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Maybe, maybe not. Most people's surface area of problems don't even approach Google's problems. The kind of things most companies aspire to solve, Google auto
by late2part 11y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Most people's surface area of problems don't even approach Google's problems. The kind of things most companies aspire to solve, Google automated a decade ago. So, this esoteric CS theory may be more practical inside Google than your external vantage point can consider.
- cmrdporcupine 11y agoThe problems being automated years ago means the vast majority of Google engineers don't ever get close to having to work on those solutions. One of things that disappointed me after joining G was that many of the problems I found fun to solve at previous employers were a) solved already and b) solved by people much smarter and senior than me. It's a great place to work for all sorts of reasons. But working on cutting edge stuff, well, that requires that you be good at fighting on both meritocratic and political fronts. The majority of the people that came in the same acquisition as me left before their golden handcuff payouts finished, because of this.
- fritzo 11y ago"with more rules we have solved most of the problems in the world. That just leaves the weird events" -Steve Coast The remaining problems are indeed weird, and succumb only after application of every available tool: "asking around", CS theory, low-level debugging, visualization, heavy logs analysis, pouring over source code, strolling aimlessly, mining commit history, politicking, brainstorming...