Google | Customer Solutions Engineer | Full time | Mountain View, CA
As a Customer Solutions Engineer, you will utilize both your technical aptitude and exemplary communication skills to drive business with Google's top-tier customers. You will work with our Sales, Sales Operations, Product Management, and Engineering teams to improve the online presence of our clients by providing technical solutions that include products such as the AdWords API and YouTube custom channels. You will develop value propositions, present business arguments, create proofs-of-concept, and evangelize Google technologies. You will interact frequently and closely with our customers on both technical and non-technical levels. The CSE role allows you to apply both your technical skills and business acumen in the fast-paced world of Google sales.
Requirements:
Minimum: BS degree in Computer Science or related major (In lieu of degree, 5 years of work experience in relevant field).
Minimum: Application development experience within the UNIX and/or Windows environments.
Minimum: 2 years coding experience in Java, Python, C++, or PHP
Minimum: 2 years technical background in Web technologies such as HTTP, HTML, XML, DNS, and TCP/IP.
Minimum: 2 years Technical sales or field sales experience, with strong business knowledge; sales engineering or professional consulting experience
Minimum: Excellent communication skills.
Preferred: MS degree in Computer Science or related major.
Preferred: 5+ years Technical sales or field sales experience, with strong business knowledge; sales engineering or professional consulting experience
*Preferred: Proven ability to adapt your message to the technical level of the audience and comfort presenting technical materials to large groups.
It's been beat to death, but everything of substance that I took away from college came from outside the classroom.
Socialize. Network. Further develop your relationship building skills.
The way I see it: I entered college as a smart, but normal guy. I had no special connections or family ties, and I subscribed to the 6 degrees of separation mentality. I'm now 23 and I'd be willing to be I could meet anyone in the world with through 3 degrees of separation.
College was that extra 3 degrees, and it was well worth it.
Back when I used AOL/AIM in high school there was an explosive adoption of "always on" internet services such as DSL and cable. During this time, it became fashionable for teens to express their current emotions/actions/likes as their "Away Messages" on AIM, which was something new compared with the limitations their previous dial-up connections. I'd go as far to say these messages were the precursor to services like LiveJournal.
Since college, with the mass adoption of social networks, I would guess that 95% of all my friends no longer use independent chat services, like AIM.
I see twitter as the next iteration of "Away Messages" - or, what they now call status updates.
Personally, I dislike Twitter for my personal use. I think it is a fascinating way for brands to sell products to unsuspecting consumers, but there is no value as a standalone "Away Message" platform... that would be the job of something like Facebook status updates, since all of my friends are already connected on there.
As for how it grew? It both filled the need for people to continually express themselves and that other really important thing... celebrity endorsements.
+1. That's exactly how I view Twitter - as a modern version of "away messages." I remember looking forward to the always-on Internet connection in college dorms as a way to set long-lasting away messages so friends can see what I'm doing or some witty remark I thought of.
"Personally, I dislike Twitter for my personal use. I think it is a fascinating way for brands to sell products to unsuspecting consumers, but there is no value as a standalone "Away Message" platform... that would be the job of something like Facebook status updates, since all of my friends are already connected on there."
Twitter seems better for personal use. Advertising/commercial use is everywhere, and it's nice to have a tool that's relatively uncluttered where I'm not being "targeted".
There are several advantages of twitter being "a standalone 'away message' platform" over Facebook:
•It's simpler (both in its look and its goal). I don't have to worry about applications, games, polls, or whatever else people do on Facebook that isn't communicating a single, focused idea, link, or observation. To me all that stuff isn't added value, it's just more baggage.
•Following can be one-sided, whereas friending is an agreement and is based on a real-life identity. I don't need to have a pre-existing connection to follow or be followed on twitter. Because Facebook is based on who you actually are, it doesn't have a "shit my dad says" or a "yelling bird" or whatever else that's silly and entertaining unless you have that one hilarious friend.
A simple solution: Require individual activation through a student's .edu email address and only allow the school's license to work with their own school.edu emails.
[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/02/exclusive-pre...