Google Glossary
The company-wide system for setting and tracking ambitious goals.
What are OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)?
Genesis group that identifies and sources leaders to engage with associates and present during staff meetings about their teams
What is the Training and Development Committee (T&D)?
When a Large Language Model (LLM) generates a response that is confident, fluent, and grammatically correct, but factually incorrect or logically inconsistent with its training data
What is a hallucination?
The current CEO of Alphabet
Who is Sundar Pichai?
This core corporate finance team is responsible for managing Alphabet's cash, investments, and financial risks like currency exchange.
What is Treasury?
The suite of tools/platform used extensively in Finance for data analysis, querying (often with F1), and building dashboards.
What is Plx?
The name of the Genesis class that graduated about 6 months ago
What is Iota?
This tool helps reduce hallucinations by grounding AI responses in your own trusted documents.
What is Notebook LM?
The general term for the collection of companies within Alphabet that are not part of Google.
What are Other Bets?
This Business Finance team partners with the Ads, Shopping, and Payments Product Areas to provide financial insights, forecasting, and P&L management.
What is Ads Commerce Finance (ACF)?
The platform/site for finding and enrolling in internal training courses and development resources.
What is go/grow?
Genesis event for undergraduate students interested in learning about careers in Finance at Google
What is Genesis2Genesis Student Conference?
This AI-powered Chrome extension can access the content of your current tab, and allows pinning multiple internal resources like g3docs, Drive files, and bugs for context-aware assistance.
What is the LLM Extension?
The primary source of Google's revenue.
What is Ads?
This team's mission is to help Finance users navigate and adopt new systems, processes, and transformations, often partnering with FST (Finance Solutions and Transformation).
What is Organizational Change Management (OCM)?
The internal service for IT support.
What is Techstop?
The year the first Genesis class, the "Alpha Class," started.
What is 2015?
This defines the role or expertise you want the AI to adopt
What is persona?
This "Other Bet" aims to increase healthspan by tackling the science of aging
What is Calico?
This fundamental corporate finance team ensures the accuracy and integrity of Alphabet's financial statements and oversees accounting policies and internal controls.
What is Controllership?
A Google Compute Unit, a key metric for Borg resource allocation.
What is a GCU?
The original acronym for the program.
What is AFARP?
Acronym for the anatomy of a great prompt
What is PTCF ?(persona, task, context, format)
While Class A and Class C shares are traded publicly, these 'super-voting' Class B shares—which grant 10 votes per share—are unlisted and held primarily by these two individuals to maintain majority control.
Who are Larry Page and Sergey Brin?
As Google scales its AI infrastructure, this team is tasked with the end-to-end management of Alphabet’s physical assets, from tracking multi-billion dollar CapEx spend to calculating the depreciation schedules used in financial forecasts.
What is Finance GFA (Google Fixed Assets)?