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The measure of an engineer is what he builds. There is plenty of top notch engineering going on outside Google. Think WhatsApp, CoreOS, Rust at Mozilla, Azul JV
by greenleafjacob 10y ago
The measure of an engineer is what he builds. There is plenty of top notch engineering going on outside Google. Think WhatsApp, CoreOS, Rust at Mozilla, Azul JVM, etc.
- superuser2 10y agoAFAICT no one actually believes this. There are plenty of places where building something important will get you in the door for an interview. There don't appear to be any employers that would be satisfied by track record without whiteboard performance.
- greenleafjacob 10y agoI think that is correct, that most employers today insist on the monkey show interview process. I meant it more as countering what OP said about feeling like garbage. Being a great engineer in fact (building reliable and durable systems) is at best correlated and at worst completely orthogonal to what is measured in interviews today.
- ams6110 10y agoWhen did this become a thing, and is it mostly an SV phenomenon? I've never in my life (nearly 30 years in salaried dev/tech positions) had to do whiteboard coding in a job interview.
- raverbashing 10y agoPretty much this. Google, Amazon, and other big companies are overrated You can find a lot of interesting with outside of them. Even better, innovative work is being done right now by a company you never heard about before