What is a typical day like for a software engineer at Google?
Software engineer at Google
In short: Google Engineers are pampered!
A typical day starts with:
Get picked up by frequent Google Shuttles near your home
Bike to work or take your bike in the shuttle racks for an evening biking.
- Free wifi in the bus to start checking your emails, calendar or just browse
- If you did not bike to work have a workout at the gym
4.have a free breakfast with variety
- Some teams have daily standup meetings
- Start coding. All Engineers either get 2 24" monitors or 1 big 30" monitor.
High end workstation. Ergonomic chair, Ergonomic keyboards. Macbook pro/Macbook air/Linux/Windows laptops! Bean bags lying nearby.
Attend a meetings. Based on your role you might attend one to tens of meetings every week. Attend meetings at different buildings spread over a vast campus and use shuttle service or help yourself with bikes.
- If you get bored have fun with slide
or play
- Get back to work
- Decide which cafeteria you would like to have a meal today!
Enjoy the different cuisine tasty food with a hell lot of choices.
The number of choices is much more than that for breakfast and dinner
dont forget the desserts. - Get back to work
- Have dinner again at these amazing cafes and get dropped with the frequent comfortable shuttles.
If it's a Friday, celebrate TGIF with snacks and alcohol.
If you want to take a break from these perks you can work from home too 🙂
Occasionally you would also use onsite haircuts, an onsite doctor, massage, attend tech and non-tech talks!
Go for a team offsite and ski, snowboard, go-kart or Las Vegas .
The best part is every day you get to talk to the smartest people, learn and grow!
Google is definitely a dream company!!! Keeping employees happy with great culture and keeping users happy with great products.
