Conversations with Turkey's Career Pioneers - Bülent Hiçsönmez

We had our ninth Turkey's Career Pioneers Talk with Google Turkey Director Bülent Hiçsönmez. Mr. Hiçsönmez started his talk by asking students what they want to study at their university. He told students, most of whom wanted to study engineering, to study engineering and later work in the field because this would provide a range of alternatives in their professional life.

Hiçsönmez explained that he became the Director of Google Turkey through his education, previous work experience and after 14 interviews. He added that the reason for having that many interviews at Google was the value they give to good people, and the belief that the person they hire for the position will genuinely add value to the company. He advised students that no matter what they do, they should do it well and with enthusiasm.

Hiçsönmez indicated that Google’s mission is to develop technologies that will affect people’s lives and as a start they took all the information in the world and made it available to us in the form of a search engine. He also said that they transfer information through gmail, googlemap, youtube, etc., and that now they are working on digitizing all libraries in the world. He said that they make money through advertisements and google play, but as Google they are motivated not through money but through creating good things that meet needs.

Hiçsönmez stated that everything in the world is changing rapidly and ten years from now the big companies that we know of will disappear. He said that we need to be prepared for this change and also added that IP will be in any device that we can think of, which will ease our lives. Hiçsönmez also answered student questions.