Google Tech Talk at University of Queensland

Wow it was so exciting! Indeed I can hardly calm myself down even though the event is already over. The presentation was awesome but what was even more fantastic was to have the opportunity to talk to the Google software engineers. I managed to obtain some useful advice from them as to how we should perform during the job interviews with Google. In addition, I got to know more about how the software engineers do things differently at Google.

There were two main topics - Disaster Relief Maps and scaling up Blogger. The first talk was delivered by James McGill and Ben Stewart, if I am not mistaken. The content was very interesting as I am currently doing an IT project which involves Google Maps API. The second talk was delivered by Andrew Over and he focused on how to make Blogger scalable. It was informative but I didn't manage to understand everything as I have not got much experience in distributed computing.

At the end of the tech talk, we had free pizza and some giveaways. Everyone just mingled around and the Googlers were very friendly and interesting. Before I left the event I took the opportunity to ask if I could take some pictures with Andrew Over and it was truly an exiting moment. Without any hesitation, he just said okay and he quickly went to put on his new Blogger T-shirt and then took the pictures with me! He made me felt so honored!

 

Hopefully I can become a software engineer at Google one day. This event has certainly motivated me a lot to study hard and to apply for job at Google. This is awesome! */