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 ...
Google by design
Since Larry Page took over as CEO in 2011, we've been more focused than ever on improving the user experience across all of our products. Learn how our design teams worked together to engineer a creative revolution in this story from The Verge.
Googlers at Google I/O
How do you define a word like "Googley"? Hear the answer directly from Googlers at Google I/O, our annual two-day conference which brings together thousands of developers from all over the world to brainstorm the technology of tomorrow, and also one of our "Googliest" events.
S.O.S.: When disaster strikes, Raquel and Crisis Response answer the call
When disaster strikes, Software Engineer Raquel Romano and the Google Crisis Response team spring into action. They use the same Google infrastructure and technology behind ...
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 ...
Women in leadership at Google
As Eileen Naughton put it, she didn’t want to miss this party. Women at Google lead major portions of the business, growing their careers and ...
Women in leadership at Google
As Eileen Naughton put it, she didn’t want to miss this party. Women at Google lead major portions of the business, growing their careers and ...
Designing for simplicity: How Noah improved Google Search for iOS
After just three months at Google, Interaction Designer Noah Levin took the lead in changing the way our users interact with Google Search on the ...
Going green for good
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 ...
Google's switch to the next wave of networking
Urs Hölzle details our adoption of new, open-source infrastructure technology, OpenFlow in this article from Wired. Not only is the shift the largest infrastructure change ...
Google’s Hamina Data Center
Thinking outside the box helped our infrastructure teams turn an 1950s paper mill into a high-efficiency data center cooled with seawater from Finland Bay. Check ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Site reliability engineers: the "world's most intense pit crew"
Site reliability engineer (SRE) Andrew Widdowson likens Google to a race car going 100mph - and the SRE team is its pit crew, changing the ...
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 ...
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 Sydney - Alan: Site Director
Why should an engineer work for Google in our Sydney office? You get to do cool things that matter, make an impact and find technical ...
Alan Eustace on innovation behind the scenes
Alan Eustace shares how some of the biggest innovations at Google happen behind the scenes. Ultimately, these influence the products and services that millions of ...
Working at Google Mountain View - Oleg: Engineer
Just eight months after joining Google, Oleg got the opportunity to lead a team in developing internal tools for our sales teams. He shares his ...
Working at Google Sydney - Alan: Site Director
Why should an engineer work for Google in our Sydney office? You get to do cool things that matter, make an impact and find technical ...
Alan Eustace on innovation behind the scenes
Alan Eustace shares how some of the biggest innovations at Google happen behind the scenes. Ultimately, these influence the products and services that millions of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Working at Google London - Tim, Software Engineer
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. ...
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 ...