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Friday November 14, 2008
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Last night, Google hosted a media mixer at its New York engineering offices, with a handful of journalists and a dozen or so software engineers and executives in attendance. Besides the chance to mingle with Engineering VP Stu Feldman and CIO Ben Fried, the highlight of my evening was a private tour of the office.
Google leases several floors of a Chelsea office building, including a floor the size of a full city block, to house the engineering team. Google's main HQ is in Mountain View, California, but with more than 300,000 square feet and roughly 1,000 employees, the company's second-largest office is not too shabby.
Read on for a few pictures from the office, including a buffet-style snack room (there are several), a scooter parking station, a recreation room, and a computer museum that houses working machines dating back to almost before I was born.
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November 14, 2008 3:11 PM
My job doesn't look like that...I work in the banking industry with a bunch of Baby Boomers.
November 14, 2008 10:12 PM
Look like a cool place enjoy your work there.
November 17, 2008 1:45 PM
I am often deeply frustrated at the limited data available through Google.
November 17, 2008 3:15 PM
Oh man, old computers :-) just thinking of the good old C64 my big brother used to play with, hm...
November 17, 2008 4:25 PM
Love the lego art work. I dig the play room too. Lucky Googlers..
November 17, 2008 5:29 PM
Remember they have money :D Thats why it looks so nice
November 18, 2008 7:58 PM
The free snacks area of Googleplex looks the best!!!
November 18, 2008 8:43 PM
gay!!! just a bunch of illusions to keep smart people from think of free alternative energy solutions. Google is still bureaucracy and its still old school. Yay lets treat smart people like they are still in pre scrool so they dont take life seriously.
December 22, 2008 6:35 PM
I bet when you work there, all the crazy quirky crap they have around gets old fast. I suspect it has more to do with PR than employee happiness.
March 2, 2009 7:46 PM
very cool...the lego logo is pretty cool