Tim talks about how the small team sizes at Google helped him execute quickly and make critical changes in direction as demanded by the project. We keep teams small to help ensure everybody can make an impact, and to ensure we stay agile.
Meet Reto Strobl, an engineering manager at Google Zurich
We sat down with Reto Strobl, an engineering manager at Google Zurich, about how he fell in love with computer science, why he likes being ...
Meet Andrew Swerdlow, a privacy analysis engineer
Which is tougher: innovating on the bleeding edge of privacy technology or summiting the highest peak in the United States? We sat down with the ...
We want people to feel good about using Google products. One way we try to do that is by making environmentally-responsible choices in all aspect ...
Why I'm leaving Harvard
When he left academia to join Google full time, Matt Welsh explained that the allure was the scope and impact of the work he could ...
A chat with Google’s Seattle video-chat guru
Engineering director Chee Chew and his team in Kirkland, Washington were trying to better connect with their teammates in Stockholm, Sweden. So they built an ...
Google: Scale changes everything
Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful - and the enormous engineering challenges that ...
The front lines: Yvette and Sean on fighting the war on bugs
People depend on Google Maps every day to get them where they need to go. One wrong turn could leave our users lost and frustrated. ...
Whoa, Google has designers
Googler Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer, gave this presentation on our visual refresh during UX Week 2011. Jon dishes the details on how we approach ...
Search engineering at Google
Hear from the engineers that work on the product that’s been there since our beginning: Google search. They share why they’re excited to come to ...
Google's Thomas Williams finds creativity in computers
Engineering director Thomas Williams encourages Googlers to "build their own treadmills," giving them freedom to set their own objectives, find creative solutions and even hit ...
The Google Gospel of Speed
"Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature." So says Urs Hoelzle, head of our infrastructure team. Urs shares how milliseconds mega-matter for everything from ...
Working at Google Mountain View - Raman: Research Scientist
"Building things at Google is fun," Raman explains. That’s because when you create something in Google’s labs, it doesn’t just stay a "research toy." Raman ...
Alan Eustace on Google’s engineering culture
Engineers that join Google have an incredible foundation to build upon. Alan Eustace shares how our massive user base and infrastructure allows small engineering teams ...
Alan Eustace on taking it all in
Alan Eustace describes how Google is modeled after universities to create an environment built on curiosity, research and innovation. This commitment, coupled with tremendous existing ...
Google web grows in city
"Many of the most talented and creative engineers and scientists in our field of computer science want to be here," says Alfred Spector in this ...
