Google is quite possibly the best place to work in the world.
The tech giant headquartered in Mountain View, California, frequently ranks top tier on Business Insider's Best Companies To Work For In America list, landing in the No. 2 spot this year. Google was also judged to be the World's Most Attractive Employer this year by global research and advisory firm Universum, and employee ratings on Glassdoor earned the company the No. 1 spot on Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards, Best Places to Work 2015 .
Google's more than 57,000 employees love everything the "Googleplex" has to offer, including free Wi-Fi-enabled shuttles to and from work, free healthy meals, laundry and fitness facilities, 18 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave for birth moms and on-site childcare, and competitive pay — they report 84% high job satisfaction and earn a median salary of $133,000 after five years, according to survey data from PayScale .
Laszlo Bock, Google's HR boss, explains in his book, "Work Rules!," that the key to a successful workplace is constantly innovating, experimenting, and keeping things fun.
Mayra Felix.
"What's beautiful about this approach is that a great environment is a self-reinforcing one: All of these efforts support one another, and together create an organization that is creative, fun, hardworking, and highly productive," he writes.
Google has over 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the world. Mayra Felix, a strategic program manager for the Americas with Google's Global Account Management team, works in the company's California headquarters.
She started her career at Google in 2013 as a regional account manager, and prior to that moved to the US from Ecuador to attend Georgetown University.
We spoke to Felix to find out what it's really like to work for one of the world's top employers.
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