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Google Logo in LEGO Click here to view this gallery. Tour Google's sprawling Mountain View, CA, campus and as you ogle the colors, great employee facilities and sense of whimsy, you'll think, "Why can't more offices be like this?" In reality, at least one of them can. It's Google's second largest office, not in California, but instead nestled among the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan. The company calls this facility "Google NYC," and it is big and surprisingly entertaining for a corporate office where 2,500 employees work on everything from Google Search and Ads to Google Maps, Docs and more. In fact, Google told Mashable that the office is host to the second-largest number of Google engineers in the company (you can guess where the rest of them are). Google inhabits multiple floors of the downtown building and the one Mashable visited covers an entire city block. It's so large that areas have been given special names so people can keep track of where they are and where they're going. To get from one place to another, many employees use one of the hundreds of Razor scooters on the floor. As you would expect, there's ample free food and lots of unusual places to sit, meet and read. On the day we visited, there was what looked like a lunch counter facing a cooking show/music recital set where one seat was reserved for Yo Yo Ma (yes, the Yo Yo Ma) who was visiting that day. One entire wall is devoted to LEGO art and LEGO creation. ...
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Inside the Google NYC LEGO and Tech Fantasy Land [PICS]
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