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At the scale at which Google operates even small optimizations can save tons of data. Not saying this was a small contribution, but I agree, mostly internship a

• okreallywtf 10y ago
  I think that is how so many school projects and internships end up. You just feel like fuel for some grant machine, your contributions are overblown and you might not have been able to contribute as much as you wanted or maybe you didn't get nearly as much mentorship as you were promised and expecting, but everyone plays along and so it continues. I would like to think that if you go high enough eventually you end up in places where the experience matches the expectation better but maybe not.
• balls187 10y ago
  > A lot of my friends who have interned at Google felt insignificant The world has changed a lot. When I was in college, I sought an internship specifically to have real-world experience on my resume to get a leg up when it came time to find a job.
  • pmiller2 10y ago
    Why do you say the world has changed? That's still the primary purpose of internships.
    • balls187 10y ago
      Per the parent's comment, Google needs to market their internships because there is little value to them, because as interns his friends felt insignificant. I would say in my day, a Google Internship would have been amazing experience, even if I wasn't special and unique, however, Google wasn't really a the massive behemoth in 2001 (I first started using Google at my internship when the head of IT told me about it).