Mmm…whoa, it’s been almost three months since I’ve started working for the G. It has gone by surprisingly quickly; I suppose having to learn a bunch of new systems helps move the clock hand.
Having been at startups for the past two years, it’s a bit of a shock to go back to a corporate environment, especially one as different as Google’s. On one hand, the big-company benefits are mostly as good as the recruiter’s pitch – nice having decent food, a well-stocked kitchen, generous medical insurance and matching 401k again. The other hand is dealing with the sheer scale of a twenty-thousand employee-company, where every meeting requires a conference call across five different time zones and everybody is a stranger in the office.