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My first day at Google in 2011 felt a bit like joining Hogwarts: you’re excited and not entirely sure what you’ll be doing! I was happy to do anything and learn in the process! For the next two years, ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 53-year-old Patrick Leung, a former Google employee who lives in California and works as a CTO. The following has been edited for length and ...

Was one of your New Year’s resolutions to level up in your career? If so, the good news is that search giant Google is currently hiring for new talent, and lots of available roles don’t even require ...

A product manager who worked for both Meta and Google reveals the companies' biggest cultural differences — and which is best for work-life balance.

Edwin Toh skipped university and was in the Singapore Army before getting hired by Google. He started his career as an intern in NYC and became a business owner and UX engineer. After six years at ...

For Jim Tang, working at Google was a pathway to early retirement, thanks to his high salary. But disillusionment began to creep in; he realized corporate life wasn't for him. Tang quit Google in May ...

Ritendra Datta worked as a software engineer for Google and Meta between 2010 and 2023. He compared the culture, promotion process, and workload, and said he burned out at both companies. Datta said, ...

Allison Wolff had worked for 20 years in Silicon Valley, helping companies like eBay, Google, and Facebook establish sustainability programs in-house. But in 2018, she was figuring out how she wanted ...

Google has announced changes to its flagship “Work From Anywhere” (WFA) policy. Now, both one single WFA day and a full week will count as one week. The news comes just a month after Microsoft ...