{"id":107,"date":"2008-01-27T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-01-27T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T21:49:06","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"New job, new country, new language, new adventures!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve managed to spread the news to most of my friends and family, I feel more comfortable posting this. A few weeks ago, I accepted a job with Google<\/a> as a sysadmin on their Site Reliability Engineering team. Moreover, I’ve accepted the job in their Zurich, Switzerland office! Yes, you read that right, I’m moving to Switzerland. If you’re interested, read on for more details<\/p>\n

The job itself is an amazing opportunity. The people on the SRE team are some of the brightest minds around, and as anyone in the IT field knows, Google has some of the most exciting technology around. When I’m looking for a job, or considering accepting a job, my first criteria is the challenge that job will present. The more challenging the environment and the position, the more I’ll grow as a professional and as a person. Being on the SRE team at Google will definitely require me to push myself to new heights. In addition, working with some of the top professionals in the world is incredibly exciting. The more smart people I surround myself with, the more I can learn and again, the more I can challenge myself.<\/p>\n

Outside of the job itself, as most of you know, I’ve wanted to move abroad for a long time. Where better to move than Switzerland? It’s an awe-inspiringly beautiful country, it’s new and exiting, and last, but certainly not least, it’s smack in the middle of Europe – so I’m but a short train ride from almost anywhere in Europe!<\/p>\n

And finally, as many of you in the IT industry know, Google is just a good company. And I’m not referring to all the perks that they provide (although those are certainly very awesome! :). I’m referring to everything else. They take their “don’t be evil” motto seriously; they’ve provided lots of very cool<\/strong> code back to the community<\/a> (like Zumastor<\/a>, Android<\/a>, AJAX libraries, and others totaling over a million lines of code in over 100 projects); they provide AJAX APIs to most of their services making it easy to interoperate with them from a variety of platforms; they spend tons of money every year fighting to keep personal data about their users private; and that’s just off the top of my head. I’m very exciting about working for a company that I admire and respect.<\/p>\n

For those of you who know me personally, I move in May, so I’ll be trying very hard to see everyone before I move. Please feel free to ping me though – I’d really hate to miss anyone. Also, keep in mind, you now have a good excuse to visit Switzerland! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve managed to spread the news to most of my friends and family, I feel more comfortable posting this. A few weeks ago, I accepted a job with Google as a sysadmin on their Site Reliability Engineering team. Moreover, I’ve accepted the job in their Zurich, Switzerland office! Yes, you read that right, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}