2: The great thing about Google is there are so many jobs here.

5: I feel like you can't really get bored here because if you get bored in one area

8: there's literally hundreds of other jobs you could go to.

12: My name is Angela Taylor, and I am a software engineer here at Google.

16: So if we go all the way back to the beginning,

17: I was an intern and got a full-time offer into our People Operations department.

22: I got from HR to software engineering by discovering programming.

28: I had a project where I needed to update a broken Excel macro.

32: In doing that and playing around with the macro, I just absolutely fell in love.

36: That's when I said, "What is it that I'm doing, and how can I do this forever?"

40: I had to first actually figure out what the job was.

42: So once I figured that out is when I realized all the stuff I needed to learn in order to actually get to this job,

48: and it took a really long time, and all of my managers throughout the time I was taking classes were very supportive.

54: I remember my manager at the time —

56: I said, "I love this coding thing. You know, it would be great to be a software engineer some day."

61: She was like, "Great! If any technical projects come up, I'll send them your way."

65: We do have 20-percent project opportunities here.

67: So a 20-percent project is a way to spend 20 percent of your work week

72: working on something that is not related to your core job.

75: So I was still in HR, did a 20-percent project with an engineering team

79: and then was able to transfer onto that team full-time.

83: Google has a pretty simple transfer process,

85: that if you want a job and have the skills for it, you just go apply for it.

89: Once the hiring managers see that you are capable, they are more than happy to have you join their team.

94: So my first job as a software engineer was in our Maps department,

97: and I worked on the Google My Business team.

99: I was working on an internal tool that allowed customer service representatives to help troubleshoot things with

104: things with local business owners who were trying to get their information on Google Maps or Search.

109: It was really exciting to actually get to see the process that goes into how

113: the products that I was using day to day actually get made.

117: You can code in pretty much any language at Google.

119: Different teams use different languages, but the team I was working on in Maps used Java and Javascript.

125: So I worked on the Maps team for a while, and I wanted the opportunity to work on something externally facing,

129: and so that's when I decided to move over to the Google Voice team.

134: What's really exciting about this team is the technologies they're using.

138: There's a lot of different things that you can use internally in Google's infrastructure

141: to get your product out.

142: So it's exciting to get to work in these new frameworks and understand how they get their code up and running.

148: So one thing that I really enjoy about Google is that they tend to not hire for positions;

152: they want to hire smart people.

154: And so when you hire smart people, they can usually fit in in different places.

158: That's the reason I have been able to have so many different roles

160: without having to move around to different companies.

162: I want to experience all that I can experience at this company,

166: and you have the support of people around you to go off and pursue those different kinds of jobs you want to try.

172: That leaves you with endless possibilities of all the things that you can do.