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Google has a standard interview process for all software engineers and afterwards you can end up either on in front-end development or back-end development. So
by arikrak 11y ago
Google has a standard interview process for all software engineers and afterwards you can end up either on in front-end development or back-end development. So they at least think specific knowledge of front-end development isn't necessary coming in.
- jaegerpicker 11y agoThat's basically how we run things at my company. I'm the front end dev manager and I make the decisions on who to hire for the team. All of my dev's have a set of skills that includes backend dev work, they are just specialists at first end customer facing applications. It's worked really well so far.
- vonmoltke 11y agoObviously it works for them, but my opinion (coming from another field of engineering) is that this is not a good general-purpose hiring strategy or a particularly good way to manage your internal teams. The field is too broad to say that an engineer with some set of fundamental knowledge can be successfully slotted into any software development position.
- darkmarmot 11y agoIt's that kind of focus on general aptitude over specialized interests and passions that produced amazing wonders like Google+.
- swang 11y agoThey now have a separate process for FE developers
- arikrak 11y agoWell they still have a standard interview process for them, but maybe there's also a separate one. I joined Google in Novmeber after their standard SE interview process, and I primarily work in FE development (Angular).