Bright Minds, Bureaucratic Walls
Bright Minds, Bureaucratic Walls
Very bright people to talk to, flexible work hours, friendly teams, reimbursement for everything, good quality code, and lots of projects to match you with. Awesome food.
This is a big company, and access to information is sometimes restricted. Also, academia is more interesting to me than projects at Google. Even if you do research, it is not the same kind of research as at university – it always is very close to practical uses.
Quite often you tell your interns how awesome Google is and how proud they should be to be your employee. I think sometimes it should be the opposite: you should appreciate that someone chose Google over more interesting but financially inferior academic work.
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