Google!

Hey everyone, just updating the blog for you eager readers out there!

It's been a while once again and I know some of you are anxious to hear about Google. Unfortunately, I can't say too much. I'm just not allowed to! I will tell you as much as I can though.

First off, for those of you that I talked to before I started at Google, I most likely told you that I would be fixing computers and working at a so called "help desk." This, is quite simply not the case! I worked at Google's Tech Stop (their name for a helpdesk) for about a week to get some experience on the field, however I have been doing more engineering work for Google.

My official title is an "IT Field Technician." I work for support engineering in the Corporate Engineering department.

As I have transitioned from working in the Tech Stops, I now mainly work out of my office coding and programming internal applications for Google. Right now, I am working on automating some processes within Google. Unfortunately, this is about all I can say.

As far as the rumors about Google go (free food, massages, etc), they are all true! :)

I signed up for a massage on Wednesday and boy was it good - not to mention free!

I now can proudly say I eat three very square meals per day (most of you know I usually never eat breakfast) not to mention a ton of snacks between meals. Google has a 150 feet rule where food is never to be more than 150 feet from any location in a Google building - while this is amazing, it is also quite detrimental!

On top of this, Google has 17 cafeterias, all of which are free. It is just astonishing to be completely honest.

My typical day usually progresses as follows:

* I leave my house at 7:35AM and arrive at the local light rail station.
* I take the light rail to downtown San Jose (across from San Jose State University) where I walk about 10 minutes to the Google Shuttle Bus or GBus (A Mercedez Benz Bus ! that has free Wi-Fi)
*Next, I ride the bus for about an hour and arrive to work around 9:10.
* I then grab a few friends and go get breakfast at the local cafeteria in our building. [breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, frenchtoast, fruit, and a fruit-juice smoothie]
*I then get back to my office around 9:45 which is when I begin my day.
* I work until 12PM which is when I grab lunch with my co-workers. [We usually eat at Charlie's Cafe which has about any kind of food you would ever want (Indian, asian, american, pizza, pasta, desserts, etc)]
* After lunch, I usually stop by the juice bar and grab a wheat grass shot and a smoothie =]
* I then go back to work for the rest of the day
* During the workday I may play a game of ping pong or two to help relieve stress
* Usually around 6PM I will head to the gym till 7
* After the gym I eat dinner
* I then take the shuttle bus home from Google at around 8 and get home a little after 9.

so that's the typical day. I am usually very busy with work though (mainly coding at this point).

It's a fun and great place to work. Like I said, we employees are treated very well. Google is an absolutely amazing place to work at and I enjoy everyday. The work is not always easy but the people and environment more than make up for it.

So there you have it, if you have been wondering, wonder no more!

For those of you following me on Facebook, I will hopefully have some photos up soon! Also, I am working on a Twitter account so sign up and follow me! http://twitter.com/yeagy

Thanks for reading and stay tuned!

-Nick

P.S. - For all my east coast buddies (this includes family), I really miss you guys and can't wait to come back and see you all again! =]