I was updating my LinkedIn profile the other day when I came across the following job listing:
The job is listed underneath Google’s TX-Dallas jobs page (UPDATE: it used to be on the TX-Dallas page, now there is a TX-Austin page with the listing– very interesting). Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find any coverage of when they might be opening an office here or where that office might be in the Statesman or in a few blog searches, which seems odd to me. I did a followup search over at Indeed (the best job search engine, hands down) and came across a listing for a technical sourcer in Austin, posted about a month ago. I think this thing is for real.
Google has been placing engineering offices in close proximity to the best computer science programs in the country over the past several years, so opening an up close to The University of Texas-Austin is a natural choice. I imagine this will help them in recruiting engineers from UT– lots of CS grads want to stay in Austin, and there usually are not enough entry-level jobs to support them. It will be really interesting to see a) what kind of work they will do here, and b) how their presence will impact the labor market for startups in Austin, which has been relatively insulated from the impact of the Google talent vacuum. There are many high-quality people who love Austin and couldn’t fathom living anywhere else, along with a number of ex-Austinites in Silicon Valley who might like the chance to live here again.
I wonder if they’ll have The Salt Lick do the catering…
UPDATE 2: Yep, it’s for real– here’s the listing for a Software Engineer - Austin.
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June 4th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
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