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Diary of a Summer Intern - Pablo
August 13, 2012
Like most good things in life, my internship is
coming to an end
-- eleven weeks that have passed by so fast that I finally couldn’t do some things that I mentioned in the
previous post
. I didn’t have time for the bowling game, but I leave so many friends here at Google that I’m sure I’ll come back to play with them!
To wrap up my internship I had a chance to present the outcomes of my projects three times: once to my team (and some other folks from other teams that wanted to join), once to the other marketing interns, and once to the director of my group. In all of those presentations I felt like people really cared about my job. Being an ex-consultant I can tell you this is not always the case outside Google. And that’s one of the things that I liked the most from my time here.
As I said in previous posts, you have amazing perks at Google and you work on real challenging problems, but there are other things that also make Google a unique place to work and that are harder to find at other places. Let me share with you the two that I found to be the most compelling of all.
First is how candid and open Google’s culture is. I would have never imagined that the senior management of a company with more than 30,000 employees worldwide would take the time, every single week, to talk all employees about what’s going on in the company. New products, industry news, whatever it is, every Friday afternoon senior members of the company would talk about it openly and would take any questions from Googlers in the audience and worldwide. Their answers are authentic, not cliche or pre-recorded. Listening to
Eric Schmidt
,
Larry Page
,
Sergey Brin
,
Nikesh Arora
,
Vic Gundotra
, and other top executives, standing just 10 meters from you, talk about hot new products and industry updates is unbelievable.
The second thing I want to mention is the Googlers themselves. I have worked with some of the most brilliant people I’ve met in my life and yet they were always humble and open to opinions and suggestions from someone like me, who had been in the team just for a few weeks. It is truly amazing how everybody’s opinion is not only respected but taken into serious consideration. This encourages everybody to throw ideas to the table no matter how long you’ve been with the company or how crazy the idea is. It is fantastic.
I’m sad to leave, but school starts soon. As I pack my things all I can do is thank the Googlers for an amazing summer.
Pablo
Fun Google Fact:
If you like Google’s Doodles as much as I do (a lot) you might find interesting that the
very first Doodle
(this one) was designed as a kind of “Out-Of-Office” message. In 1998 Sergey and Larry took the weekend off to go the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The Doodle was designed to let their users know they were out of office and couldn’t fix technical issues like a server crash while they were gone.
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Pablo
July 30, 2012
Hello, hello (Hola!)
I’m not at a place called Vertigo but there is so much going on at Google that it is easy to feel dizzy.
This morning, my host (the manager at Google I’m working with) and I were counting the weeks that I have left before the end of my internship and we realized that in two weeks I’ll be done. What that means is that I’ve been at Google for nine weeks. Nine weeks that have passed by so fast that I feel like I won’t have enough time to finish all the things I need to finish and enjoy all the things that I wanted to enjoy at Google before the end of the internship. And I’ve enjoyed quite a few already.
From playing in one of the soccer leagues that are organized at Google (in a full-size natural grass field), to playing laser-tag, participating in a sushi contest, listening to very interesting and candid Googlers speak just to a small group of graduate interns (speakers included Bill Maris, Google Ventures Managing Partner, and Kristen Gil, VP of Business Operations), attending
Google I/O
(don’t miss the
Project Glass demo
!), listening to Larry and Sergey at
TGIF
... the list is neverending.
And I have many other things left for the last two weeks: a wine tasting trip, playing with fellow interns a bowling game in Google’s alley (yes, there is a bowling alley in Google’s HQ!), going to a Giants game this Saturday with other interns, meeting with even more Googlers to learn about what they do and how they contribute to improving the world through tech...
I don’t think I’m going to have time for everything. And that’s a great sign.
Sometimes it feels that Googlers get paid to have fun. And, although it’s not
exactly
like that, there’s a lot of truth in it. Googlers are brilliant people who work hard to have a big impact in the company and in society. And they are lucky to do it in a company that deeply cares about their people. Working hard on something you enjoy while being taken care of is the perfect mix. And Googlers have it. And Google is better off with happy brilliant Googlers. It’s clearly a win-win.
- Pablo
Fun Google Fact:
Google said in its S-1 form that it hoped to raise $2,718,281,828 in the IPO in August 2004. The number seems random but there are few things that are random at Google. 2,718,281,828 are the first 10 digits of the
e constant
. A bit geeky, I know. But we engineers like these things. Sorry about that! :)
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Pablo
July 3, 2012
Hola a todos!
Wow! It has been only 5 weeks since my internship started and Google already feels like home (and that’s not easy considering that
my hometown
is 6,000 miles away!).
I moved with my wife and son (
see picture here
- he is the cute one!) to the Bay Area because I wanted to learn all I could about business management and apply what I learn in a cool tech company that improves the world. The math was simple for me: business management + tech companies = Bay Area. This is how I became part of the class of 2013 of the MBA at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. When it came down to looking for a summer internship, I asked myself: what cool tech companies do I know that are improving the world? Obviously, Google was at the top of that list.
I am now a Product Marketing Manager (PMM) MBA Intern at Google’s mobile ads team. Being surrounded by such a talented group of people with a lot of experience in something relatively new as mobile ads has been an intense and rewarding experience so far. I am learning every day about an area that is critical, and will be even more, for the entire internet space: mobile advertising. With millions of people accessing the internet from mobile devices as their primary point of access, mobile ads become more and more relevant every day. How can Google improve user’s experience in mobile? How can Google serve the most relevant information and ads to our users? What should be the value proposition for all our stakeholders (advertisers, publishers, app developers, and users)?
During the summer I am getting to dig deep into these and other questions in the mobile space. From brainstorming how Google can improve its local-mobile ads offering to defining and measuring the metrics that are relevant to understand whether
our efforts to improve mobile internet
are being successful. So much to do in so little time!
But there is much more than work at Google. I’m running out of space in this post but I will talk about everything non-work related in following posts. There is so much to talk about... I could write an entire blog about it myself! Stay tuned to learn about some of the best perks and activities you can find in a company!
Hasta la próxima
!
Fun Google Fact:
There are 26 (26!!) different cafes in Google’s HQ in Mountain View and each of them serves different food. Some interns are on the quest of trying them all for breakfast, lunch, and dinner before the end of their summer internship! Any doubt why the famous
Google 15
is a real thing?
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
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