an index of more than 100 million gigabytes and even developing cars that drive themselves. There�s something at Google for everyone�from geo, to enterprise, to video�with most of the work done in small teams, effectively working as start-ups. (The average number of software engineers on a project at Google is 3.5.) That�s why the vast majority of our people stay with us, building their careers and taking on new challenges within the company.

I joined Google more than eight years ago�when we had barely 500 employees and still used Outlook for email and AIM for chat�and while there have been many changes, Google is still the same entrepreneurial company it was when I started, encouraging Googlers to take on big ideas and high-risk, high-reward opportunities.

If you think you want to join the team, check out google.com/jobs.

Posted by Alan Eustace, SVP Engineering and Research