Archives Tag: Life at Google

Life at Google Friday: Working at Google in San Francisco

Today, we get to hear from a number of people in the San Francisco office. They talk about what the culture is like at Google. One woman explains why she even gets up in the morning to come to work everyday. What it comes down to is the creativity, the aspiration, and drive, and the [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Philip in Sales

Today’s edition of Life at Google Friday is brought to us by Philip, a senior sales rep for Google down south. In just 66 seconds, he shares how his global exposure has helped him and his team satisfy another client by localizing the company’s global strategy. Incoming search terms:sales life at google

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Life at Google Friday: Working at YouTube

Today’s dose of Life at Google comes from YouTubers. Youtube was acquired in October 2006, but YouTube still acts like its own entity. Despite being part of a larger company, YouTube still has its own design team, its own engineering team, its own product team, even its own building. But the in the larger picture, [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Bryan About the BGN

Here’s something I never knew about Google. Within Google exists a network called the Black Googler Network. But, if you think about, Google is such a large organization, it shouldn’t be uncommon to have these kinds of sub-cultures within the Google culture. Here is Bryan talking about his experience with the BGN [Black Googler Network]. [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Lisa the Intern

Lisa, an intern at Google, talks about how working as an intern actually happens at Google. Something I take away from this short clip is that even the interns have “freedom” to do the things they need and want to do. Incoming search terms:Lisa the intern

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Life at Google Friday: Joshua, Flash Designer

Today, Life at Google is brought to us by Joshua. It didn’t specifically state where he is hailing from, but based on the jobs available as a flash designer for YouTube, I can only assume he is hailing from San Bruno, CA. Joshua dives into how he feels that he is a better flash designer [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Aseem in Mountain View

Today, Aseem brings us our weekly dose of Life at Google. Coming directly from Google’s HQ, in Mountain View, CA. His role as Associate Product Manager is integral for the success of Google. The role facilitates new products and product development. This is a great starter role for recent grads and entrepreneurial-focused people. Direct link: [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Alice in Sydney

Today, Alice brings us the weekly dose of Life at Google. Hailing from Sydney, she talks to us about how easy it is to stay current with hardware. Having the proper hardware to run your development environment is a key part of the process. At Google, Alice explains how easy it is to just stop [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Lisa in New York City

Today, Lisa brings us her side of the story with Life at Google. Lisa works out of Google’s New York City office. Which, by the way, is an amazing office. Lisa talks about talks about how “no two employees have the same background.” This is so much more true than you could ever imagine. This [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Christian in Zurich

Today, Life at Google is brought to us by Christian based out of the Google offices in Zurich. His Life at Google story talks about being involved with multiple team members from various ethnic backgrounds. One of his team members on a specific project had dual citizenship, which simply shows the diversity alone within the [...]

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Life at Google Friday: Amanda in Seattle

Today, Amanda Camp is bringing us a Life at Google video about what life is like at Google. Amanda is a software engineer at Google’s office in Seattle, WA. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfJPs6JbI7I Incoming search terms:amanda camp seattle googleLife at Google Seattle

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