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"Most Googlers will tell you.." "I remember asking my interviewer" "My phone screener, when I asked him..." Your examples are all things that were promised dur

by gcp 15y ago

"Most Googlers will tell you.." "I remember asking my interviewer" "My phone screener, when I asked him..." Your examples are all things that were promised during the hiring process, not your own experience. This raises a red flag for me.

pyre 15y ago
Maybe none of the stuff that he/she does sounds as cool as just grabbing a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce... just for kicks. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects.
- nostrademons 15y ago
  FWIW, I regularly grab a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce over all of Google's copy of the web. This is not a one-off occurrence, it is (for me, someone whose "official" job duties usually focus on UI) a roughly once-a-month occurrence. It can be as much as several times a day for people whose daily job is crunching data. I also work on a team where I am the only one without an advanced degree, and all but two of the others' have Ph.Ds. Two of my teammates graduated college at 20. Many of them have published. And I get to push cool things out to the results page with fairly little bureaucracy. Sometimes I even get to do it in response to HN users' comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364339 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364339 The thing is, if I'd just said "I get to do this, and I get to do that", this comment would've read "Yes, but I doubt you're a typical Googler. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects." Damned if you do, damned if you don't. (Truth be told, not everyone at Google is running interesting-sounding side projects. The point is that everyone at Google has the ability to run interesting-sounding side projects. Whether you make the time to do it is up to you.)

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"Most Googlers will tell you.." "I remember asking my interviewer" "My phone screener, when I asked him..." Your examples are all things that were promised dur

by gcp 15y ago

pyre 15y ago
Maybe none of the stuff that he/she does sounds as cool as just grabbing a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce... just for kicks. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects.
- nostrademons 15y ago
  FWIW, I regularly grab a couple thousand machines to run some MapReduce over all of Google's copy of the web. This is not a one-off occurrence, it is (for me, someone whose "official" job duties usually focus on UI) a roughly once-a-month occurrence. It can be as much as several times a day for people whose daily job is crunching data. I also work on a team where I am the only one without an advanced degree, and all but two of the others' have Ph.Ds. Two of my teammates graduated college at 20. Many of them have published. And I get to push cool things out to the results page with fairly little bureaucracy. Sometimes I even get to do it in response to HN users' comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364339 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364339 The thing is, if I'd just said "I get to do this, and I get to do that", this comment would've read "Yes, but I doubt you're a typical Googler. I doubt that everyone at Google is always running interesting-sounding side projects." Damned if you do, damned if you don't. (Truth be told, not everyone at Google is running interesting-sounding side projects. The point is that everyone at Google has the ability to run interesting-sounding side projects. Whether you make the time to do it is up to you.)