You don't know: early Insider-103th Google employee revealed the company Google, Adwords-IT information
You don't know: early 103th Google employee revealed the company insider

Yesterday is Google listed 10 anniversary of anniversary (United States time is yesterday), time really of is had have soon, back up also feels like yesterday as, when of various media not bullish, to various not comply with traditional rules of listed way (Netherlands type auction financing), are caused many controversy, but 10 years passed, Google of shares liters has a dozen times times, from financial of angle has is no capacity questioned has, but this success of company behind actually is experience has countless twists and turns, I is 2000 entered Google of United States headquarters, At that time it was a small company (I was the 103th employees), a variety of little-known facts.

Commercial mode often is touch out of : I is Google Adwords advertising system of first a engineers, when just in of when I boss said "We the try try put money this things specification has", today advertising income accounted for has Google most of income, but when company also not determines advertising is a future, even we three a do Adwords of engineers are himself mutual asked has a is silly of problem: this advertising you will click did? None of us clicked on advertisements, and also feel that they are not going to click on the ads in this life, that do this have any meaning? But it turned out that we do not point does not mean that the general public does not point!

No perfect of products : first generation of Adwords advertising system only three a engineers (has a also is part-time of), plus a UI designer, no products Manager, Yes, that era Google also no products Manager this role, many people early saw Google of products are feel do have is good is human, but these products are is no products Manager to is responsible for of, is three species people put products died gnawing out of: UI designer, engineers, Group Manager. No product manager does have a lot of questions, but still came, but also incredibly fast, completed a three months (including testing, operation and maintenance, and also tried the PHP in the early, middle and Lisp's experiment! )。 First generation product does have a lot of problems, but these problems are not important, because not too many users!

"Technology is strong": everyone are think Google of technology is Internet company inside most strong of, various algorithm and data, Daniel were are love joined, but actually in early of when Google many technology is is poor of (at least from today of angle view), Google of first line Java code is I submitted of, at also no official of code review, no unit test, code specification only just began has, and no bug tracking database! Estimating software company today is hard to imagine without such a database is how to manage bugs, but Google is just fine! So Daniel, a piece of advice to all technology: Google is just "good enough" is OK, the user experience is the most important!

Exchange costs almost zero : early days few messages back and forth, it's the Conference (up to three people), a lot of things recorded in the notes (paper, not software), because there is no bug tracking database and does not need to take the time to go through the bugs. No report, no process, my boss at that time even almost goes without computer (she is a graduate of Stanford computer science). In retrospect, it's a little messy, but the product is quite good! Actually many people are does not wrote mail, not because they of writing capacity has problem, but mail is a no sent cost of tool, like if sent a seal mail needs sent pieces people payment 10 block words, again exaggerated points is each 100 Word 10 block, I believes many company of Exchange cost will sharply declined, because everyone sent mail zhiqian will first carefully wants to wants to himself wants to said what. Many people do not realize that email takes time, messages may take more time, because writing is a person (like 5 minutes), watching probably 10 people (take 1 minute per person), the company is looking for more time than writing.

Management is an experiment : I entered the Google management has three layers: CEO,VP, Manager. Later, Larry Page wanted to try the more flat, becomes CEO,VP. When 100 engineers reporting to a VP doesn't work after managers and product managers to slowly build up these roles. Also experience these explore only after unit testing and plenty of things to flow, in retrospect was really messy, but did not cause major problems to the business.

For everyone to trust : the first generation of Adwords advertising system operation and maintenance is basically just me, there is also a very experienced operations with me, but he can only gave me a little bit of time (he sleeps four hours a day), the launch process is ... No process! I wrote a simple file and script, others have just launched! I made countless mistakes (after all, I didn't do it operation and maintenance), having some company no one knows (or maybe just be fired, for example, I once accidentally cleared out portion of the user's data, retrieve backed up), but because the company has given me a lot of confidence, so I made a mistake at once to change. Startups will certainly make a lot of mistakes, a lot of people's methodology is as far as possible, avoid these mistakes happen, so will flow out many things, but when users while, more importantly ready error, an error occurred-think of a way to make amends later.