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Google Opens Sydney Office, Internship Program
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that Google has kicked off an internship program that will see Australian university students work in projects in the company's Sydney office. Google's local head of engineering, Lars Rasmussen, said 5-10 spots would be made available, with both technical and non-technical positions on offer. ZDNet Australia also has pictures of the official opening of Google's Sydney office."
Who cares?
You're out!!
I guess Google will have to promote "don't be evil" in a country founded by convicts.
Who's going to be the first to do a Google Mate logo?
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Wow, this sounds great. Shame I can't take advantage of it, what with them being evil by deciding to enter a market that will force them to do evil things.
Before that there was nothing but an answering machine telling callers
"Hi you've called Google. We know you care about us, but on the flipside, we dont. You can try and email us but we wont respond to over 90% of the emails we recieve. PS dont forget to visit www.google.com.au and click on 'Signup to Adwords'. Thank you and Good bye."
So now that they have an office, they've hired a desk full of people to say that manually?
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The food at google is said to be one of the finest you can get anywhere. Infact, there is a popular story (not sure if it is true) of Yahoo employees sneeking over to google cafteria for a taste of their excellent variety of rich food.
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would've been a juicier title, methinks! /. editors sleeping?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony
so quit and stop re-inforcing US stereotypes.
So now Australian students can also enjoy the benefits of internships at Google. On the other hand, if you try hard enough, you can find an internship position in e.g. Mountain View even if you're not American. So all of you people that would like to try working for Google and don't have a Googleplex around, just give it a chance. Another thing - now only one continent is Google-free. That's Africa. I wonder if any of the major software companies will eventually try to establish an R&D office over there.
http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html
Yes, I do have a prototype application using the Maps API which has had to rely on satelite/aerial images to place pins and, no, this isn't a job application, at least not unless they have a need for some very part time context analysis.
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My, my, my... lots of anonymous coward responses today. I guess I should point out that I actually, you know, live in Australia. Fancy that.
These internships are quite difficult, you are only given a computer and internet connection and then are asked to Google search for all your supplies, co-workers, and even the bathroom.
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I havent seen it announced anywhere, but Google seems to have just released an online notebook with Firefox and IE integration - http://www.google.com/notebook/
I'm currently applying for an engineering position in the Sydney Google office. I got myself into a third interview which is yet to be scheduled. Damnit that office looks nice... now I'd really feel bad if I don't get in. :(
Hmm... if you live here... your ignorance can't be excused by the fact that you're culturally pre-disposed to it the way we like to think United Statesians are.
Australia was settled by the English who then used it for various purposes including the importation of cheap labour in the form of people who weren't... you know... free.
>Moving to Sydney would do it for me.
They really do want people to move to Sidney
On this network security job ad located in Sydney Austrilia it says: "Please Note: Only candidates with EU work authorization will be considered."
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Google has a fantastic PR team in place. They are able to get every minor event on slashdot.
5 to 10 spots for all of Australia?
thanks for the offer, Google, but it's going to be difficult to get one of those spots
I'd better start preparing my resume
being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...
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Why (americans companies, usually) are so excited by free drinks and good food facilities INSIDE working place? I mean, in europe we are used to go out of office for lunch, every day, possibly changing place anytime possible, or even going at home if close enaugh, so what's the good points of having free coke inside work? It's nothing healty, nor expensive if you want to but it yourself, so, i can't really understand why google and other big companies tries to gain people attention showing this bonuses (i'm referring to the photos). I can't just understand, here in italy it doesn't make any "plus" having free coke inside the office, it's just useless, at lunch, you go out, you sit down, and eat, possibly with people different from the ones you see at work. It's just better than anything inside my workplace.
Exxon opened a new Gasoline Station down the street from my house. Should I submit that as a story?
The British colonies in Australia were not merely founded as a dumping ground for criminals. There was a high strategic importance for a British colony in the Pacific - to thwart French ambitions must also be considered.
For example the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville arrived in what became French Polynesia in 1768 and claimed the islands for France. This roughly coincides with James Cook's first voyage of discovery (1768 - 1771) that resulted in the circumnavigation of New Zealand and the mapping of the east coast of Australia. There was definitely strong interest in the region from both the British and the French.
The unknown "Terra Australis" was seen as potentially an El Dorado, hiding great mineral and other natural wealth ready to be exploited. After all, the archipelago of Indonesia, then known as the Spice Islands, were an important source of income for the Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
Establishing a penal colony in such a remote location was a low risk method of establishing a permenant presence. If the colony was lost, nobody would miss a few convicts, foolhardy free adventurers and a detachment of Marines. If the penal colony was a success, Britain had expanded her empire and thus power.
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Good lord, this first picture just screams "would you like fries with that". I would think that someone qualified to work there would be least likely of all of us to say that.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Photo_g
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Who cares? Are you going to put news on slashdot every time a company opens 5 positions??? Stop being such google whores.
"ZDNet Australia also has pictures of the official opening of Google's Sydney office" -> don't forget to easier browse the pictures with nakedbrowser: http://rawdataserver.com/dude/browser/?x=&nakedurl =http://www.zdnet.com.au/shared/images/news/google /office1.jpg
...to a country where the local government is open to a quality company competing in a fair manner. It should be apparent to any adult observer that MS has purchased the right to be the sole provider of most horizontally focused software products here in the US. So, it only makes sense to try and compete and do business where it is legal to do so.
The outsourcing of well paying American jobs continues.
I see that Senator Helen Coonan missed a chance to be in mining gear like the rest of cabinet :/ and had to settle with cutting a ribbon instead?
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The Sydney Morning Herald reports and my old bookmarks quickly confirmed that street maps for Australian cities are finally on the map.
I'm guessing I might now have to upgrade my prototype application to use version 2 of the Maps API to get the street maps to show there.
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