Working at Google would seem a career made in heaven for some. Terry Lambert, a former senior software engineer at Google, dished out in a Quora article about the high and lows in working for the search giant
Late last week, a Quora user posed a question what teams are considered "elite" at Google or in other words, which teams are considered the smartest, or work on the most difficult tasks.
"Anything to do with Google X. That's where people want to go, to work on cool stuff that could have a big impact on the future. If you want to work on space elevators -- this is where you work. Anything to do with Google ATAP (Advanced Technologies and Projects). It's basically a privatized "says Lambert. "Also, The Google Streetview technology; it's deployed, used, has lots of interesting image processing challenged, and you get to do things like run robots around the Louvre, capturing absurdly detailed images of masterpiece artwork."
Lambert says that "the majority of what people do" at Google falls in the middle of the bell curve, which he considers to be middle of the road jobs that are "never going to go anywhere." This includes Google's open source projects and the sadly discontinued Google Reader.
Lambert considers to be the most "unsexy" at Google are AdWords, Search and Search Quality Teams.
"So it's kind of an axis, where you have the really smart people who get lucky on one end, "he added. Nearly everyone else in the middle, and the really smart people with obsessive compulsive disorder (even if it's only a professional affectation) on the other end."
The same website had also asked employees to share out the dirt in working at Google. Turns out that working at Google isn't all fun and carnival rides.
Main complaints about working in google is the company only cares about measurable improvements., lack of work/life balance, projects can get canceled arbitrarily all the time and managers who have been over-promoted.
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