Hey Guys,
One of the great things I decided to do at the beginning of 2016 was travel around the United States.
I started my journey in Los Angeles & then went to Las Vegas for the Affiliate Marketing Summit West 2016.
Now, I’m in San Francisco.
Right now, I’m at the Coursera office writing this post (…will give you a tour of Coursera office later; it is a really cool place).
If you are an online worker, you likely have a dream to visit the offices of companies like Google, Facebook & other tech giants. I certainly do.
When I was researching about how can I take a tour of the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, I quickly learned that I needed to have a friend or someone I knew who can give me a tour.
An enlightened man once said, “You get what you dream for“. This is exactly what happened with me here.
I have been in touch with a Google team member for a long time as I was helping her with a referral program. I asked her if she could help me organize a tour of Google’s offices when I visit San Francisco, and she happily agreed.
Since we were in a time crunch at Google, this is what I could see in about 2 hours.
Note: This is a scaled down version of all the images. You can find HQ images over here.
My visit to Google Headquarters: 20th Jan 2016
I started by meeting the Google for Work team in Mountain View, CA & this is what the visitors lobby looks like:
I was greeted by Shannon, Brijesh, and Keith & then we had a brief conversation regarding work.
From there we went for lunch & after being in the U.S. for almost 15 days, for the first time I had a delicious & authentic Indian meal.
The Google Mountain View HQ was about 1.6 miles away, but before moving, I took this photo outside the Wishman office.
After a 10 minute drive (and trying to get a parking spot for 5 minutes), we reached Google HQ. It’s a big area with multiple streets, but once I arrived inside the Google complex, I felt like I was home.
One prominent thing I noticed were the bicycles which are readily available everywhere. These bikes are for everyone who needs to move from one building to another. Yeah!
Google’s office complex is pretty huge & using bicycles or walking between buildings encourages employees to stay healthy.
There were plenty of outdoor places where you can eat & enjoy the warmth of the California sun.
Here is a cool dinosaur that is part of their cultural program:
Also there’s this:
Once we were done walking around Google HQ, we went to a designated area for visitors.
That’s called the “Google visitor center – beta”. (Don’t ask me why it’s call beta.)
These are from the Google visitor center (-beta):
From here we went to Google’s shop to get some goodies.
Shannon was super sweet as she gifted me a few Google goodies. These next pictures are from Google’s Merchandise Store:
Once we were done, we moved back to the Wishman office.
And before we said goodbye to each other, we took this final selfie:
In the end, it was great seeing the real people behind those email addresses. Thanks to Shannon & Kathy for hosting me & showing me around.
I hope you enjoyed this virtual tour of Google’s HQ at Mountain View. Visiting Google’s HQ was a dream come true & next on my to-do list is to have a tour of the Facebook office.
Like the enlightened man said, “You get what you dream for.”
P.S: Feel free to use these images on your blog as they are licensed under a creative commons license. If you’d like, you can give credit to ShoutMeLoud.com for these images.
(On the next installment of me giving virtual office tours, I will give you a virtual tour of Coursera, which is a popular website to get degrees online.) (Update: That tour is here.)
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Very cool. I always wanted to go there and I live in America but on the other side of the coast. lol
Hello, Harsh I’m glad to hear that you traveled around the US and Visited Google HQ in California. Keep rocking . .
Harsh
Awesome as always but this time, it is terrific. Google, the dream place to visit once in my lifetime. Pictures are really cool and wish I’l visit there too 🙂
Great Harsh, I think most of the bloggers have a dream to visit Google’s office. I also want to visit, thanks for sharing your experience.
Hi Harsh,
Nice to you at google headquarter.
Hope one day I will also take a tour there.
Beautiful pictures… I think it’s not only a foreign tour to you, but also an awesome experience you have ever had. Happy to see you there. Hope all your dreams will come true. Once you will meet some more great people too like Neil Patel, Brian Dean, Sundar Pichai and many more. All the best Harsh.
Hello Harsh Nice to see you in Google office. Hope most of us dream and you MADE it! 🙂 Kudos.
Yes you deserve that position,to go to Google Head Office.It’s great motivation for others.
May your all wishes come true and u have lot of Fun. Ameen.
Good Luck & Keep it up.
Hey bro, its awesome to read about your experiences in US and in Google’s office especially when we remember that Google is the primary source of income for our blogs to survive and if Google wasn’t there it would have been a difficult to blog make our dreams of helping as many people as possible come true.
Thanks for awesome images and I would give credit to SML if I use them 😉
Awesome!
Good to see you travelling around the world as a Blogger. I’d love to visit Google office. Thanks for sharing these amazing pictures.
Its really Awesome to visit offices like Google. You are very lucky indeed.
Hai Haresh,
I really proud of you. But am getting jealous too. anyway Congratz Keep Going.
OMG! Harsh, You’re living my DREAM!!! Believe meI feel like entering into my Laptop right right, just to take some goodies and the Shirts. I’ve been dying to see something like this and here it is. Thanks boss! I’d love to work there one day…:-)
Putting this on thatnigeriablog.com ASAP!
Wow, it’s great. I am new to this blog and Hope this blog will help me more. Thanks, Harsh.
It’s amazing tour Harsh. very nice images.
Thanks for giving us motivation.
Hi HARSH,
It was so nice to see you there, nothing better than that being a blogger to visit Google. No doubt its the dream of every blogger but few of them could achieve them and you are one of the lucky guy.
One day i will also be visiting those places, no doubt this is nice to see things in real.
Your no. 1 fan.
WAQAS
This is so cool. Have fun, Harsh!
Really exclusive pictures of google office. I am going enroll for digital marketing from coursera. I think compare to other online institute fees is low. Also Syllabus is heavy. Thanks Harsh.
I really enjoyed your post Harsh!!! I know you are very happy because your dream come true. As an online marketer, every individual have dream to visit Google office. Thanks for sharing your visit pics with us.
Harsh, That is really amazing and inspiring. You are living your life break free..
I hope every blogger, internet entrepreneur can fulfill his or her dream and living like a free bird.
Hope to see some more pics.
Thanks for sharing