Name: Real Talk with Google Software Engineer
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T16:49:35.000Z
Duration: 18 min 33 s
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So ever since I started this channel, I've gotten a lot of questions about working a cool, like, What's he like to work there?

But I realized that if I were to talk about it from my own experience, it would be a little bit outdated because I was only there upon deal about two years ago.

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So he said, I decided to interview a friend of mine Jane knew, who is currently a software engineer.

In this interview, we talked about things like, What's he like to work there?

Her advice on getting a job at companies like Google on her experience of being a female softer engineer in this male dominated industry?

Um, let's just get started with, you know, a basic question.

So just cause you're engineers yourself for us, Yeah.

I'm Jay and I must offer engineer a Google in the Waterloo Kitchener office.

Um, I'm gonna go for a year now, and I'm on the cloud health care team.

Um, so let's get study with your education.

So I understand that you were in the engineering science program at the University of Toronto, not computer size, but eventually you got into Cody.

So, um, so I guess I'll talk a little bit about war engineering.

So this program is kind of like they want to give you two years of foundational studies in all sorts of engineering, all different disciplines.

And after two years, you can pick which option you want to go into.

So essentially, you can pick electrical, computer engineering, animal space, civil engineering and stuff like that.

And for me, after first year, I wasn't completely sure which option I want to pick after two years.

But I was kind of narrowing down towards electrical computer engineering, and I wanted to see if I could get an internship just to see how it's actually like working as a software engineer and see you've actually like it.

I want to pursue it for the rest of my studies.

I was also thinking about moving to California for a little bit.

So that's when I started to look at software internship opening in California.

It just so happened that someone odor in my program told me about engineering practicum program A googol.

Gear two words first and second year students at universities and I was told that it's not really expected that you have a lot of coding experience or no so many data structures to get into engineering practicum.

So that's when I just applied and I want to take my chance at it.

And I mean, obviously after I got the interview and I spent a lot of time studying for the interviews, But in the end I got it.

And that was my first engineering internship, the Google one.

It was a combination of cracking the code interview and also just talking to up per years.

Ah, lot of people in my program already had a lot of interviewing experience with big companies, so they kind of told me what are the common type of questions and what what are usually the data structures and algorithms they will ask you?

Interviews, especially I introduced, would like first and second year students, and that's mostly how I got my practice cool on Dhe.

So eventually you went from just interning there, Thio working there full time.

Usually, I would say not just for Google, for a lot of big companies once you've intern there, especially if you've interned there multiple times a zloty, as you've done while your projects, they're most likely to give you a return offer at the end of the internship.

So for my case, actually, I actually didn't even need to do additional interviews.

I got offer for full time position When I was in fourth year, I did some comparisons between other companies, but in the end, I decided to go is my fit.

So that's how I signed a full time offer.

I go go nice on, uh, would it work on a soft, edible practical, eh?

So I'm currently on the Cloud health care team.

It's a pretty new tune, so probably not a lot of you have heard of it.

Basically, we're building healthcare solutions on Google Cloud Platform.

Usually, we say, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and making universal week accessible and use useful for us in particular, it's more that we are organizing the world's health care information and make a accessible, useful and, most importantly, secure.

Um, I can't talk about a lot of the products that we're working on right now, but some of the stuff that we've already made public include a fire, a p I.

So that's for medical health records dot com a p I.

And we also have, like, machine learning solutions for healthcare data and just ah, lot of stuff around that, right?

So the idea is usually using Google Cloud, too.

Store medical data or maybe do something with it.

So a lot of our mission is about data interoperability.

And also how to help patients and providers with their experience Overall.

Uh uh, on, uh, could you tell us about what you're doing?

Um, I'm just us offer engineer right now.

We have a free meals ago, as probably a lot of you know.

So I usually go in the morning and have breakfast.

And then I also get my morning coffee after that because we also have a barista bar a Google on Ben while I drink my coffee.

I usually check my e mails from last night because sometimes, like you run things the day before, you want to just check some updates are coming from yesterday and then after the in the morning.

So during the samba, usually everybody gives updates about what they've been working out and what they're planning to do next.

And then we should go to lunch together as a team and then in the afternoon.

That's where the bulk of working time is.

So it's mostly coding and then some team meetings or just product updates in general.

Um, we also have a lot of like activities.

I go go so those air usually towards the end of the afternoon.

So we have a lot of pep talks hosted at Google Waterloo, and we also have a weekly T G i F.

Thank God it's almost Friday, hosted towards the end of afternoon on Thursdays, where the whole office, kind of get together and mingle and have some snacks and drinks.

So it sounds like you have, like, a lot of events happening, but when do you actually get stuff done?

Cody, I think like, as I said, I usually a lot of the time in the afternoon you is for you to get your work done.

Um and I would say, like everyone I go is really mindful about how they spend their time at those events.

So, like for myself, particularly, if I'm really, really busy with something, then I just I would skip those events just so I can get my work done.

But then, if the progress of work is a little bit slower than I would look up like, Is there any workshops that I want to do?

And that's when I would participate a little more of those things.

So you're being working there for one year, two years, one year, one year.

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