Patrick Peng

Software Engineer, Recommendations (model-based ranking) at Google

SOMA, San Francisco, CA

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- On Google's recommendations team (Posts/comments): works on comment-heart ranking and a reply-suggestion feature (choosing among ~3 candidate replies); still onboarding onto the newer project
- Says he'd rather be back at school/self-directed work; feels Google work is 'pretty cool' but not fulfilling because he doesn't strongly care about what he's building
- Contrasts Google favorably with Citadel: team is friendly, people 'know how to live,' not as cutthroat, though some colleagues still work nights/weekends
- Sometimes works weekends himself and feels he doesn't have enough separation from work or energy left for personal projects
- Uses AI coding tools for the majority of his personal coding now; still writes some production/launch-doc-adjacent code by hand
- Lives in SOMA (between a studio and 1BR), bikes to the Google SF office, commutes via Caltrain from South Bay, comes into SF mainly Mon/Fri for free food
- Climbs at Dogpatch Boulders (Touchstone) consistently, bikes there after work and gets home around 10pm
- Cooks dinner with roommate Brandon and does weekend activities together; skis/snowboards at Tahoe in winter with Google friends

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Brown University

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Interview — 2026-08-10Granola

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