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35:48The Google 20% time myth — bustedAl Elliott: Yeah Richard Clarke: Now, this is going to be a bit controversial. About 6 months ago, I met some ex-Google employees, right? 2 of them very, pretty high up when they left. And I said to them, I met them sepaEP 317 · 9 Jul 2026·interview· 35:48–37:1912:16Google embraces AI in job interviewsAl Elliott: Well, we've seen a lot, or I've seen a lot of stuff about companies who are still trying to work out how to stop candidates from using AI in job interviews. And it's becoming increasingly difficult because thEP 308 · 9 Jun 2026·news roundup· 12:16–16:0812:23Story 2: Google's Generative AI Leader certificationLeanne Elliott: Certification Al Elliott: Not certification Leanne Elliott: CertificationEP 276 · 17 Feb 2026·news roundup· 12:23–16:5214:45The Google Experience Center — a culture in contrastDustin Hillis: Um, it was kind of the opposite of Chick-fil-A when I walked into the Google Experience Center. Um, it, it was cool. It was, it was clean. It was nice. It just didn't feel personal. And so, uh, as we're deEP 267 · 15 Jan 2026·interview· 14:45–19:420:00Carolina's story: from valedictorian to empty on her 34th birthdayAl Elliott: There's a Google employee who stopped drinking water during work hours, not because she forgot, but because she didn't have time to use the bathroom. There's a valedictorian with a perfect GPA who ate her lunEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 0:00–5:2211:43Liz Reid, Google Search, and the 'loud voice'Andrew Palmer: I mean, his thesis is that humans are really bad at making decisions. That's not quite— that's a little unfair, actually. But lots of the decisions within organizations are subject to cognitive bias, humanEP 217 · 24 Jul 2025·interview· 11:43–13:308:34Sergey Brin calls for 60-hour workweeksAl Elliott: Well, this one caught my eye. I've always been, well, I'm not always, but Back in the day when I was starting my businesses, I was fascinated by, uh, by Google because it seemed to come from nowhere. Um, one,EP 176 · 4 Mar 2025·news roundup· 8:34–15:093:38Who is Bruce Daisley?Bruce Daisley: Hi, I'm Bruce Daisley. For a long time, I did technology jobs. I worked at companies like Google, at Twitter when it was Twitter, and I worked at a place like that. Along the way, I developed a fascinationEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 3:38–5:2325:36The return-to-office debate — Google, Zoom, and what employees actually wantLeanne Elliott: And everybody thinks that those companies in the IT sector are really good. Did you hear? I mean, Google now has a lot of these techie companies. Twitter, did you hear what was it? Twitter? No, it wasn't.EP 160 · 7 Jan 2025·other· 25:36–30:166:30Eric Schmidt's outdated views on Google's work-from-home cultureAl Elliott: Google is in the news yet again, and it's their ex-CEO who's been a bit outspoken. You might remember his name, Eric Schmidt. I'd like to call him the boomer's boomer. He left Google in 2020, but a recent StaEP 124 · 3 Sept 2024·news roundup· 6:30–11:508:11Google's 15-minute onboarding secretAl Elliott: Well, Inc magazine had an article about how Google uses a 15-minute conversation to onboard. So Google did a load of research to understand why some new employees adapted quicker than others. They concluded wEP 95 · 7 May 2024·news roundup· 8:11–12:200:33Google's hiring evolution: skills vs. personalityAl Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Leanne Elliott: And that's the other thing. If you think she's good and her performance is good, then she's not good. She's frEP 86 · 2 Apr 2024·news roundup· 0:33–9:5221:11Google's 'Don't be evil' — three words that tell a storyAl Elliott: Google originally started off, don't be evil. In those 3 words, it told a story about its brand, about what it's going to do for its users. And now I say this with a pinch of salt, Trump, Donald Trump, make AEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 21:11–22:5156:27Google's 20% time — culture in actionLeanne Elliott: Again, I think we're talking here about psychological safety, around making sure that workloads actually facilitate time to innovate and create. Um, you can't just say, oh, we have a culture of innovationEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 56:27–57:12
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