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Checkout is a really good example of a
really diverse team.
There's an office in Mountain View, one in New York, us in
London, guys out in India.
And it's really cool, because you get to meet people from
different backgrounds, different cultures.
And of course there's the cool side of things in that you get
to go out and meet them as well, so you get to go to all
these cool places.
But it's nice to work in a team that's located
all over the place.
Because you get different sort of inputs from different
people because they have a completely different
background and culture to bring to the product.
Well, just in London alone, there are three
of us on the project.
There's Mara who's Spanish, Michael who's
German, and I'm Malaysian.
So at one point we were designing a user interface
flow-- so it's a user-facing product.
And Michael might say something like, oh, you should
do it this way.
And I'll be like oh no, if you were to bring this to Malaysia
this would never work because it's just not the sort of
thing that people like doing.
What it really means is when you're designing, because you
have all this input from so many people, we can design
into the product early on the sort of issues that we might
encounter rather than later on when we're actually having
studies done.
My name is Li-Wei Lee, I'm a software
engineer with Google Checkout.