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Noogler

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Etymology

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Blend of new +‎ Googler

Noun

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Noogler (plural Nooglers)

  1. (informal) A new employee of the Google corporation.
    Coordinate terms: Googler, Xoogler
    • 2012, James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, How Google Tests Software, page 190:
      TEMs can view the resume and interview scores of a Noogler and place a "bid" on the allocation. In heavy hiring seasons, there are generally multiple candidates to be allocated to multiple projects. Competing bids are the norm []
    • 2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 298:
      As an experiment, we added a fifteen-minute segment to Noogler orientation for some people that explained the benefits of being proactive, provided five specific actions Nooglers could take to find the things they needed, and reiterated how this behavior fits with Google’s entrepreneurial mindset: []