Google Testing Blog: Test Engineering Internships

Test Engineering Internships

Monday, April 16, 2007

Global - Google has engineering offices (and, of course, customers) all over the world. So not only do we have engineers from everywhere, every engineer gets the chance to make software that will be as great in Singapore as it is in Finland.

Comfortable - Engineers need to be comfortable to be effective...and Google gives us the equipment to be comfortable. And if our muscles get tight from sitting, we can get an on-site professional massage.

Flexible - Getting work done is more important than what time we work.

Unhampered - We're a company designed by engineers for engineers, so functional merit tends to outweigh other considerations at decision-making time.

Entertained - We have lots of fun activities. Every winter, there's a company-wide ski trip. Every summer, there's an all-engineer picnic on the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. Google has bought out theaters for opening days of films like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

Listened to - Google has a very open environment and truly values each employee's opinions. Every Friday, there's a company-wide meeting where Larry and Sergey (our founders) report on significant events and have an open-to-all Q&A session.

Stuffed - In most offices, Google provides free gourmet-quality breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you come in too late to get breakfast (or you get hungry between meals), you can always head to the nearby mini-kitchen and grab some fruit, cereal, and tea (or crisps, chocolate, and espresso for the less healthily inclined).

Cutting-edge - We have the audacious goal of organizing the world's information -- and to meet it, we've built the largest distributed computer system in the world and written some of the world's most widely-used software.