Meaning of googley | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of Google, especially in reference to its company culture.

slang

Examples

“I tried to talk to Mum, but she has the googley eyes for Seth and won't hear a bad word about him.”

“[…] emerging as a leader to whom others look for advice on what is “Googley.””

“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.”

“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.””

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