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Xooglers - Google Discussed by Ex-Googlers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the insiders-looking-back dept.

perler writes to tell us that Xooglers, a relatively new website created so that ex-Google employees could reminisce and share, has been gaining a great deal of popularity recently. The website shares what went wrong, what went right, and all of the funny happenings in between. Quite an interesting piece of Google history.

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  1. One line ... by RebelWithoutAClue · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How long does it take the sauna to get hot? You think it's okay to go in the women's locker room to get some towels since we're out in here?"

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    1. Re:One line ... by Y0tsuya · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have a girlfriend? We don't like yer kind 'round here.

  2. Re:Guess waht? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You could at least look for key words in the summery...

  3. well then by caffeinemessiah · · Score: 5, Funny
    I am an engineer at heart. I get a real kick out of watching something that I've built work. And the 'plex was the perfect environment, filled with smart, friendly people, state-of-the-art equipement, and half a dozen different kinds of coffee machines. (I actually had some interesting conversations about the finer points of espresso making, and at one point someone even brought in a book that was entirely devoted to the topic.)

    Well LAAA-DEEE-DAAAAA. Excuse the rest of us who couldn't get past the 3rd round of interviews! We'll just continue in our windowless labs/cubicles here, sucking down on 35 cent coffee from a vending machine perpetually on the fritz.

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    1. Re:well then by Mad_Rain · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well LAAA-DEEE-DAAAAA. Excuse the rest of us who couldn't get past the 3rd round of interviews!

      Where is that "Mod -1, Bitter" option?

      (joking!)

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  4. x-googlers on google blogspot by mumrah · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems to be teeming with irony.

  5. Re:obvious question by greginnj · · Score: 4, Funny
    So I'll reserve my trust regarding this site... for the same reason that I can't imagine a blog site of my ex-wives to be perfectly honest about me.
    I find your ideas intriguing and I would like to Subscribe to your newsletter.
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  6. Re:News? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is slashdot. Anything with google in the title is published - often before anyone's even bothered to read it.

    Future slashdot titles:
    Google to buy microsoft
    Google to buy AOL
    Google finds cure for cancer
    Google starts space programme

  7. Re:Why "ex" googlers? by moorcito · · Score: 4, Funny

    "....You know that thing on the internet you look at, I helped make that...."

    I don't think just ex-google employees will be the ones telling their kids/grandkids that. Just think about all the porn stars.

  8. Re:Scroll down by gothfox · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard almost nothing but bad things over MySQL by PostSQLers or Oraclers due to missing features though I went with it anyway.

    When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

  9. No fan of google? by Rhinobird · · Score: 2, Funny

    What kind of slashdotter are you?

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