Google receives 75k job applications in a week

London: Internet search giant Google received a staggering 75,000 job applications within just a week of kicking off its massive recruitment drive, says a media report. According to the Daily Mail, "Google received a staggering 75,000 job applications in just one week as it launch(ed) a huge recruitment spree."

The U.S.-based company holds the record for the highest number of job applications received when it advertised openings in May, 2007, the report noted. However, the latest barrage of applications tops that figure by 15 percent, with the company planning to add more than 6,000 new jobs. Competition for roles at the company is likely to be fierce, with 12 hopeful candidates vying for a single position an average.

Google had just 3,000 staff when it got listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2004. It now employs 24,400 workers in 63 offices around the world. The company plans to increase hiring as it pushes deeper into mobile services, display advertising and Internet applications.The job vacancies are across the entire company and include posts for software engineers that design new products, enterprise managers and technology experts.

Google's Senior Vice-President of Engineering and Research, Alan Eustace, said in a blog post last week, 'We're looking for top talent. 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."

Eustace further said, "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."

Google was ranked as America's best workplace by Fortune magazine in 2007 and 2008.

High U.S visa fees affecting Indian professionals

NEW DELHI: Demanding relaxation in the U.S visa regime , an industry chamber today said the recent hike in professional visa fees by the Obama administration is hurting interests of Indians who want to do business there.

"Today, a lot of Indians wanting to set a shop in the US face difficulties. Visas are being used as non-tariff barriers," said Gautam Mahajan, National President of Indo - American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) here.

"There should be some professionalism in terms of looking at the needs of companies who've invested in the US," he added.

Under the Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 -- popularly called the Border Security Bill -- the US had hiked fee for certain categories of H-1B and L1 visas by at least USD 2,000 for the next five years.

Businesses in India and the US had termed the hike as discriminatory and said this would undermine the growing Indo-U.S economic relationship, with which the Obama Administration does not agree.

On the issue of radio tagging involving Indian students in the US, Mahajan said, "... (it) is wrong."

After being duped by a California-based "sham" university, scores of Indian students in the US were forced to wear radio collars around their ankles so that authorities can keep a track of their movements.

Meanwhile, a two-day Indo-US Economic Summit would be held here from February 11.

"Our objective is to make the Summit a stock taking exercise of the traditional contours of cooperation and at the same time reach out to newer and potential areas that open up opportunities for scaling business operations," Summit Chairman Lalit Bhasin said.

He said the Summit, to be attended by a large number of delegates from the two countries, would be inaugurated by Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

Banking, Finance: Are you ready for the job from Day 1?

THE recession in 2008 is a distant memory and the stock markets have almost reached their previous record high valuations. Financial sector is right now back from the brink, though global indicators are still far from satisfactory. But everybody agrees the worst is behind us.
So is the job market hot? Well, recruiters look at a combination of factors like articulated communication, presentation skills, overall personality, and the candidate’s basic knowledge of the industry.
They also test networking abilities and negotiation skills before inviting them on-board. For prepared candidates, opportunities do exist. But the million dollar question is - why is that after two years of a gruelling PGDM programme, are students still not ready to start work right away?
Are you job-ready?
“Not quite ready” is a common refrain. The course curriculum followed by academic institution provides the required knowledge inputs in management subjects like finance, marketing or HR. “ What it lacks is a vocational or industry focus,” says Judhajit Das, Chief Human Resources, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company.
Krish Lakshmikant, a leading headhunter seconds. The students do not apply their minds sufficiently and are just not ready to roll up their sleeves. The while collar AC room job mentality still persists he says. And corporations invest in costly training structures to get them job ready.
Fresh hires at Yes Bank undergo formal and intensive 5-week induction/ on-board programme. “We give them insight into company’s philosophy, culture, into our diverse business verticals and structure”, says Deodutta. Post that, the recruits are given on-the-job training and are exposed to 4-5 key support functions right at the inception stage. Similar induction programmes are conducted in Insurance and financial services sector too.
Where is the moolah?
In the insurance and banking sectors, entry-level salaries for MBAs range between Rs 5-8 lakhs per annum. Capital markets pay Rs 2.5 lakh or more for a sales and marketing function.
The entry-level salary band starts at Rs 1.5 lakhs per annum, varying city-to-city and the B-School the students come from. The highest salary in 2009 was Rs. 18 lakhs , while the average was Rs.10.20 lakhs, says Dr. Anupam Rastogi, Senior Prof. (Finance & Economics), NMIMS.
Skilled employees start higher, and the salaries are more if a professional exam has been cleared by a candidate. “Typically associate actuaries earn Rs. 20,00,000 plus pa and fellow actuaries Rs. 40,00,000 plus pa,” says Rajendra Shah, managing director, DS Actuarial Education Services.
Sounds like music to your ears? Then BFSI is your symphony indeed!

