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Google is a multinational technology company known for its internet search engine. It processes nearly 70% of the world's search queries and Android powers 80% of smartphones. More than 90% of Google's revenue comes from advertising. The document discusses Google's Software Engineers for Technical Infrastructure in Los Angeles, whose mission is to develop, protect, and maintain systems behind Google services like Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Android. It also faces challenges like speech recognition and natural language processing that remain unsolved. The gap analysis table compares job requirements to the applicant's skills, interests, and background, identifying areas of high and fair interest but also gaps in experience creating new designs and architectures for large-scale systems.

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Gap Analysis

Google is a multinational technology company known for its internet search engine. It processes nearly 70% of the world's search queries and Android powers 80% of smartphones. More than 90% of Google's revenue comes from advertising. The document discusses Google's Software Engineers for Technical Infrastructure in Los Angeles, whose mission is to develop, protect, and maintain systems behind Google services like Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Android. It also faces challenges like speech recognition and natural language processing that remain unsolved. The gap analysis table compares job requirements to the applicant's skills, interests, and background, identifying areas of high and fair interest but also gaps in experience creating new designs and architectures for large-scale systems.

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Carol Lee
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ENGL2116
SkillGapAnalysis
CompanyAnalysis
GoogleisamultinationalmultiproductcorporationknownforitsInternetsearchengine.The
Internetisone,ifnot,thebiggestfastestformsofcommunicationweuseintodayssociety.Itisusedto
connectpeoplefromanywhereintheword.OneofthebiggestsearchenginetoolstodayisGoogle.At
Google,theSoftwareEngineersaretheKingsoverthehill.Therearemanydifferentlocationsallover
Americatobetterserveitsconsumer.GooglesSoftwareEngineersforTechnicalInfrastructuresinLos
Angelesmainmissionistoprogress,protect,andprovideforthesoftwareandsystemsbehindall
Googlespublicservices,suchas,Search,Ads,Gmail,Android,YouTube,andAppEngine.Thisposition
isanunusualjob,likeanyothertraditionaloperationsgroups,Googlekeepimportant,revenuecritical
systemsupandrunningdespitehurricanes,bandwidthoutages,andconfigurationissues.Googlestrives
forsimplicityandhideitscomplexityofsearchbehindablandandsimpleinterfacesopeoplecanuseit
andgettothepoint.BaseoftheSWOTAnalysisofGoogleInc,twocorestrengthsatGoogleistheir
searchengine,whichprocessesnearly70%oftheworldsqueriesandAndroidpowersnearly80%of
smartphonesworldwide.Googlesgreateststrengthisalsoitsbiggestweakness.Morethan90%ofits
revenuescomefromadvertisement.Googletriestoloweradswhiletheuserbrowseforanything.Also,
oneoftheirweaknessesis:themoreusers,themorethreats.Googletriestheirbesttodecreasethese
threatsbycreatingfirewallsfortheusersownsaftety.AccordingtoFrobes,Googleisthedominant
playerintheInternetsearchandoneofthemostimportanttechnologycompaniesbutstillfacesmajor
challenges.FourtechnicalchallengesthatGooglefaceare:speechrecognition,naturallanguage
understanding,understandingconversation,andtheknowledgegraph.Thesefourmainareasareissues
that,despiteGooglesenhancements,arestillnotsolved.
GapAnalysisTable
JobRequirement
Design,writeand
deliversoftwareto
improvethe
availability,scalability,
latency,andefficiency
ofGooglesservices
Solveproblemsrelating
tomissioncritical
servicesandbuild
automationtoprevent
problemrecurrence

Skills
Ihavebuiltmyown
kernelsforandroidand
createrootaccessfor2
4years.

Interest
HighInterest

Background
Built23kernalsfor
Androidphonetorun
differentlyfromstock
mod.

Experiencestoevaluate
informationandbreak
themdownintotheir
keycomponents.Have
analyticalabilityand
lateralthinking

HighInterest

Goodenoughto
succeed,23years
knowledge

Influenceandcreate
newdesigns,
architectures,standards
andmethodsforlarge
scaledistributed
systems.
Conductperiodicon
calldutiesusinga
followthesunmodel.

Doesnothavemuch
experiencestocreate
newmethods,butdo
havesomeknowledge
recentlybecauseof
coursescurrently
taking.
Previousjob,Ihave
basicknowledgeand
willingtolearnmore
andupforchallenges
comingmyway.

FairInterest

1year

HighInterest

Currentjob,Ifacenew
challengeseveryday.

AddressingtheGaps
Tostrengthenmyletterofapplication,Iwouldneedtoapplymoreofmyskillsandknowledge.State
moreofmystrengthsandhowitwillbenefitnotonlymebutthecompanytoo.Showhowdedicatedand
desperateIamforthispositionandhowIcanapplymyexperiencesintoit.

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