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- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50Dual monitors are godly. Give them a try.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Once you go dual... you want trio.
no matter how many monitors you have... its one too few. - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Yea, I doubt you will be working for Google anytime soon.
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It's the author of the blog post here... the photo is taken from Google's press center media room for use in publications like blogs and newspapers:
http://www.google.com/press/images.html
The original Something Awful thread is here by the way -- in theory, the interview is still ongoing:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1892424 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17As noted at the bottom of the writeup, it is "Image courtesy of Google, showing a random Google employee.]"
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Thats a sweet setup in that picture.
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I have no idea who dugg your comment down, but preach on brother. I don't know how I worked without dual mons in the past.
- FrozenOrb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"Zorba says that as a Google employee, his Gmail account has a one-terabyte limit (or rather, non-limit)."
I love this bit. - pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I LOVE the Google Calculator!
I hope they add "unknown support" like X+3 = 9 and then Google replies X=6 - jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Gmail is awesome
Google calendar is awesome
Maps & earth are awesome
calculator is pretty handy sometimes
I don't know which of those are bought, and frankly don't give a *****.
Google puts out some pretty good products. ***** you. - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"Zorba argues you can divide internet traffic into five approximate and unequal segments: porn, spam, corporate, knowledge, and personal."
That's an interesting thought. - scslmd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Recently 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. - DougTanner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm going to end up buying a second monitor at home... once I got dualies at work I can't go back.
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4
Zorba the Hutt. Nice. One of Jabba's relatives from the licensed children's continuation books from the mid-90s... - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6digg++ for the source control system!
I wonder if it is a google made source control or is it a subversion setup? (i say subversion becuase its the best [IMHO] source control system since CVS.)
- bobbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You think that desk is a bit crowded? Check this one out.. http://www.google.com/press/images/gallery/photo7.jpg
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Pretty good benefits and relative lack of bureaucracy. Makes me wonder what Windows would be like if Microsoft was this balanced. *points at the impressive lack of top-heavy ******
- Pilgrim, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7You, are an idiot.
- pbjorge12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3At 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? - sampun00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Photo_gallery_Googleplex_in_Sydney/0,2000061702,39256655-8,00.htm
Everybody loves free drinks. - ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There was a google office in a building I used to work in (Cambridge, MA). Every employee had dual 24" dell monitors. Granted, this particular "office" only had 5 employees, but it still suggest that it may be the norm.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That'd be corporate.
- pbvinge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Really liked the articule, i hope to work for google some time in my life.
- balloot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As a student who is graduating from Stanford with a MS in CS, I know a number of these things to be true. But he's not kidding about the painful application process. This might have worked when the new hires were getting tons of stock options for the public launch, but Google is just another job now, albeit one with great perks. Many of my classmates are not even bothering with Google because the interviews are brutal and endless, and are just going to start-up type companies where the ceiling is higher and you don't have to be treated like crap for a month or two just to get an offer. There is nothing less fun than a hard-core engineering interview where you get interrogated for an hour and a half or whatever.
- benliong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's nice to have a summary of all the things he mentioned in The Aweful Forum. Dugg for the convenience and information.
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4What have you made?
- chris.kelvie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In 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."
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I corrected that bit yesterday and marked the changes.
- deltaechoromeo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I read those when I was 9. Good times. Got me into the longer Star Wars novels, then to Fantasy, and then to the rest of literature. Never underestimate the children's book.
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who would use one-terabyte for just email?
I think (hope) this was a slip that points to the possible future release of a gdrive! - Mikekuul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Definately! At home I use dual monitor, and when I was in college with a single monitor I was dying for someone to just free up a PC so I could move the monitor over and have dual monitor there too. So helpful for work, or even just watching a video full screen while chatting about it on the other.
- SanityInAnarchy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Or a bigger, higher-resolution, widescreen monitor and a decent window manager.
Or virtual desktops.
I guess I just don't like the idea of splitting my workspace in half with a big ugly bar down the middle. - fiftycents, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4i WILL work there someday. thats my dream job
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many 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. - yuckfou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It 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! - davdunc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am really impressed at how frank this appears. if this is a true indicator of how it works, then I am impressed.
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3http://filebox.vt.edu/users/plastk/research/quake3/quake-highres-plastknet.jpg
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4lol he said the internet was in five sections. But you can combine four of them into one. That makes 80% porn.
- leohart, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Exactly. Nothing beats dual or trio monitors when it comes to increase productivity.
(Try coding and looking up at the same time without having to Alt-Tab) - synwolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"They're like Voltron. The more you hook up, the more fun it is!"
-Tucker, Red v. Blue - mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"I can’t confirm that he’s indeed a Google employee, though his answers look credible"
Hard to continue reading the article with this being said. - BeatleBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Out of eight terabits, you only like one of them ?
- balloot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Uhhh...Google gets like a zillion applicants a day who know C++, Java, and Python. Sorry to burst your bubble. And the "they don't look at your degree" stuff is BS. It is damn near impossible to even get an interview unless you have a degree from one of a handful of schools or you are referred. This is done out of necessity as they get way too many resumes to actually look at them all seriously.
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Dual screens are not as good as one might think for FPS, now Triple Screens! thats heaven,
- skyhighrockets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3“[O]ne of my friends said that he was wandering around the office late at night and found Larry and Sergey driving a foot-tall four-wheel-drive RC truck around the office at top speed.
A few days later he ran into them again. They’d chopped the top off and strapped a laptop and a webcam to it.” - IMesh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1When you get dual monitors your productivity gets doubled but when you get 3 it only goes up a little and for me over 3 starts to get unmanagable.
- EpicSA, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Shut up, people like you ruin it for everyone else. Why not go debate whether Genmay or SA is better. That seems like the choice activity for your type.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2What about Commercial and E-Retail?
I figured Corporate to be more like information about a Company, not Commercial and Retailing. - ohhhL3ThaL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Good read. Dumb digg comments by some.
nice find
HEART - stevenb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I do. (know a friend there)
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