Search and software giant Google is seeking out new tech talent down under. They will be running a recruitment week in major Australian cities all this week, looking for the best and brightest to help them bring Google to Australia. The division that is seeking new young software stars is Google Research and Development.
Google is calling the massive talent search G-Day Google, and the hunt begins in Melbourne. Currently, Google’s presence in Australia consists of a 200 person branch in Sydney. That number is twice what it was last year. With that kind of growth, Google wants to make sure it has its finger on the pulse of the nation’s brightest technology stars.
Google is calling the week of searching and interviewing a “networking” event. They have not announced a goal number of people they are seeking, but have invited hundreds of software engineers and technology gurus to participate so far. They seem to be taking a “more is better” approach to staffing their Australian offices, a move that bodes well for area employment.
The events are invitation only to help ensure they are seeing candidates targeted to their needs overall. According to Google Australia Senior Engineer Alan Noble: “The emphasis is on software engineering. We are looking for people who are hands-on and enjoy not just designing and architecting but building products. That means solid programming skills are essential. They also need some good general problem solving skills. A lot of the products we are building are challenging in terms of scale. It’s easy enough to write software used by 10,000 people, but when it’s for 10 million, that’s an interesting challenge.”
