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I'm curious on the back story of how you got dragged into working for Google

• jyu 12y ago
  He used to keep a blog on what it's like to work at Google from 2005-2007. In lieu of his response, it might suffice. The archive is available below: http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/xooglers-rises-from-ashes.html http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/xooglers-rises-from-ashes... http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html
  • hashtag 12y ago
    Thanks. I wish there was a way to remove the comments and just straight read the story
    • lisper 12y ago
      Try searching for the string "posted by"
    • grmarcil 12y ago
      On http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html, from the console var jq = document.createElement('script'); jq.src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(jq); fromP = jQuery('span').filter(function() { return jQuery(this).text().match(/said\.\.\./); }).closest("p"); commentP = fromP.next("p"); timeP = commentP.next("p"); fromP.remove(); commentP.remove(); timeP.remove(); I haven't QA'ed this beyond a quick eyeball of the results. Obviously it could delete a lot of stuff unintentionally if comments further down the page are of a different format, but the html converted word doc doesn't give you a whole lot to work with.
• lisper 12y ago
  I initially turned down their offer (I had a cushy gig at JPL) but Urs Hoelzle just kept pushing me to change my mind, so finally I said, OK, I'll do it for a year. How bad could it be? (Turns out it was pretty bad, but it worked out OK :-)