Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.

As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.