About Google
Google is an American multinational technology company specialising in internet-related services and products. Its portfolio includes the Google Search engine, online advertising, the Android mobile operating system, the Chrome browser, Google Cloud, YouTube, Workspace productivity software, and consumer hardware such as the Pixel line. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA. Since 2015 it has operated as the principal subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. In India, Google operates major engineering centres in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Mumbai, and Pune. Indian fresher hiring is structured around the SWE-2 fresher software-engineering pipeline, the STEP internship for first- and second-year undergraduates, the Associate Product Manager track, and Site Reliability Engineering and research-science early-career roles. Google's Bangalore and Hyderabad offices host product, infrastructure, and AI/ML research teams contributing to Search, Ads, Cloud, Android, and YouTube globally. Public-facing student programmes that funnel into fresher hiring include Google Summer of Code, Code Jam (historically), Kick Start (historically), and the Google Developer Student Clubs network across Indian campuses.