Have you always wanted to work for the Granddaddy of Internet companies? Well, now might be a good time to present your stellar credentials...
Where does Google go next?
Yes,
it's making gobs of money. Yes, it's full of smart people. Yes, it's a
wonderful place to work. So why are so many people leaving?
By
Adam Lashinsky, senior writer
(Fortune)
-- Sean Knapp had it made. As a young computer scientist, he couldn't
have had a better gig: working at Google, the engineer's paradise. He
had all the usual perks - a massage every other week, onsite laundry,
free all-you-can-eat haute cuisine. Even better, he got to work on some
of Google's highest-profile products, including the search technology
that is the heart and soul of the company. And he made full use of his
"20% time," that famous one day a week that Google gives its engineers
to work on whatever project they want. A little over a year ago he and
a couple of colleagues, brothers Bismarck and Belsasar Lepe, ages 28
and 21, respectively, did what many of the young geniuses do at Google:
They came up with a cool idea, in this case a new way to handle Web
video.
Then Knapp, who's 27, and the Lepes did something truly
remarkable. They expelled themselves from paradise to start their own
company.
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