Wonderful Google employee Jessica Chan, who works as a compliance specialist for YouTube, showed our journalism class around Google headquarters last Thursday, and our trip was enjoyable and delicious. And I learned lots of fun facts about Google. For instance, "Googlers" can ride around on Razor scooters or Segways if they need to traverse all of Google's massive building on 15th Street in Chelsea. Google just purchased the entire 2.9 million square foot building in December for a whopping $1.8 billion, and it is kindly letting Barnes and Noble and the other companies already headquartered in it finish out their leases before Google takes over the whole building.
Google also has massage therapists on staff every day, who give free massages to employees. Business wear is not required, and we saw plenty of employees in jeans and even tennis shoes. But the best part about working at Google is its cafeteria, which employees gourmet chefs. Google's food team emails the menu to Google employees every day, and its chefs strive for healthy, innovative options. Their cafeteria emphasizes locally grown food, vegetarian/vegan options and raw food.
On the day of our visit, the cafeteria offered an amazing array of entree options, including roasted butternut squash with oyster mushrooms, seitan and mushroom stew, and pan-seared Atlantic sea bass. Their raw food options included dishes like strawberry, daikon, and pineapple salad. So delicious! And of course there were wonderful desserts too - a chai creme mouse with blueberry sauce and spiced whipped cream! And Dr. Seuss-themed cupcakes (it had been his birthday the day before)!
For more pictures of Google food, one Google employee kept a photoblog on Flickr of his daily gastronomic intake at the cafeteria: Brett Lider's Food Blog. Also thanks to our professor Betty Ming Liu for making our trip possible!
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