Even if you want to work at Google, you probably don't want to be there forever.
Well, it turns out there's a bucket list for Googlers, too. A bunch of former Googlers listed everything you should do before you leave the company on Quora.
A lot of them are related to taking advantage of Google's perks, but the take-away is that Google has a ton of resources that will make you a better engineer — so take advantage of them.
Without further ado...
Learn how to be a badass coder.
"Google invests a significant amount of effort in engineering education and in producing detailed codelabs with exercises that bring you up to speed on core abstractions like protocol buffers."
Translation: Google wants you to be a better software engineer, so take advantage of the tools they are giving you. Be like Jeff Dean.
Attend talks by celebrities and tech geniuses.
"You might be able to catch Lady Gaga and President Obama when he was running for office. While I was at Google, I went to talks by Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt, cartoonists for The Simpsons, presidential candidate Ron Paul, Java collections architect Joshua Bloch, Python language creator Guido Van Rossum, and many more."
Translation: Google attracts some really cool people to its campus. Go see them.
Enjoy the power trip of using all of Google's resources.
"Run a MapReduce on thousands of machines. Few places offer you access to so many resources at your fingertips, and your first one feels quite empowering."
Translation: Googlers have a huge amount of computing power and resources at their fingertips. Ride the wave.
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