A NATURAL JOB, PHONETICALLY SPEAKING

Recent alumna Anna Greenwood has just started work at Google, and has this report of her first week at the ‘plex:

On Monday (10/24), I started my new job at Google (Mountain View) as a Program Manager for the Speech team. I’m working on the same team as alums Jeremy O’Brien and Eileen O’Neill, and I’m on the same campus as Clara Sherley-Appel and Jesse Saba Kirchner (and more UCSC linguists I don’t know yet). The first week has been both unbelievably exciting and stressful with information overload, but I’m psyched to be working there with awesome, dedicated, intelligent, supportive people.

In related news, we have this report from alumna Brianna Kaufman about our alums in Google Venice (where Karl DeVries decamped to at the beginning of this month) and another synergy:

We’re continuing the Slug Linguist tradition of living close to the beach, drinking way too much coffee, and taking any excuse to procrastinate and go watch an indie movie, and we’re continuing the czar(ina) tradition of filling the LA office printers with paper when needed. Come visit us down in LA where the rent is relatively cheap compared to other large cities and where the cold-pressed juice is plentiful!

After some discussion, we realized that all three of the computer czar(ina)s from 2011-2013 are now Analytical Linguists in the LA office together. (Note: there should be some kind of study done, because if I recall correctly Jeremy O’Brien and Jesse Saba-Kirchner were also computer czars.)