Google’s Apprenticeship in Application Development in Zurich offers a four-year program with a one-year Basislehrjahr, guided by a team of vocational trainers, exposure to software design and development across Google’s product suite. The minimum qualifications emphasize completing the highest level of secondary school, a 4.5 GPA average or higher, a completed Multicheck Junior ICT report, and fluent English and German for stakeholder and school interactions. Preferred qualifications include coding interest and experience, curiosity for new technologies, strong reading of technical texts, and solid logical thinking. To apply, highlight concrete coding projects, demonstrate bilingual communication, and tailor your CV to emphasize teamwork, testing, and documentation skills along with a clear motivation to learn.
A professional team of vocational trainers (Berufsbildner:innen) will guide and support you during your 4-year apprenticeship with Google. After a 1-year foundation course (Basislehrjahr) you will join your Google team in Zurich and will be fully engaged in existing and new projects that will challenge you and lay the foundation for a successful future as an application developer.
As a Computer Scientist Apprentice focused on Application Development, you'll dive into software design and development, working alongside various front-end and back-end teams across Google's product suite. This immersive experience will expose you to the varied roles and career paths within this dynamic field.
Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.