Googley en · ADJ
Etymology
From Google + -y.
Meanings
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(slang) Characteristic of Google, especially in reference to its company culture.
Even as an intern, I was allowed to treat two guests a month to the free food and facilities. No one really cared if you went over; it was an honour system in which everyone was expected to be appropriately Googley.
2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:[…] emerging as a leader to whom others look for advice on what is “Googley.”
2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 53:In a book on management, Laszlo Bock, Google's longtime HR boss, wrote that the company hired for “Googley” traits: humility, conscientiousness, and “comfort with ambiguity.” Being willing to plunge down a slide at work without shame—that's Googley. Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”
2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most Googley | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more Googley | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |