Question for Googlers

Charles wrote:

Since "most Googlers are running powerful Linux OS desktops"*, does this mean that most Googlers are not running Google tools(which only run on Windows and OSX*)?

Charles,
      Most the "Googlers" that are running Linux also have a Windows or a Mac desktop/laptop to use for those tools.

EDIT: Most people I know that have/run Linux have a Windows/Mac box. Including Beer

Beer28 wrote:

I believe that karim's quote is a mistatement that's supposed to read. Most linux users use google and not the other way around.

It's not a misstatement, either by me or the person who originally made it.

The piece of information you are apparently missing is that "Googlers" are people who work at Google, not people who use Google.

i.e. "most Googlers use Linux" = most Google EMPLOYEES use Linux

Tip: Sometimes things make more sense if you realize that you don't know everything.

Charles wrote:

Karim is correct. I made the assumption that it is well known that a Googler is someone who works for Google. Since anybody can use Google, and especially chronic Google users, the term Googler could in fact be applied to those who Google, but I was referring specifcally to the Googlers who work for the company Google.

C

Which I think is probably (as the same for me) against their "Hiring contract" to say that they work for Google.

If he's saying what I think he's saying, then he means that the terms of his employment contract include an NDA regarding the fact that he is employed by his employer. So basically... he cannot reveal what employer he works for... but I don't believe that this is a requirement for Google employees.

Charles wrote:

I made the assumption that it is well known that a Googler is someone who works for Google

Googler = one who Googles (v), usually... in the context of the article it is more clear.

Possible words to mean people who work at Google?

Hmm...

Googlians
Googloids
G-men (female form?)
Our benevolent overlords
?

Karim wrote:

The piece of information you are apparently missing is that "Googlers" are people who work at Google, not people who use Google.

This I did not know. I'd like to suggest a more obvious term, such as "Googlies" or "Googleserfs." That I might pick up on.

Googlinions?

Tyler Brown wrote:

If he's saying what I think he's saying, then he means that the terms of his employment contract include an NDA regarding the fact that he is employed by his employer. So basically... he cannot reveal what employer he works for... but I don't believe that this is a requirement for Google employees.

When Google-folk drive off to work, do they have to wave to their neighbors as they go to their jobs ostensibly somewhere else, and then make a quick exit off the freeway once they're out of sight?  Do they tell their families that they are in fact SGI exployees who still work at the company's old campus?  Is Google a sham company that's really a CIA front, a la the putative energy consulting firm that "employed" Valerie Plame?  Is disclosing the identity of an undercover Google operative then a violation of a court-imposed Goog order?

Charles wrote:

Any Googlers out there? I have a question for you.

Since "most Googlers are running powerful Linux OS desktops"*, does this mean that most Googlers are not running Google tools(which only run on Windows and OSX*)?

Just curious,
C

*source = Google

Where did you get the idea that Google employees use Linux on their desktops?

I've been there twice and I've never seen Linux used. Well, they won't let me near their Kernel team, so I would expect Linux to be used there (I had dinner with one of their driver architects and he says he uses Linux on his desktop, but he says that isn't typical.

I saw mostly Windows with a few Macs here and there.

Scoble,

 

Here:  http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html


I really dislike that page because the image its trying to put across is how wonderful and relaxed the office is, but to me an office full of lava lamps, exercise balls, DOGS (its bad enough when people think its OK to turn up at work with their fricking babies for crying out loud), pianos, people playing roller hockey and all that is the sort of zaniness is my personal hell.

Its the sort of sh*t I thought was confined to the history of dot-coms.

Following the above link, a section describing what can be found on "most" googlers deskstops. Suppose reading this would lead me to believe that Linux was the favored OS.


Equipment - Most Googlers have high powered Linux OS workstations on their desktops. In Google's earliest days, desks were wooden doors mounted on two sawhorses. Some of these are still in use within the engineering group.

Cider wrote:

Its the sort of sh*t I thought was confined to the history of dot-coms.

LOL  so I guess the stock price AND the work environment are stuck in 1997...

Great page BTW.

At the Googleplex headquarters almost everyone eats in the Google café 

"almost" = Sergey and Larry will have to deal with beluga caviar on the 767

Topics range from the trivial to the technical, and whether the discussion is about computer games or encryption or ad serving software, it's not surprising to hear someone say, "That's a product I helped develop before I came to Google."

i.e. MAKE WAY FOR MY EGO!  I KNOW MORE THAN YOU!

Google's emphasis on innovation and commitment to cost containment means each employee is a hands-on contributor. There's little in the way of corporate hierarchy and everyone wears several hats.

If you're Black, you get to wear the "food services" hat AND the "janitorial" hat!

Google's hiring policy is aggressively non-discriminatory and favors ability over experience.

Which is why we keep the women in the HR department where they belong!

When not at work, Googlers pursue interests from cross-country cycling to wine tasting, from flying to frisbee.

We love flying!  Especially 767s!  There's so much room inside them, you can go cycling inside ours or throw a frisbee.  Have we shown you the wine cellar?  We're so eclectic, so cosmopolitan and sophisticated!  We're so hot, wouldn't you date us?  And could you slide over a little and MAKE MORE ROOM FOR MY EGO?

Most Googlers have high powered Linux OS workstations on their desktops.

They make excellent paperweights when you develop software for Windows.

Workout room with weights and rowing machine, locker rooms, washers and dryers, massage room, assorted video games, Foosball

Yessss!  It still is 1997!