googley

1. misspellingMisspelling of googly.

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

   2014, Jaimie Admans, Creepy Christmas

comparative more Googley · superlative most Googley

1. slangbusinessCharacteristic of Google, especially in reference to its company culture.

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

   2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 53

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: Googlish