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Inside the Google-Plex

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

tappytibbins writes "Baseline magazine has an in-depth story about how Google manages its own IT infrastructure. From the article: 'In general, Google has a split personality when it comes to questions about its back-end systems. To the media, its answer is, "Sorry, we don't talk about our infrastructure." Yet, Google engineers crack the door open wider when addressing computer science audiences, such as rooms full of graduate students whom it is interested in recruiting.'"

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  1. That makes perfect sense by Flavio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most journalists and business analysts are notable for doing a half-assed job and taking credit for cut & paste jobs. Journalists who actually spend time researching their stories are a dying breed, so my take on this is that Google would rather not waste their time answering stupid questions from people who don't even understand what they're publishing. Their time is much better spent recruiting smart people or just talking to grad students in some sort of academic goodwill.

  2. Re:A Google Lecture Experience by SoCalChris · · Score: 5, Insightful
    On the otherhand, I was very unimpressed with certain issues concerning lack of professionalism in the lecture. As one example, though this is only an impression, it seemed that he felt he could just get away with wearing jeans and a Google t-shirt for the few days that he was with us because he worked at the ever prestigious Google. It seemed a bit arrogant.
    Why does he have to wear anything more than jeans & a Google shirt? A computer guy in a shirt & tie is not a happy computer guy.

    It's been my experience that the companies who worried most about what their IT staff was wearing were the worst to work for.