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# googlegeist

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0:00Intro: Bill Yost, Googlegeist and the 90% response rateLeanne Elliott: Our guest today, Bill Yost, spent almost 4 years running Google's flagship employee engagement survey, the Googlegeist, which hit a 90% response rate year after year. Now he does the same at Netflix, and EP 283 · 12 Mar 2026·intro· 0:00–1:0012:03How Googlegeist actually workedBill Yost: Yeah, I was on the employee engagement team at Google for almost 4 years. I, in that time, launched, I think, 7 of our annual employee engagement surveys called Googlegeist. Which is, uh, it's a fun name on liEP 283 · 12 Mar 2026·interview· 12:03–16:54

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