YouTube

About YouTube

YouTube is an American online video-sharing and social-media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. The platform was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal, and was acquired by Google in November 2006 in a deal valued at approximately US$1.65 billion. YouTube operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC, which itself is part of Alphabet Inc. The platform allows users to upload, view, share, comment on, and rate videos, and it supports features including livestreaming, short-form Shorts videos, podcasts, music, premium subscriptions, paid memberships, and a creator-monetisation programme. YouTube is among the most-visited websites in the world and serves billions of users globally across desktop, mobile, smart-television, and gaming-console clients. YouTube is integrated with the broader Google product family, including Google search, advertising platforms, and the YouTube TV and YouTube Music services. The platform's revenue is generated primarily through advertising, with additional contributions from subscription services such as YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium and from creator and viewer transactions. Indian fresher and early-career engineering, product, and operations roles associated with YouTube are typically posted under Google's careers system because YouTube hiring runs through Google as the parent employer. Roles span software-engineer, machine-learning-engineer, user-experience-research, design, product-management, content-policy, and partnerships, sourced primarily through Google's structured campus placements and direct applications on the Google careers portal.

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