[finnh]

Lot of firsts in 1999:

First dog

First chef

First non-engineering hire

First press release

First female engineer seems to be missing...

[srhngpr]

They may not have had a first female engineer, but in their first 21 employees, 6 of which were females.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-first-20-employees-wh...

[finnh]

I was making a little joke - I thought it was widely known that Marissa Mayer was Google's first female engineer.

Source: her wikipedia page, numerous articles.

[bitops]

Yeah, I was a little saddened to see that they didn't mention her - sure she went to work for the competition but it'd have been classy to mention her.