My Google Internship
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My Google Internship
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Re: My Google Internship
#2People should write articles instead of "How I loose my account with Google". That would be much more accurate and interesting reading.
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#3I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too.
I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be ambitious enough to become skilled enough) to work at Google et al but it's really fun to sample the experience from the outside. :)
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#4Love how they docked you for Work/Life balance. Grats on the productivity and keep up the building. :)
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#5I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too. I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be ambitious enough to become skilled enough) to work at Google et al but it's really fun to sample the experience from the outside. :)
I really hate reading people believe they aren't skilled enough or won't be good enough to work at Google. When you realize all of the toys are part of an extremely successful strategy to keep you at the office as long as possible, and that Google is a huge company that has to hire thousands of people every year, you realize that this view that Google is "the best place to work" or that everyone who works there is a genius is silly.
While some of the most intelligent people I know work at or have worked at Google at some point, I know just as many Googlers I would describe as incompetent company men incapable of seeing beyond a PR line. Please don't ever get the impression that Googlers are somehow above you, because they're not. They're just people doing jobs.
You probably deserve more credit than you give yourself, and hey, humility is a virtue.
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#6I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too. I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be ambitious enough to become skilled enough) to work at Google et al but it's really fun to sample the experience from the outside. :)
I really hate reading people believe they aren't skilled enough or won't be good enough to work at Google. When you realize all of the toys are part of an extremely successful strategy to keep you at the office as long as possible, and that Google is a huge company that has to hire thousands of people every year, you realize that this view that Google is "the best place to work" or that everyone who works there is a…
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Re: My Google Internship
#7Kind of ridiculous IMO that Google does not extend offers before leaving the internship. In cases like this, it really does not make sense.
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#8I'm curious about the negative on work/life balance. Did they really talk about how to improve it, or was it tongue-in-cheek?
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#9Really well written...an interesting read.
On this though: "On my last day, my team got me some cake and gave me some very sweet farewell gifts, such as the potato below."
What's with the potato? Is that some inside joke at Google?
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#10I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too. I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be ambitious enough to become skilled enough) to work at Google et al but it's really fun to sample the experience from the outside. :)
If you want to work there, then you should just apply. You never know