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ALT Day in the life: technical solutions consultant at Google
ALT After catching up with the team, I spend most mornings in a focused, heads-down work block. Today, I evaluated customer architecture requirements, reviewed technical milestones, and prepared strategic guidance to help enterprise teams modernize their infrastructure on Google Cloud.
ALT My afternoons are all about collaboration! After lunch, I met with an enterprise customer’s technical team to walk through architecture designs and answer their questions. Whenever complex edge cases arise, I bring in specialists across data and infrastructure to whiteboard solutions and pressure-test our designs.
ALT To finish the day, I jumped into another dedicated work block for hands-on problem-solving. In my role, I don't just advise — I build. I used this time to spin up proof-of-concepts in the Google Cloud Console and test workload scalability. Before wrapping up, I reviewed final deliverables, sent updates to key stakeholders, and set my priorities for tomorrow.
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ALT Research at Google: optimizing systems for peak performance
ALT "My project provides a generic framework that autonomously tunes operating system parameters for different AI workloads while optimizing critical compute resources like memory. Traditionally, kernel engineers pore over system telemetry, make initial guesses, and rely on standard statistical machine learning models to optimize parameters. This is a slow process that can lead to spiky, unstable system performance. By offloading this tuning to autonomous agents, we can implement better policies to support these workloads."
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ALT Hi! I’m Sumit, a Cloud Architect with Google Cloud’s Global Solutions Delivery (GSD) team. My role focuses on helping Google's enterprise customers design and build scalable, secure cloud and AI architecture. Here’s what a typical day looks like!
ALT My morning starts with a gCab ride into the office. While commuting, I catch up on emails and chats so I can prioritize my schedule. Once I arrive at the office, I head straight to grab coffee with my teammates, where we catch up before diving into deep work. The core of my role is about problem-solving, so I spend a large chunk of my day designing, reviewing, and implementing scalable cloud architectures for Google Cloud customers.
ALT Around mid-day, I grab lunch and a quick recharge with a friendly game of table tennis or pool with fellow Googlers. Afterwards, my afternoon is packed with collaboration. I start with an internal standup with our Google team to align on customer project deliverables, followed by an external sync with the customer’s technical team to review architecture designs, address questions, and ensure seamless execution.
ALT Towards the evening, I reserve some dedicated time for cross-functional innovation. With Google’s open engineering culture, I get to partner with teams outside my core org to build internal AI tooling and developer frameworks.
ALT Research at Google: Using AI to make smart buildings
ALT "Buildings consume a massive share of global energy and emissions, making them a prime target for efficiency. However, because every building is unique, scaling reinforcement learning has been difficult... To solve this, we use a custom open-source simulator to build an accurate digital twin of the building. We then use behavior cloning to mimic current conditions, refine it inside the digital twin to optimize both comfort and energy savings, and deploy it with built-in guardrails to ensure compliance with state regulations."
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ALT Interview tips from a former Google intern
ALT Navigate ambiguity: “In school, almost every assignment comes with a grading rubric telling you exactly how to get an A. Interning at Google is the complete opposite. You’re usually handed an open-ended goal without one ”right” answer. Interviewers want to see how you bring structure to ambiguity when there’s no tutorial to follow. In my interviews, I made sure to talk about times when my goals shifted mid-project, and how I aligned my team on a path forward.”
ALT Narrate your thoughts: “Interviewers want to hear what happens in your head when you hit a wall. I remember in my interview, I got halfway through an approach before realizing it would completely break on duplicate numbers. Instead of panicking in silence or quietly hitting backspace, I told my interviewer exactly why the solution would fail and evaluated alternatives, turning a dead end into my strongest problem-solving signal.”
ALT Be willing to learn: “A lot of intern applicants feel pressured to be experts, but nobody expects you to know everything on day one. What matters is your curiosity and how willing you are to jump into the deep end. I’ve interned on multiple teams at Google, and each experience taught me so much precisely because I went in excited to learn and ask questions. You don’t need to have it all figured out!”