In Season 2, Episode 9 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Indrajit Khare on what it's like to be at a startup acquired by Google.
Indrajit was a lead engineer at Bump when it was acquired by Google, where he led the engineering team that built Google Photos and scaled it from 0 to 1 billion users.
Indrajit and Jean discuss:
- Only having a day or two to prep for a standard Google engineering interview
- The multiple factors, including clear purpose and mission, that led to a successful acquisition and integration of the Bump team into Google
- Startup mindset of doing things that don’t scale, and what that looks like at a big company
- Inner workings of Google’s acquisition of Bump, integration of the team, internal dog-fooding of Google Photos v1, and public launch.
- The vast difference of launching a product as a startup vs at Google
