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Getting Hired: How to Score a Job at Google X, the Secret Lab Behind Glass and Self-Driving Cars - Core77

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This post is part of our Getting Hired interviews, in which we solicited job-seeking advice from key hiring personnel at LUNAR, IDEO, Philips, BMW Group Designworks USA, Smart Design, frog, Google X, Ziba and Teague. Earlier this month, Core77 ran an exclusive look at the design team behind Google X, the semi-secret lab responsible for Glass, self-driving cars, stratospheric Internet balloons and other projects they won't tell anyone about. As we described in that story, X is actively looking for new design talent—so as part of our ongoing Getting Hired series, we wanted to provide some job-seeking advice for readers who think they have what it takes to work in Google's "moonshot factory." For that, we turned to Ricardo Prada, who leads X's central user-experience team, which essentially incubates new projects. Prada and his researchers crystallize concepts, design early prototypes and test products with real users as soon as possible. As a hiring manager, Prada also negotiates resourc

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