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Yoshiki Hayashi
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Thu, 02 Dec 2004
Google open house in Tokyo
Yesterday, Google opened up their Tokyo R&D resarch center to grad students
to show what their doing and to show that they are hiring. I think it was
one of the things they are doing to build stronger relationship with Japanese
academia. Believe it or not, they don't have the strong brand here in Japan
they have in America and Europe. It's very popular among engineering and
science people but Yahoo is much more popular to others and there are still
some competing domestic companies.
I dont't know if it was to their surprise or not but their not so large office was almost full with people. It was good to me to be able to meet some people I haven't met before. For those, I had the typical response. Because I'm a Japanese, it seems that to Americans, I look much younger than my actual age. Typically, they assume I'm still undergrad. It was almost routine while I was in El Paso to have some kind of following conversation.
"What year are you in?" "Well, uhm, I'm a Ph.D. student." "What! How old are you?"
In Japan, nobody will be surprised to hear that I'm a Ph.D. student. Well, in fact, since we don't have qualifying exam, I'm a Ph.D. candidate. I'm getting tired of being a student for such a long time but I'm still a student nonetheless.
Anyways, all in all, I had a good time meeting with people last evening.