At Google, there is a recognition program called "Peer Bonus". All full-time Googlers can nominate another Googler to receive this bonus if you feel that somebody is doing a great job for the team and/or for the company. In order to prevent people from abusing the system, there are some restrictions like if A nominates B, then B can't nominate A within 6 months. There is also a small committee within each department to review the nominations. The bonus is $175 cash plus a cute little certificate proving the recognition.
After reading through the email for the first time, Mochi still couldn't believe what I just read. I mean, I really don't think I did anything so special or important that deserves this recognition! The tech lead of GMM, Mark, wrote the following as the reason to give mochi this bonus:
"Michelle Chen has done a fantastic job in the role of SET for google maps for mobile. She's incredibly organized and very smart. She's provided much needed order to our testing process. I'm specifically nominating her for setting up an extensive prober script that has already picked up some existing unnoticed issues. Also, the prober will allow us to be more confident about server pushes in the future and will allow a quicker turnaround time from the time a server is ready to the time we're able to push to production."Yes, the highlighted parts are the ones that made mochi smile for the rest of the day! It means so much to me when someone I look up to give me this type of recognition!!
Right after Mochi read the email, Mochi ran into Mark on the hallway. Mochi really didn't know what to tell him except saying "Thank You"!! Mochi doesn't know how to express how happy I am or how much this means to me in words! (yes, present tense, 'cause Mochi still doesn't know)
(yeah, Mochi looked dumb and Mark must think I'm silly...)
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