[nylug-talk] Google (oops, sorry about the previous post)

[Ajai Khattri]

Johnn wrote:
>
> I work in 111 8th Ave, and Google has already finished at least the
> lobby area (and, by implication, the office space). I've seen them for
> the past 3 weeks or so on the 6th floor (their lobby is next door to one
> of our datacenters). They're on the 9th Ave side.
>
> Through the all-glass front door, you can see blue carpet, a nice desk
> with one or two computers, and usually one person sitting behind the
> desk. The colorful Google logo behind the desk. Plants and a bunch of
> those curvy "modern"-type furnitures scattered throughout the lobby.
>
> Haven't gone inside yet though, so don't know how complete it is. But
> there are definitely people coming and going from there.
>
>
> We also heard the same "rumors" that they were building out their
> datacenter on the other floors. That information was passed onto us as
> more than rumors, but these days, who really knows?

We have servers in several cabinets with Level 3 (3rd flr) and I used to 
have a rack with Verio (7th flr). You used to be able to walk all the 
way from 8th Ave to 9th Ave *inside* the building on the 7th floor but 
now it is closed off - some company moved in and took over half a block 
of space on the 7th floor.  I dont know who that is though.

Actually, when I visited Google at 1440 Broadway I was kind of 
underwhelmed by it - Ive seen *much nicer* offices around the city. (And 
the "Fashion District" is probably the shittiest neighborhood to have an 
office in ;-)




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