It’s almost the end of summer, which means interns everywhere are approaching the looming question they’ve probably been avoiding: Am I getting a return offer?The job market may feel more chaotic and competitive than usual — and AI certainly adds a layer of uncertainty as it reshapes the workforce and…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, one of the company’s most respected engineers and executives, is leaving the search giant as part of a broader AI leadership shake-up at the search giant.Naturally, employees have had something to say about his shock departure.Googlers peppered the company’s central message board with memes and…
Mercor’s interview process is less vibe coding, more whiteboarding. On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Saturday, Mercor’s head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can be completed with AI.”We’ll do one round where we find out…
Imagine making nearly $100 billion extra and dedicating exactly one vague sentence to it. That’s just what Google parent Alphabet did in its second quarter earnings report.The tech giant reported that its “other income” totaled $98 billion in the second quarter, noting it came from unrealized gains on its investments.Analysts…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adam Stewart, 43, who lives in the UK. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I worked for nearly 20 years straight before I took a career break.10 of those years were at Google, which I loved, but it was…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, the founder of Swil Arts Studio. She left her job as a software engineer at Google, spent a year traveling with her partner, and discovered watercolors in Thailand. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.I was born…
I work at Google helping organizations implement and adopt AI solutions, yet I have spent the last eight years raising my daughter with nearly no access to tech beyond weekend family movie nights.What began as an intentional decision, one I knew would test my limits as a parent, especially during…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former account executive at Google based in the Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I earned nearly $1 million last year as an account executive at Google, but I felt some “FOMO” around the AI…
Getting a sought-after job at a top AI lab may require a surprisingly old-fashioned approach, according to a Google DeepMind distinguished engineer.”Work like a dog,” Vladimir Feinberg, a researcher who leads Gemini pretraining at Google’s AI lab, wrote in a recent blog post titled “How to Land a Frontier Lab…
