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One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google. He had designed and contributed a decent portion of the co

One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google. He had designed and contributed a decent portion of the core of the product. One of his projects for the company had about 50 stars on github. n=1

MichaelMoser123 10y ago
> One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google amazing: they spend n million dollars just to get that talented individual, and then just throw it all away. My question is how is this expense reported/justified and who gets the difference? What about shareholder value?
- corobo 10y ago
  They have many talented individuals who could probably figure out what does what with the code they just bought
thewhitetulip 10y ago
not to troll or anything but I find it utterly stupid that this is done. Also is it a big deal to have 1000 stars on a github project you run? I am curious because I do not know what the general perception is of github projects, I mean how much do they matter? I do not have a formal training on algorithms and I am studying machine learning now. Also I have a project having 200 something stars and one having 1000+ stars
- linkregister 10y ago
  1000+ stars is a pretty big deal! I imagine you could leverage this to gain software development job interviews if you were looking. Do they matter? It is just one of many metrics of how useful a repository is. I think it's one of the most public metrics that can be distilled to a single factoid on HN. There are absolutely better metrics to judge the quality of software.
  - thewhitetulip 10y ago
    Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-) https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Also I am not in US.
    - tkxxx7 10y ago
      teaching people to build web apps, especially without a framework in a language like Go, should buy you tons of leverage.
      - thewhitetulip 10y ago
        I wasn't aware of it, thank you :-)
linkregister 10y ago
I am terribly sorry. While looking up information about the company to be able to answer the reply, I couldn't find any news about its acquisition by Google. It was shuttered by its parent company and I presume a portion of the company must have been sold to Google if my colleague was being accurate. I can't edit or delete the comment. If I'm unvoted/downvoted then I certainly understand and agree! More info: he is a director for a well-used standard in the IETF, so he's no slouch.

MichaelMoser123 10y ago

> One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google amazing: they spend n million dollars just to get that talented individual, and then just throw it all away. My question is how is this expense reported/justified and who gets the difference? What about shareholder value?

corobo 10y ago
They have many talented individuals who could probably figure out what does what with the code they just bought

thewhitetulip 10y ago

not to troll or anything but I find it utterly stupid that this is done. Also is it a big deal to have 1000 stars on a github project you run? I am curious because I do not know what the general perception is of github projects, I mean how much do they matter? I do not have a formal training on algorithms and I am studying machine learning now. Also I have a project having 200 something stars and one having 1000+ stars

linkregister 10y ago
1000+ stars is a pretty big deal! I imagine you could leverage this to gain software development job interviews if you were looking. Do they matter? It is just one of many metrics of how useful a repository is. I think it's one of the most public metrics that can be distilled to a single factoid on HN. There are absolutely better metrics to judge the quality of software.
- thewhitetulip 10y ago
  Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-) https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo... Also I am not in US.
  - tkxxx7 10y ago
    teaching people to build web apps, especially without a framework in a language like Go, should buy you tons of leverage.
    - thewhitetulip 10y ago
      I wasn't aware of it, thank you :-)

linkregister 10y ago

I am terribly sorry. While looking up information about the company to be able to answer the reply, I couldn't find any news about its acquisition by Google. It was shuttered by its parent company and I presume a portion of the company must have been sold to Google if my colleague was being accurate. I can't edit or delete the comment. If I'm unvoted/downvoted then I certainly understand and agree! More info: he is a director for a well-used standard in the IETF, so he's no slouch.