Courtesy of Edwin Toh
- Edwin Toh skipped university and was in the Singapore Army before getting hired by Google.
- He started his career as an intern in NYC and became a business owner and UX engineer.
- After six years at Google in NYC and California, he left in April to join an AI startup.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Edwin Toh, a former UX engineer at Google in New York. It has been edited for length and clarity.
My friend told me what I should expect at Google's New York office before I started working there. You don't get the vibes you see in the movies — it's just a big office building.
But when I stepped inside the lobby during the summer of 2018 and saw the big logo with the interactive screen, I still thought, Wow, I'm actually entering Google.