So, first day in Google has passed. Due to the extreme appeal to confidentiality, I suppose I’m not allowed to discuss here the contents of the welcome and initial training, so I will focus on the feelings. Speaking of which, the atmosphere is very very positive, with a whole lot of nooglers (newbie-googlers) coming from all over the europe (portugal, poland, sweden, israel and so on…) for their initial training. This is especially interesting for me, since it’s my first true experience abroad (excluding univerisity thesis period).

The first week has passed and a lot of things have happened here in Dublin. First of all, I have found my desk and sort of configured it (you can find a photo of the workstation here below). Then I have started training, which involves (but is not limited to):

• lots of videos
• an absolutely extremely huge amount of docs, tutorials, papers, wikis and clay tablets
• an adequately vast amount of coffee and snacks

So, for the few ones which still don’t know, I am here in Dublin and tomorrow I’ll start my job as Google Software Engineer :-) … It seems a reasonable thing to upload some photos ( sorry for the scarce quality of the night shots).