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Well you must have accepted an interview for that kind of team (perhaps unknowlingly; this kind of thing can be quite opaque to the candidate a company like Goo

Well you must have accepted an interview for that kind of team (perhaps unknowlingly; this kind of thing can be quite opaque to the candidate a company like Google). Obviously not everyone at Google is working on ads and tracking. In fact, I would bet the farm that it's a minority under 5% if not under 1%. I think yours is a good story -- it worked out for you. But, honestly, you didn't know Google's business was an advertising and tracking business? Don't know the exact number but I think it's still over 90% of their revenue is from ads. Come on.

mrguyorama 8y ago
I was just getting ready to graduate from college at the time. I understood google did a significant amount of advertising, but my introduction to google as a business was reading the initial search whitepaper from the 90s. I had assumed they at least had some remnant of "interesting sciency" search based stuff going on. >Well you must have accepted an interview for that kind of team No. My interview was as an infrastructure and internal software engineer. The big thing that hit me was that every single person I talked to emphasized how you could switch projects/teams/orgs every year or so, so they had a wide range of experiences under their belt. Except to the man, every last one was about supporting Google's advertising The only hint that google did something other than advertising on the entire campus was a statue of the Android mascot