Top Google Secrets Discovered at Google NYC
Posted by jonathan at 8:03am EST on 08/08/2007
While visiting Google NYC yesterday, I looked around at all their top secret white-boards and all their mind mapping ideas that have been floating around at Google NYC.
My gracious host, Bharat, was great to me in showing me around — being the Google office noob, being in love with the Google office ‘n all. It was also great to meet Beckett. Both Bharat and Beckett are from the Gallery project; founded by Bharat himself.
But really, all I got to see was how cool Google Earth really is and that Google spares no expense to be a professionally creative company. Professionally creative company? Yes, projects with random words describing I-don’t-know-what, historic computers on pedestal ranging back from the Apple II-E’s all the way back to much older, Texas Instrument-powered computers.
What I really saw at Google, though, were some amazing things. Here is a small list of some of the things I saw…
- ginormous 31″ monitors / massive dual 24″ monitors
- more food than I could ever imagine eating in an entire year — especially prepared everyday!
- an amazing welcome center for visiting guests (that was me!)
- security guards at just about every corner of the building (I was on the 4th and 8th floor)
- really cool looking interview rooms and video conferencing rooms
Free food everyday, a great place to just have fun and get work done, and a really comfortable atmosphere. So much to do all the time with the foosball table (Bharat annihilated me, he’s been practicing for their ladder tournament going on!), and just so much more to do than I’ve ever seen in any office I’ve ever been to.
A fun kids area is quite attractive for parents, a special part of the floor just for legos, and so, so much more. There’s still a lot I can’t write about because of their non-disclosure that they have you sign when first coming to Google.
