When he left academia to join Google full time, Matt Welsh explained that the allure was the scope and impact of the work he could do. Welsh wrote, "I can just sit down and write the code and deploy the system, on more machines than I will ever have access to at a university."
Read more about Matt's decision to come to Google on his blog post
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Google: Scale changes everything
Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful - and the enormous engineering challenges that ...
Whoa, Google has designers
Googler Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer, gave this presentation on our visual refresh during UX Week 2011. Jon dishes the details on how we approach ...
Google's Thomas Williams finds creativity in computers
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The Google Gospel of Speed
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Google web grows in city
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