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Tobo Promo II ✓
Oct. 19th, 2019 03:30 pmMy promotion was successful! Now I'm "level 6" and supposed to manage groups and stuff. More to say but I guess I shouldn't write it here.
Tobo Promo II
Oct. 6th, 2019 09:00 pmI applied for promotion again at work, to "level 6" (I'm a "hardware engineer" despite software being my primary output). The committee met on Thursday to decide promo cases at our company and I expect to hear the result this week, probably on Wednesday. I feel like I have a good shot at it.
tobo promo ✓
Apr. 23rd, 2017 07:05 pmHey, I got promoted! On 4/20 my boss took me aside and told me the news. This week I should get the official letter. And salary increase!
wilderness
May. 3rd, 2016 09:38 pmToday in my job at Google: eight hour wilderness first aid training.
I believe this is somewhat unusual.
I believe this is somewhat unusual.
[jobs] Google ...
Jun. 30th, 2014 11:36 amI have a phone call scheduled with the Google recruiter for tonight to find out the details of their offer... Place your bets.
Also, got the official offer from Synaptics... they actually increased the compensation a little bit, if you can believe that. They have a good strategy of repeatedly exceeding expectations.
Got a nice email from Synthego saying they don't know what to do with me, but to keep in touch.
Also, got the official offer from Synaptics... they actually increased the compensation a little bit, if you can believe that. They have a good strategy of repeatedly exceeding expectations.
Got a nice email from Synthego saying they don't know what to do with me, but to keep in touch.
[jobs] Google recon II: into the 'plex!
Jun. 9th, 2014 01:38 pm
Turns out my Facebook friend list is full of lurking tech-industry workers. A friend who I know via the Berkeley programming contest got in touch with me and invited me for lunch and a tour of the GooglePlex today.
First impressions: Goddamn, everyone is so young! It's like a college campus. Only more crowded! It is a hive of open-plan offices heavily populated with things like: (free) cafes and cafeterias, nap pods, gyms, volleyball courts, experimental aircraft (there is a spaceship 1 prototype hanging in one of the buildings), ball pits, pool tables, etc.
I'm happy that I'm doing reasonably well with jet lag, having managed to immediately adopt a local sleep schedule. Still a bit tired, though, which will be a small handicap in tomorrow's "ruthless grilling."
[jobs] Google recon
Jun. 8th, 2014 07:45 pm
Today I scoped out the GooglePlex in advance of my interview there* this coming Tuesday, so that I'll be able to find the building and all that.
First impressions: it's way smaller than I expected! I expected, somehow, a giant complex, maybe even connected by hamster tubes literally crawling with nerds and engineers. The main thing, it turns out, is just four medium-sized buildings, which you can circumnavigate on foot in ten minutes.
Of course there are many other buildings in the surrounding area. And it seems suspicious that the main campus buildings are numbered 43, 44, ...
Amazing how much talent and know-how and so many famous computer science people are concentrated in these buildings.
[*] My interview is not actually at the main GooglePlex but half of it will be across the street at a complex used by Google[x], and the other half will be in Alameda CA.
choices, choices
Nov. 6th, 2003 01:20 amI'm so conflicted. When I get negative vibes from Google I start scheming for how I could make my application better, I start envisioning just how cool it would be to work there in these pre-IPO days, along such luminaries as Rob Pike himself... But then — I am so weird — the positive vibes scare me even more, and suddenly I have pre-emptive nostalgia for lazy days is Berkeley, taking courses, working at LBL, living in the co-op, hanging out at the 88" cyclotron. (Honestly right now the latter alternative sounds so much more attractive, but tomorrow my view will probably change again...) Sometimes I'm glad these things aren't entirely up to me.
Oh yes, I should add that the U.C. Berkeley "letter of recommendation" form for graduate school has checkboxes with the following options:
That's what we're up against.
