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Google also has an AI research center based in Beijing that hires Chinese employees. https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/google-opening-an-office-focused-on-arti

• seanmcdirmid 8y ago
  If it’s anything like their old Wudaokou office, there is a huge firewall between the work done in that office and the others.
  • nostrademons 8y ago
    Yeah, when I was there the China office largely worked on products for the Chinese market, and they lacked access to many things that Googlers in the rest of the world took for granted (like full access to the monorepo). It was more that some executive would throw a project over the wall to Beijing, a team there would work on it, most of the time the results of that work would stay in China (and be directly applicable to google.cn), but occasionally the exec would bring the tech back for U.S. engineers to work on. I had regular contact with engineers in Zurich, Ireland, South Korea, Brazil, Israel, and Australia while I was there, but the only direct contact I had with the Beijing office was through a Mountain View expat (ethnically Croatian) who was leading a team there.
  • azurezyq 8y ago
    I worked in Wudaokou office before (after Google-xit). Basically access to user information (logs) would be limited from there. However you'll have no problem working on systems which not touching users directly (infrastructure / doc link analysis) etc. Access to most of the monorepo's fine. Project stability was a problem but that exists in all small remote offices which is far away from mountain view.