Lunch with Alexandra Gherghina from Google
- đ¤ Speaker: Alexandra Gherghina, Google
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00 - 14:00
- đ Venue: Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 2
Abstract
I’ll be talking about how I came about to work at Google, and how to take advantage of opportunities that come your way. I’ll discuss a bit about what it is like to work in a large team on a project that impacts millions of users. I’ll also give a brief talk on how to write testable, easy to work with code using Google Guice for dependency injection.
Bio:
Alexandra is working as software engineer in the Google office in London, building the platform for Google Offers project. She started in her current role as a new graduate, after completing the MSc. in Advanced Computing degree from Imperial College London. Prior to that, she obtained a Computer Science Engineering degree from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest.
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Alexandra Gherghina, Google
Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00