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Google was founded 25 years ago today

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Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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Not at Google. The food is there because they have to spend all their money on something, or risk being singled out as a monopoly. That sounds conspiratorial, but it's really the only thing that makes sense to me.

How does spending money on whatever have anything to do with monopoly?

Reduces profit margins

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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Not at Google. The food is there because they have to spend all their money on something, or risk being singled out as a monopoly. That sounds conspiratorial, but it's really the only thing that makes sense to me.

I suggest doing some math. Just back of the napkin.

On what?

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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So they registered the domain close to a year before incorporation: dana@thalos:~$ whois google.com|grep ^Creat Creation Date: 1997-09-15T07:00:00+0000 dana@thalos:~$ That seems fast to me.

I don't know...don't you always purchase domains for your personal projects as soon as you get excited about them and devise a name--and then sit (or build) on them for months before actually having something to launch?

I know I do, haha! :)

Good find tho!

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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Yes, no. They are also a major proponent of open office space, and (at least the group that I worked for was) very intolerant of remote work pre-pandemic. It was very grating to see all these showy spaces (cafes, gyms, theaters, climbing walls, ball pits etc) that were featured in the REWS (Google Real Estate and Workplace Services) newsletters, with absolutely no focus on the overcrowded open office spaces that engi…

Yep. In fairness the offices generally have many quiet spaces to escape to, if you are ok working on a laptop.

How senior do you have to be generally to get your own bonafide private office?

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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It certainly doesn't seem that way now, unless there is a massive skew in titles (maybe an L4 at Google is given Senior Engineer 2 at MSFT or something?)

A L5 at Google typically makes more than all principal engineers at Microsoft (levels 65-67)

Lol that explains my interview with them.

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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So they registered the domain close to a year before incorporation: dana@thalos:~$ whois google.com|grep ^Creat Creation Date: 1997-09-15T07:00:00+0000 dana@thalos:~$ That seems fast to me.

I don't know...don't you always purchase domains for your personal projects as soon as you get excited about them and devise a name--and then sit (or build) on them for months before actually having something to launch? I know I do, haha! :) Good find tho!

Well I got one of my domains almost 28 years ago and I still haven't done much useful with it. (:

    dana@eighteendotfour:~$ whois realms.org|grep ^Cre
    Creation Date: 1995-10-17T04:00:00Z
    dana@eighteendotfour:~$

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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I don't know...don't you always purchase domains for your personal projects as soon as you get excited about them and devise a name--and then sit (or build) on them for months before actually having something to launch? I know I do, haha! :) Good find tho!

Well I got one of my domains almost 28 years ago and I still haven't done much useful with it. (: dana@eighteendotfour:~$ whois realms.org|grep ^Cre Creation Date: 1995-10-17T04:00:00Z dana@eighteendotfour:~$

But the potential… Palpable!

Re: Google was founded 25 years ago today

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Yep. In fairness the offices generally have many quiet spaces to escape to, if you are ok working on a laptop.

How senior do you have to be generally to get your own bonafide private office?

I don't think I ever saw one. The director of the product I worked on (comprising a few hundred people spread across a few offices and countries) sat a few "pods" over from me for awhile. He did have priority use of a 1:1 meeting room though.
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