>> What do I love about my job?
I really enjoy that they're-- It's a fun field to work with.
It's a fun set of people to work with.
We're kind of in an exciting place to touch a lot of people's lives.
I work in advertising, which is sort of the side that most "Google users" don't really see,
because they're consuming things like search or maps or Gmail.
Advertising kind of funds a lot of that, but it's still real interesting to be able to work
on a product that you know millions of people are going to interact with.
And so, you know if you do a good job, you just saved, you know,
you save ten seconds of every persons day.
And, you know, multiply that by a million and you've saved, you know, a large amount of time,
simply by doing your job a little bit better.
Whereas, if you do it a little bit worse, you know, you punish a lot of users.
So it's a nice environment to kind of inspire you to connect with the world in a positive way,
do a good job, reap the benefits of influencing a lot of people.
And I think that the problems are really interesting.
They're challenging, things that as an American you wouldn't think.
Like, I make assumption because I was raised in the U.S. I think that text should be from left
to right, but it isn't always that way.
And for a company that's working at Google scale, if you exclude, you know,
users that read language from right to left, you just lost a significant amount
of people who could use your products.
And so, how to engineer to anticipate for the things like, oh, well maybe the text needs
to go the other direction or maybe this is in German and the words
and going to be four times as long.
How do we build around that?
How to we build for users who can't see because that's a small percentage of the population,
but if you're looking at six billion people, it's not such a small number anymore.
So it's really-- There are fun challenges.
You learn a lot.
I think the advantage of being around really talented, passionate people.
But, yeah, I know, it's an exciting field to work in
and a challenging one, which keeps it very not boring.
The challenges you face as a software engineer or at Google
in general, it can be pretty serious.
Sometimes, the work can be frustrating, because you're dealing with a lot of details.
You're dealing with things, big systems you don't really understand
and it's kind of a constant struggle.
I think there's the kind of job where you can learn what you need to do and just repeat that.
And that works great for some people, but I think there're some people who,
you know, that doesn't excite them.
And after the, you know, the 45th time you do that single task, it becomes kind of dreary.
But it does mean that, you know, you face sort of challenges
and you face frustration and you face imposture syndrome.
Most people-- So I've [inaudible] industry professionals who are hired to work at Google.
I'm a new grad, so I came straight from school, a little bit of a different experience.
But industry professionals are usually the top engineer at their company.
And then when they're hired to come to Google, they're no longer the top dog.
And it's a very frustrating experience, because, you know, you're not special anymore
and you can run with that in a really positive way.
You can be around people who will teach you things and learn,
but you can also face this self-doubt.
And I think that this is not an uncommon, you know, human experience, you know.
When we leave high school, we might have been great, now we're in college.
College is harder.
People are smarter.
How do we deal with that?
And so you kind of have to find your own individual strengths.
And I think that's constantly a challenge.