One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
The irony is that Google is using page speed metrics to measure "quality of websites", resulting in improving your SERP positioning - For then to create a CAPTCHA library that blocks for 3 seconds, and downloads itself multiple times
At big bureaucracies, the left hand doesn't know or care what the right hand is doing
I know. The last 5 to 10 years, there's been a significant degrading of Google's products, to the point where they're almost useless now. Try adding an SMTP email to your Google Business Suite account. I spent 3 hours trying to do it, and I couldn't figure it out ...
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Look at their hiring process.
To go to Google you have to be willing to waste a lot of time in their process, memorize the "groking the coding interview" book and plant red black trees in a Google docs.
At some point if you hire like, you get lots of people good at doing those things, which is not the same as people you would need to maintain products well
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
At big bureaucracies, the left hand doesn't know or care what the right hand is doing
I know. The last 5 to 10 years, there's been a significant degrading of Google's products, to the point where they're almost useless now. Try adding an SMTP email to your Google Business Suite account. I spent 3 hours trying to do it, and I couldn't figure it out ...
Look at their hiring process.
To go to Google you have to be willing to waste a lot of time in their process, memorize the "groking the coding interview" book and plant red black trees in a Google docs.
At some point if you hire like, you get lots of people good at doing those things, which is not the same as people you would need to maintain products well
I remember when the used to be "the cool guys", back in the days - No more ... :/
Absolutely, it was my dream company, that's why I don't hold my punches