I just spent 2 very warm weeks in Mountain View, CA as part of my orientation at Google. Unfortunately it’s time to go back to the -18C temperatures of Canadia. A bunch of people keep asking me how it was, so here’s the lowdown:
- Awesome food (I made a counscious effort to gain 5 pounds in 2 weeks, lets see how it worked out)
- Sweet weather (yeah I just have to say it again to rub it in)
- Went on a 3-day trip to Vegas (we can call this my starting work bonus vacation)
- I’m going to be working in the AdSense group (that’s where Google supplies ads for third-party sites and both Google and the publisher site make money from the clicks)
- I don’t really yet know what I’m going to be working on, but even if I knew it’s possible I’d have to kill you if I told you
- Orientation wasn’t super-useful because I’ve seen about 60% of it before – the other 40% was actually pretty awesome
- Hanging with people I haven’t seen for 8 months was a lot of fun
- I’m going to be working mostly in C++ so I spent a bunch of time in the past week cramming up on C++
- Google rocks
- This is all