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Courtesy of El Colombiano |
I was lucky enough to join four other Googlers on the first engineering university recruiting tour to Colombia. I was overjoyed to be able to return to my native country to offer the kind of outstanding internships and full-time opportunities that I dreamt of when I was an undergrad walking the same halls.
During our short stay in Colombia, we visited four universities, including EAFIT, Javeriana, U. Nacional and the Universidad de los Andes. We met with dozens of faculty and staff and gave five separate talks to packed audiences of students that totalled nearly 1,000 attendees. We were very happy to receive such positive response from students, faculty and staff—thank you to all those who made our visit so successful.
Over a thousand tweets about our visit were posted, so many that our university recruiting colleagues back in the U.S. took notice! A special tip of the hat to the Universidad de los Andes students, who tweeted the most out of all the universities we visited. Here are a few memorable ones:
Quiero las 15 libras de #google @paezaurio
I want the #Google 15 [a reference to one of our running gags]
Que pasa en el baño de #google?
What happens in #Google’s restrooms? [Testing on the Toilet!]
Quien es markov?! no se pero esta en mi tesis! @danielfrg
Who is Markov?! I do not know, but he is in my thesis now! [regarding Googlers using Markov chains to test distributed systems]
We were impressed by the advancements these universities have made in the last decade. Progress is visible in several dimensions: from world-class education campuses and research labs; to strides in academic collaboration and CS curriculum evaluation; to research projects that tackle very significant challenges. A few of the projects I found particularly interesting were a landmine sweeping robot, a histopathology image search prototype. A haptic system that allows museum visitors to manipulate pre-Columbian jewelry and an enterprise architecture lab. Keep up the great work, Colombia!
No matter if you speak Spanish or Swahili, we’d be just as excited to meet you as we were our engineering colleagues in Colombia. If you would like to apply for internships or full-time jobs at Google for early and mid-2011, it’s not too late. Submit your resumes through our Student Jobs site. Some of the engineering offices that are actively recruiting include Belo Horizonte - Brazil, New York, Zürich and our headquarters in Mountain View.
I think I speak for the whole team when I say that we are very excited to head back down to Colombia next year. ¡Hasta la próxima!
Luis D. Maya, Engineer, Google Apps for Business
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