Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Deedy Das is a founding engineer at Glean, an enterprise search startup. Previously, he was a Tech Lead at Google Search working on query understanding and the sports product in New York, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore. Before that, he was an engineer at Facebook New York and graduated from Cornell University. Outside of work, Deedy writes on his blog. He published a viral resume template and his work on exposing grading flaws in the Indian education system. He also enjoys running marathons, road cycling, and playing cricket. Today we’ll talk about the search projects he worked on at Google, why he left Google, his current work at Glean, and his thoughts on whether Google is doomed because of ChatGPT. If you enjoy the show, subscribe to the channel and leave a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.
Deedy's Twitter: twitter.com/debarghya_das?s=20
Daliana's Twitter: twitter.com/DalianaLiu
Daliana's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:52 What is search
00:04:33 Query understanding
00:12:46 Google vs ChatGPT
00:18:24 Fixing bug for Sundar Pichai
00:27:33 Why he left google
00:30:32 How to get into search
00:34:38 Enterprise search at Glean
00:46:55 Advice for people who got laid off
00:48:41 What do search engineers do
00:51:37 How he evaluates candidates
00:53:58 Future of search
00:57:16 Why the web is declining
00:59:25 Copilot and AI-powered developer tools
01:03:46 Indian startup ecosystem
01:07:45 India vs Silicon Valley
01:09:48 How he grew 30k followers on Twitter
01:13:28 Daliana and Deedy’s challenge with social media
01:19:31 Career mistakes he made
Deedy Das is a founding engineer at Glean, an enterprise search startup. Previously, he was a Tech Lead at Google Search working on query understanding and the sports product in New York, Tel Aviv, and Bangalore. Before that, he was an engineer at Facebook New York and graduated from Cornell University. Outside of work, Deedy writes on his blog. He published a viral resume template and his work on exposing grading flaws in the Indian education system. He also enjoys running marathons, road cycling, and playing cricket. Today we’ll talk about the search projects he worked on at Google, why he left Google, his current work at Glean, and his thoughts on whether Google is doomed because of ChatGPT. If you enjoy the show, subscribe to the channel and leave a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on dalianaliu.com for more on data science.
Deedy's Twitter: twitter.com/debarghya_das?s=20
Daliana's Twitter: twitter.com/DalianaLiu
Daliana's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:52 What is search
00:04:33 Query understanding
00:12:46 Google vs ChatGPT
00:18:24 Fixing bug for Sundar Pichai
00:27:33 Why he left google
00:30:32 How to get into search
00:34:38 Enterprise search at Glean
00:46:55 Advice for people who got laid off
00:48:41 What do search engineers do
00:51:37 How he evaluates candidates
00:53:58 Future of search
00:57:16 Why the web is declining
00:59:25 Copilot and AI-powered developer tools
01:03:46 Indian startup ecosystem
01:07:45 India vs Silicon Valley
01:09:48 How he grew 30k followers on Twitter
01:13:28 Daliana and Deedy’s challenge with social media
01:19:31 Career mistakes he made