Top Ten Software Companies....

Forbes 2000

This yearly list shows 2000 large companies active in all kinds of industries. By selecting software & services a sublist can be made, which is 35 companies long in the 2010 edition. Forbes shows figures such as sales, profits, assets and market capitalization. Only public companies are listed. The ranking seems to be based upon a multiplication of sales × profits × assets × market capitalization. A Top 10 extract of the world's largest software companies according to the Forbes Global 2000 is provided below.

1.Apple Inc.

2.IBM

3.Microsoft

4.Google

5.Accenture

6.SAP AG

7.Hewlett Packard

8.Computer Science Corporation

9.Yahoo!

10.CA

Forbes includes services revenues given its listing of IBM, Accenture, Computer Sciences and Cap Gemini. Forbes also appears to include advertising revenues given the listing of Google and Yahoo in their Top 10. Large private software companies are not on the Forbes list. Market capitalization influences the ranking: Forbes has used the market cap of Mar 01 2010 to build their list.

The Software 500 by Software Magazine

A yearly list that is available after free subscription. The list offers 500 companies. Services revenues are included in the software revenues. Software magazine sends out a yearly request for data: companies fill in their own data online. As Software Magazine is primarily read in the US, the list also has a slight focus on the US, although it is becoming more international every year. The companies are ranked according to software & services sales revenues. Both public and private companies are included.

Software Magazine's Top 10 ranking of 2009 is as follows (see their website for more info):

1.IBM

2.Oracle Corporation

3.Accenture

4.Yahoo!

5.HP

6.SAP AG

7.HP

8.Capgemini

9.CSC

Due to the inclusion of services revenues, many IT services companies appear on the list: Accenture, CSC and Cap Gemini. Software Magazine usually publishes a new edition in September.

About Google

Founders of Google

Founders of Google:Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of 30 September 2008 the company has 20,123 full-time employees.

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on 4 September 1998.

Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better ranking of results than existing techniques, which ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page.Their search engine was originally nicknamed "BackRub" because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.A small search engine called Rankdex was already exploring a similar strategy

Top 20 AntiVirus

Here is a list of Top 20 Norton Anti-Virus Which i got after searching various websites

• 1. Kaspersky version 7.0.0.43 beta
  2. Kaspersky version 6.0.2.614
  3. Active Virus Shield by AOL version 6.0.0.308
  4. ZoneAlarm with KAV Antivirus version 7.0.337.000
  5. F-Secure 2007 version 7.01.128
  6. BitDefender Professional version 10
  7. BullGuard version 7.0.0.23
  8. Ashampoo version 1.30
  9. eScan version 8.0.671.1
  10. Nod32 version 2.70.32
  11. CyberScrub version 1.0
  12. Avast Professional version 4.7.986
  13. AVG Anti-Malware version 7.5.465
  14. F-Prot version 6.0.6.4
  15. McAfee Enterprise version 8.5.0i+AntiSpyware module
  16. Panda 2007 version 2.01.00
  17. Norman version 5.90.37
  18. ArcaVir 2007
  19. McAfee version 11.0.213
  20. Norton Professional 2007
  

Amazing Facts about Indians!

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji,
who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th
position now.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives.

There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population).

India and Tata Nano

Days after the big launch of the much awaited small car, the Tata Nano the debate continues on its implications on Indian economy and the infrastructure. I know this post comes a bit late, but so what keep reading. Many argue that the car is going to slow down India in its Economical growth, even noted Journalists like Thomas L Friedman, of the NY Times asking not to follow American footprints. Dr. Pachauri, who had sleepless nights on the car, adds that the car is not the transport solution for India. It was never intended to be.
To begin with, Tata Nano does make a car’s dream for many Indian’s come true. Many of them who had a two wheeler as the only mode of transport would like to upgrade to this one. The implication of this as envisaged by Dr Pachauri is that it would rather add to the no of vehicles on the street rather not hitting the Indian bike market. Definitely, I would agree to some extent on that. A car can never replace a bike. The average Indian buyer would still like to own the bike, while adding the car.