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Departing Googler: Perks are nice, but I was bored and not getting rich
Nicholas Carlson · 04/15/08 11:00AMAn anonymous software engineer who says he used to work on AdWords, Google's lucrative if straightforward ad-selling system, has written a blog post explaining why he's leaving the search giant. Unfortunately, his tenure at Google did not include a tutorial on the use of the "Return" key, and most of his post is one long paragraph reaching 1,422 words. Here's the 100-word version on why he split for a social-networking startup.
Google chefs have the best jobs in the business, if not in the company
Jordan Golson · 04/10/08 09:00PMGoogle chef Eric Dela Cruz works Monday through Friday — an unusual schedule for a master of the culinary arts, most of whom never have a weekend free. From this interview he gave to food blog YumSugar, it sounds like he has the best job in the industry: low-pressure, big budget and, as long as the food is good, positive feedback from everyone he runs into.
4 reasons why DoubleClickers should ditch Google
Nicholas Carlson · 03/31/08 08:00AMToogle many Googlers? Not if you scream for ice cream
Nicholas Carlson · 03/27/08 11:40AMThink Google's mostly mythological 20 percent rule is an over-indulgence? Try mint vanilla and cayenne chocolate ice cream. Because Charles Siegel's unlimited chocolates in the cafeteria aren't enough, the above-pictured Google engineer used her extra time to create the new ice cream flavors for her co-workers. Sounds tasty, but will such confections survive the advent of the piggish DoubleClickers?
Googlers: Dear DoubleClickers, stop eating our food you pigs
Nicholas Carlson · 03/26/08 03:00PMWhite Google executive fibs to Congress about black employee count
Owen Thomas · 03/26/08 01:20PMIt's no secret Google has painfully few black employees. Why lie about it? Laszlo Bock, Google's exceedingly Caucasian vice president of people operations, assured members of Congress last June that Google, which was lobbying for more H1-B visas for immigrant workers, had plenty of black employees. "We have a very strong internal Black Googler Network," he said. "We actually view it as our obligation to reach out to underrepresented communities in our industry, particularly women in engineering, particularly African-Americans. "How many [of Google's employees] are African-American?" asked Representative Maxine Waters.
Work's fine, but Googlers In Zurich prefer going down the slide
Nicholas Carlson · 03/24/08 06:20PMGoogle's Zurich office weirder than we thought
Nicholas Carlson · 03/11/08 07:00PM"Strictly platonic": Help this cute Asian girl tour the NYC Googleplex!
Jordan Golson · 03/07/08 02:40PMUnion organizers protest Google's vaporware hotel
Nicholas Carlson · 02/11/08 07:40PMGoogle's new Swiss digs
Nicholas Carlson · 01/24/08 10:00AMGoogle censors Hitler mention
Owen Thomas · 12/28/07 04:00PMBored in the Valley? Go visit Google!
Owen Thomas · 12/26/07 06:00PMThis just in from the tips jar: Reader Karen Waksman, visiting from Florida, asks for pointers on visitng Google's Mountain View headquarters. I've been to the Googleplex often enough, but never thought of it as a tourist attraction. Waksman is hardly alone, though. "Hugo" on Hereorthere.com got a tour.
Hitler chat a perk of working at Google
Mary Jane Irwin · 12/26/07 01:40PMThere must be something in the air — perhaps all this Yuletide spirit — that unearths fresh adoration of little baby Hitler. Will Smith had a run-in with the Jewish Defense League over his comments about Hitler's basic goodness. That in turn raised the Internet's Führer radar, uncovering one of the overlooked perks of working for Google: unlimited Hitler talk!
Sergey Brin unknown even in the Googleplex
Owen Thomas · 12/21/07 04:10PMGoogle replacing ski mountain with Space Mountain?
Megan McCarthy · 12/14/07 03:58PMGoogleplex events
Megan McCarthy · 12/12/07 05:00PMYour plans tonight: Talk money, social graphs, or Belgian beers. Or, crash a press-only bash at the Googleplex. All in tonight's Valleywag Calendar.
Google's holiday party
Owen Thomas · 11/09/07 10:29AMDid you get your pass to the Google Holiday Party? We understand. Email can be so unreliable. A helpful tipster saved us the trouble of digging through our Gmail spam filter to find our invitation. Don't know if we'll crash the December 12 event at the Googleplex. If it's like past parties, expect a room full of tiresomely cheery Google flacks and a drive-by appearance by Larry and Sergey. If you do get any founder face time, watch out: They'll likely bore you to tears with an explanation of why they call Web applets "gadgets" instead of "widgets." Not that you could use any of that conversation anyway, since the event is "off the record." Still want to go? After the jump, the full detail of the exclusive holiday soiree.
Aging crooner hits the Googleplex
Owen Thomas · 11/05/07 07:51PMSo this old guy brought his familiar patter to Google's Mountain View headquarters today — oh, and Tony Bennett was there, too. Bennett is just one in a series of musical entertainers brought to the Googleplex, which is a heck of a perk. It's like a free trip to Vegas without having to leave your office. No word on the set list Bennett performed. But given the proclivities of Burning Man attendee and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, might we suggest "Anything Goes"?