Google war stories

[vango]

... so I am visiting a couple of good friends at Google. Sampling the food, so to say. We are trying to select a least crowded table in their mecca-of-a-cafeteria. Finally we end up at a table with five other people, when I notice that one of them is Udi_Manber, who until recently was a CEO of Amazon's A9 before being hired by Google a couple of

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[uzheletta]

1. Chto zhe ty tam delal (if not to get hired?)

2. off: help me with mp3files plz? gde oni berutsya. hochu horoshuju
kollekciju horoshej muzyki v poka ne kuplennom i-pod :)

[evemaru]

женька,
1) вариант 1: скачать с другого айпода, если таковой есть, нужно спец. софт, то есть загрузить чьюто чужую коллекцию.
2) вариант 2, скопировать CD в ITunes. Дальше с ITunes уже на IPod.
- то есть твоя коллекция должна быть в компе. а дальше ты уже синхронизируешь с айподом.
3) если хочешь надыбать музыки в инете, то надо идти в newsgroups или еще кудато, и искать...

[vango]

1. Ya zhe govoru - xodil kushat' k druzyam :)

2. vozmi CD diski kootriye ya tebe privez v Boston - tam kucha xoroshey muziki (gdeto 2GB) xvatit' na 1/3 mini/nano-IPod capacity. Vsya muzika tam v mp3. Get ITunes and drag and drop :) I can also put something up for you on a private address if you want, but tell me what kind of music you want.

[evemaru]

Прикольная история. А мне кажется как раз шансы быть hired от подобной истории вовсе не уменьшились.
Не поленилась, и пошла посмотреть на фотографию Larry.
Что нам журналы, мы их не читаем... хорошее лицо у человека, доброе.
Неужели в долине все друг друга знают?
А сколько русских работает в Гугле, и трудно ли туда попасть?
Я гдеьто читала про то, как они проводят интервью. Сурово!
but they are the best !

[vango]

The valley is indeed small. Every time I go to an intrview there is always someone there who knew someone who worked with me in a previous company. Russian tech. community is even tighter here. One or two degrees of separation is pretty much guaranteed.

In terms of the number of russians at Google, I would guess 200-300 not counting their new Moscow office they are opening up right now. The interview process is very rigorous, and is different in a certain way. They first hire you, and then tell you what you will do. Pretty much managers get their picks from new hires, sort of like NBA drafts :)

[ex_juan_gan]

That's the biggest problem here, in this village called Silicon Valley. I guess it is much better if no Russians know anything about you... and vice versa. At least you do not hear dumb rumors about yourself.

[vango]

Depends on the objective. Potentially I could have shared with him some of the world domination schemes I have in mind, but lack operational funds and infrastructure to implement :) But the biggest danger is of course saying one of the top 10 things he hears from random people everyday, which might be either no-content compliments or things that are interesting for you to find out, but not interesting for him to explain to everyone.

[alamoana]

I had much more embarassing incident whis the director of my institute just when I came ;-))).

[vango]

I think this is as good of the time to share as any :). We will keep it between friends here...

[uzheletta]

Ilusha,
i'll be in SF next Monday.
(conference).
i'll have monday night to myself.
is there any chance to see you?

[vango]

of course. poslal tebe email. poishi mne na gmail account

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