Google tech talk tonight!

Google came tonight at U of T for a tech talk. The room was totally packed, Google had free long-sleeved T-shirts to giveaway. Unfortunately, they ran out, but I did get one. It's a white T-shirt with the Google logo, which I've shown as a picture below. But they ran out of men's XL size, so I had to get a woman's XL size. It doesn't seem to be as nice compared to the black Google shirt which I wore today (also shown below). I got the black T-shirt last year when Google was on campus. I think the black T-shirt is much better, don't you think?

Anyways, Google talked about the problems that they are solving with search and queries, their infrastructure, the positions that are open (mainly full-time and summer internships), the Google culture (do you know they have free gourmet food like breakfast, lunch, and dinner, doesn't this sound like the grad life, except you're being paid as a salary to do something!), and the technical details of how they made their Google applications like Google Maps for example.

Google had a prize draw at the end where they gave away a Google lava lamp (those are popular at Google), and 2 sets of really nice speakers. I submitted my CV as I am looking for a summer research internship for next year.

I wanted to do some work and surf the Internet while I was listening to the talk, but I couldn't detect any wireless in the room! But I guess that's good, because otherwise I would be distracted to doing something else. And I am good for doing that, especially multitasking.

It's funny, when I came into the room, a lot of people thought I worked for Google, hehe.

Here's the black Google T-shirt that I wore:


Here's the white Google T-shirt that I got:


Here's the beginning of the talk:


And here's the giveaway of prizes (it's a little blurry, since I used my Motorola Razr V3 cell phone which by the way is awesome, especially with the transfer of photos over Bluetooth!):