Harvard Professor Matt Welsh: Working for Google

[academia : toy boats in bathtubs :: industry : aircraft carriers] is the most memorable distinction between academia and industry I've heard. In the end, your slice of the pie will be as big as you can handle, but the overall size of the pie (and thus your percentage of control) determines whether you choose academia or startups or established companies.

As you can tell by the date, it's about a month old. He has a follow up blog post titled "First week at Google": <a href="http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-week-at-google.html" rel="nofollow">http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/07/first-week-at-google....</a>.

There are no portholes on the poop deck! Every sailor knows that :-)

What! And I was kinda angry with Google that after all my degrees they still consider me for "software engineering" position. This prof gets the same title. Hmm.