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Olivet University IT student Experiences Googleplex, Modern Work Culture

A group of Olivet University  IT (OIT) Masters students took part in a tour of Google's headquarter campus, Googleplex, in Mountain View, CA, which is not far from Olivet University's San Francisco Campus.  Students spent time speaking with Google engineers and learned about the modern work culture at the tech giant’s campus. 

The company's rapid growth along with its creative team of employees offered a glimpse at how Google employees balance diligence with innovative work. 

"All the Google employees are very smart and determined working over 8 hours a day," said OIT student Buzhun Zhu.  "There's a healthy learning atmosphere that encourages everyone to improve and collaborate." 

Part of Google's desire is to enhance performance from their workforce through education.  Through its internal training programs called GoogleEDU, employees can receive training in anything from management, presentation skills, to technical related skills.  To ensure that employees remember what they learned in classes, the lessons are applied to their daily work routines.  Olivet University students were excited to see the process happening in the field as they experienced similar procedures within Olivet’s R&D and concept for missions training.  The tour also offered insightful looks into how an R&D department is comprised including scientific research and funding. 

Work and play comes together as the Google campus offers plenty of amenities such as fitness rooms, volleyball courts, swimming pools, game rooms, a grand piano, abundant supplies of food and drink at workstations. Google’s working environment offered plenty of inspiration for students in seeing how companies manage work, play, inspiration, and collaboration.

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OCB Offers "God's ROI" Management Course

The Olivet College of Business looks into Return on Investment for the kingdom in this quarter’s managerial accounting course.  Led by OCB faculty member Linda Lim, the Finance II – Managerial Accounting course is part of the Olivet College of Business MBAcurriculum. 

Lim will look to guide students to better understand, acquire, and utilize the rich information produced by these accounting systems.  Students will also be able to identify the information required and how to request such information. 

"Accounting is a core principle in business as well as in faith. In a corporation, managers are responsible for delivering top-line and bottom-line results, referring to sales and net income respectively. In faith, God entrusts us with many talents, and will someday ask us to give an accounting of what we have achieved with these talents (God’s ROI, if you will),”states Lim.

As businesses evolve to adapt to a changing environment, the information becomes necessary to inform decisions and evolve.  Students seeking to go into missions and business will learn to take information from existing sources and evaluate it differently with new sources of information developed.  The knowledge available in the course enables each participant to better function in a world that is altering itself before our very eyes.    

“Stewardship is a key trait of the mature Christian, and a deep understanding of accounting will help OCB students demonstrate this characteristic not only in companies but in their private lives as well,” added Lim.

Lim has extensive working experience in the field of corporate accounting for Fortune 500 companies and is also a Certified Public Account.