Chasing Squirrels

#130 - Brian Crook, Head of Customer Engineering at Google Cloud

May 10, 2021 Jeff Winkler Season 1 Episode 30
Chasing Squirrels
#130 - Brian Crook, Head of Customer Engineering at Google Cloud
Show Notes

Brian is the Head of Customer Engineering at Google Cloud with experience spanning martech / adtech, SaaS and enterprise software development. He has extensive experience with high volume low latency solutions, mobile and large scale data analytics as well as a strong background in real-time systems, data management, data science, privacy and cloud infrastructure.

On today's episode, he walks us through what his team is currently working on and the best ways to prepare for Google's interview process as well as what he's looking for in those joining his team.  He walks up through his extensive background as part of several founding teams that started companies as well as a stop at a VC firm and his learnings from that experience.  We also dive into some of his currently open positions and why they are the worlds best training for technical candidates that want to some day be entrepreneurs themselves.