Google war stories

[vango]

... so I am visiting a couple of good friends at Google. Sampling the food, so to say. We are trying to select a least crowded table in their mecca-of-a-cafeteria. Finally we end up at a table with five other people, when I notice that one of them is Udi_Manber, who until recently was a CEO of Amazon's A9 before being hired by Google a couple of

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[sashamalchik]

я бы таким позором не хвастался - не знать как выглядят google founders and ceo, men on the covers of every magazine in the country at some point in time except maybe for Cosmopolitan.

[dym]

Not to mention Dilbert comics... (Although Scott Adams really screwed that one up. I can't tell who is Larry and who is Sergey.)

[sashamalchik]

Yes, that Google series is not bad :)

[ex_juan_gan]

Larry is unshaved on that stupid picture.

[anonymous]

normalno iluha 5 ballov. shto eto za chelovek takoi shto ne mog tebe obyasnit chego on delaet?

[vango]

da sluchainiy proxozhiy

[village_rabbi]

dude, что-то ты не подготовился :). Не знать в лицо Larry Page'a - автоматически no hire :).

[vango]

i was not there do get hired :) An I think it was cool in an absurd sort of way. What would you say to Larry given 2 minutes?

[village_rabbi]

спросить о творческих планах?
а на хуй мне с ним разговаривать? :)

[vango]

well, he started speaking to me, would you tell him to shut up? :) it is would be hard to say something that is not trite...

[grandcheburator]

Now, hypothetically-speaking, you heard this story except weren't told it happened to vango, would you guess as much? :))

[zheleznyak]

now I know what does it take you to write to lj
...truth to be said, that was probably a good reality check to him :) -- except for few nerds, most normal people (like me, he-he) would not recognise the guy either :))

[vango]

well, remeber it was a Google cafeteria, not really a place for "normal" people. You can safely assume Sergey and Larry cafe a demi-God like status in Google, so knowing how they look is essential part of the culture. "narod dolzhen znat' svoix geroyev". But overall it is a very unique situation in companies like Google and Yahoo, where you can easily encounter and talk to people that in any other situation would be willingly or unwillingly separated from you by various society and communication barriers