Software Engineer, Google.

>> I'm Lowell Trott. I work at Google as a software engineer. I'm at the house somewhere around 7:00, head to the bus, hop on. I have about an hour to an hour and a half on the bus. They have private busses that Google has for all of its employees. So they have a network throughout the Bay area, which is nice. It means I don't have to own a car or drive to work. So I'll get to work, I'll usually check on my team, kind of set for a couple goals for the day. I'll have a mix of meetings and some time to myself to engineer some things. I'll be able to hopefully get at least a few hours of sitting in front of the computer actually building some software and then we get lunch together as a team, come back. I do martial arts at Google. So I'll either go the gym or I'll do some martial arts in the afternoon. So the atmosphere at Google is, I think, it's actually really constructive. It's one of the better work environments I've seen. I think there's kind of a lot of people around who are motivated to solve the problems at hand, a lot of people who really just want to come to the best solution. And I think one thing that Google does really well, and it's largely of being a big company, is it doesn't have to hire sort of mean or negative people, because when it's choosing from the best of the best, then, you know, if someone's very talented but they're a jerk, Google can say no, thank you. We'd rather keep the work environment pleasant. There are plenty of other qualified individuals. So one thing I've really noticed and I really appreciate is that, you know, people are opinionated. They're informed. They sometimes conflict, but it's usually done in a really respectful or positive way. And then, in terms of just being an employee there, Google does a really good job of sort of taking out the worries of the, you know, average work day so that you can focus on what you need to get done. If you need a snack, it's a, you know, 24-foot walk from your desk. If you need coffee, it's there, ready when you get there. If, you know, you don't have to decide where you're driving for lunch, because when, you know, you'll have the option downstairs in the cafe or you can cross the street to three or four other options. It does a good job of making it so that the thing you focus on is the work at hand and hopefully that work is something you enjoy.