I recently hit my third work anniversary at Google!
It was on the 21st of May. I had a couple of colleagues and my wife congratulating me for this. That made me wonder if this is really something that deserves praise. Somewhere down the line, it took me on a retrospective journey, and here we are — with a long essay!
I joined Google on the 21st of May 2019 and before this, I spent three years working at Microsoft.
For me it wasn’t just a change of employer or tag, when I made the switch I:
Moved from India to Singapore.
Moved from working on the cloud to working on mobile / camera technologies.
Moved from thinking about powerful distributed systems to thinking about low-powered edge devices.
Moved from building for enterprise customers to building for end users.
Moved from working more or less independently to leading others.
So in a way I just got 50–50% experience in all these verticals. Although I must confess, the second half benefitted greatly from all the…
