Your own motivation, your drive to accomplish something, is what actually
drives projects forward. People are more important than technology.
I'm Urs Hölzle and I'm the SVP for Technical Infrastructure. I've worked at
Google since 1999. In a way I've been doing the same thing for the last you
know 19 years, namely infrastructure. You know that was my first thing but what
surprised me is actually how much that question has changed and I don't feel I
have the same job even for two years in a row because it very much changes over
time because you get to apply your technical skills to new problems and
problems that are surprising. Cloud for example is really materially
different from what we used to do and that keeps it interesting, and sometimes
frustrating of course, but rewarding more often than frustrating.
Infrastructure is not just about the technology, it's actually about creating
an outcome that matters for customers or for end-users or for someone internal.
On pretty much any area of infrastructure, our network is something like a quarter
to 30% of Internet traffic that's delivered to user comes from Google.
So clearly with our network we have to do things that weren't done before because
there isn't an existing one that works for that problem. To some extent
the craziest idea was really the original index all the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful. Then it was kind of
crazy and it still is, except that today the expectations of the user are much higher.
Literally when we launched people were super happy that you could type in
Stanford or IBM or Coca-Cola and actually get Stanford or IBM or
Coca-Cola because that was actually new at the time. The product leads a user to
expect more and more and it's very challenging to keep up with that but
often when you fail you still solved a very important problem halfway. So it's
much harder to fail completely. If you are ambitious versus when you're not
ambitious you're trying to do something incremental and any fail, you really
fail. Like you did nothing, and that is much worse. It's an interesting job but
at the same time we're really trying hard to make it a fun job,
to make it a job where you actually like to hang out because people are your
friends and not just your co-workers in that keeps lots of people, here including
myself. Transfers are very easy inside of Google. Google isn't really one company.
You can go from a very business facing thing like advertising to something like
Gmail that's very user focused, and that way you can kind of change your career
without changing the company. You can go to a different team or to a different
challenge in a very very low overhead way and that's why we're actually
spending a lot of time trying to really make people feel empowered and free
to take risks and you know respect risks but not fear them. If you're passionate
about infrastructure this really is an awesome place because we have some of
the best infrastructure everywhere and we really work, and we
have to work, on the problems that are leading edge. I mean, ten years in the
past basically almost nothing that you care about today existed and so ten
years from now I think the things that we're going to be most excited about are
things that we're not really thinking about, and yes, you know I hope we have a
big hand at inventing that so to speak but I have no idea what it will be.
I have absolutely no idea, that's why you should apply!
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