blog.outer-court.com — Here are the main points from an interview with what seems to be the guy who took over the Google Calculator project as his current 20% project His nickame is “ZorbaTHut” and he’s been programming for 17 years.
Jun 15, 2006 View in Crawl 4
riceJun 15, 2006
That'd be corporate.
magadassJun 15, 2006
I think Google Calculator is the gayest stupidest piece of crap idea I have ever heard of and I hope it bombs like hell! I use google for searching but the rest of their trash that they develop is very lackluster! Before you comment with one of their products make sure its not one they bought and then rebranded!
pbjorge12Jun 15, 2006
At first I thought that was what traffic was going into google and to their employees...And I was like - They allow porn in the workplace?
yuckfouJun 16, 2006
It is too bad more businesses don't treat employees in that manner. Give "reasonable" deadlines, hold employees to them, don't micro-manage and allow some freedom to actually innovate. I recently saw a video tour of Google offices and was surprised by the atmosphere. Free food at work was a cool perk. It's great to see laid back employees that actually produce. I prefer a jovial workplace rather than having a bureacrat watching over my shoulder. Most adults can work unsupervised and still contribute greatly, the ones who can't should go home.Good article and good subject. Definitely an interesting read. Thanks msaleem!
scslmdJun 16, 2006
Recently had a friend who went to Google to do a photo shoot of the Google management. He said that there is really awesome food court and it contained EVERY POSSIBLE FLAVOR of soda that you can think of - if it exists, they have it ... and it's all FREE! Food is awesome too. They have some really fancy food and not reheated burgers or stuff like that... unless that's exactly what you want.Cool Perks.
chris_kelvieJun 16, 2006
In response to the Digg submitter, and I quote ZorbaTHut, "Still wish you would've asked, dude. Plus some of the quotes you've got up there are kind of misleading, like the internet-split-into-five-categories thing. Yeah, you can split it into those categories, but you can also split it into the categories of "all webpages with e" and "all webpages without e" - I was just using that to describe something else. And it was searches - not websites - which makes it sound pretty substantially different."
saskaJun 16, 2006
Many things in that article read a lot like life at Microsoft.Other things in that article read a lot like the days I spent in small Silicon Valley start-ups pre-bust, in which every idea got a budget.