Yulia Solovieva is a well-known woman in the IT world, because since the beginning of 2013 she has been the CEO of the Google representative office in Russia. How did Julia become a director and what was her life like before taking office?
Childhood and youth
Yulia Solovyova is one of the members of the Personnel Reserve of the President of the Russian Federation (this reserve consists of the so-called “presidential thousand” of management personnel). And in 2010, according to the rating of the popular Finance magazine, Julia was included in the TOP business women of the Russian Federation.
Julia was born in Severodonetsk on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. Julia's dad is from the Don, and her mother is a citizen of Lithuania. Julia's parents met in St. Petersburg during their studies, and then moved to Moscow. After dad went to Severodonetsk on a business trip, mom, being in a position, decided to go with him. Julia and her twin sister were born in this city.
Since dad worked as a diplomat and specialized in African countries, Julia spent her childhood in Africa and Moscow. Because of this, the whole family spent a lot of time in America, Nigeria, Ethiopia and other countries. In 1993 Yulia graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University at the Faculty of Foreign Languages. Julia also studied at Harvard Business School, where she received an MBA degree.
Top management
After completing her studies, Julia Solovieva found her first job and became a development manager for Global Telesystems (a telecommunications organization). Also, Julia at various times held the following positions in the same field:
- Director of Operations and Development at Mary Kay, a cosmetic organization.
- Director of organizational development of the television organization "NTV-Plus".
- Leading position in the Dutch consulting organization Booz Allen Hamiton.
Since the beginning of the 2000s, Julia Solovieva also continued to work as a top manager in several of the largest telecommunications corporations. So, she has shown herself excellently in the following companies: "Mobile TeleSystems", "ProfMedia" and "Telecom Express".
At the beginning of 2009, Julia moved to a new position for herself - she became the chairman of the board of directors at Rambler Media. And two years later, in 2011, she became president of the ProfMedia organization, but at the end of the same year she decided to resign and resigned.
And finally, in 2013, Julia moved to work for Google, where she immediately took the position of CEO of the representative office of this company in Russia. It should be noted that before joining, the girl went through about 30 different interviews with many top managers of the organization, and these interviews lasted 6 months.
Such a rather dynamic marathon can be explained by the corresponding policy of the Google company. According to its policy, it is necessary to provide the most coherent team of directors in all regional offices. It is important that the team of directors in the regional offices is truly a team, and its members are suitable both professionally and in human relationships. According to the general expression of the organization, this interaction means "to be Google". This is why newcomers to the company are called Nooglers.
As Yulia herself notes, this initiative comes from potential employers. It should be noted that Solovyova, having chosen this position, rejected another, more promising vacancy - this is the position of director in the company of the publishing house Sanoma Independent Media.
Julia's work at Google and its advantages
In her new position, Yulia had to quickly adapt and adjust to the freedom-loving order of the organization. Yulia also had to get used to the fact that she does not and will not have large offices, as well as to many other standards of Google offices. However, as Yulia notes, such standards have advantages.
For example, regardless of where a person is, he will always feel as if he is at home, next to the family of the same employees in a single Google space. Also, the company does not have a dress code, so any director or employee (including the founder) can appear in shorts. However, the company employs the principle of self-organization, because here each person is the master of his own time. That is, a person can work today and be on the weekend tomorrow. Only the result is important in this matter.
Yulia notes that very comfortable conditions have been created for the girls in this organization. These include:
- Three meals a day free of charge.
- Multifunctional kitchen.
- Fresh juice.
- Light snacks and fruits are always available.
- Showers.
- Table tennis.
- Massage rooms and hairdressing salons.
- Dry cleaners.
Google also has excellent insurance policies. For example, for women it is insurance for the management of pregnancy, material support after the birth of a child, as well as special programs for children under one year old.
At the moment, the specialist is faced with a large-scale task - organizing the joint development of the company's vision and improving its work in Russia. She has a lot of time, since Yulia was not very lucky in her personal life - she almost became a wife three times, but she always thought better of it, never replenishing her biography with her husband and children.
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