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Google has never been an engineering company, it's a search company with an engineering-focused culture and an ad-driven monetization model. Please don't paint
by calbear81 10y ago
Google has never been an engineering company, it's a search company with an engineering-focused culture and an ad-driven monetization model.
Please don't paint broad unsubstantiated strokes over all "non-developers and non-software engineers". You mention Facebook as an example that's not engineering focused but fail to mention that their equity structure is such that Mark Zuckerberg has control effectively through the votes his shares represent which means MZ, an engineer/hacker, is responsible for the decisions of the company.
Google is not a company whose mission it is to preserve people's privacy. They are out to solve search and organize information and in order to reach their goals, they have to find a way to attract the best talent in the world. This requires making tradeoffs in order to get the capital required to invest in changing the world in the way they think will be better.
- the_watcher 10y agoSearch is one of the most technically complex engineering problems out there. A search company is by definition an engineering company.
- candiodari 10y agoHaving worked for a company designing nuclear power plants, that was very much a financial company where even the tiny sales department had far more power than the very large engineering department ... I would disagree that complexity of a problem makes companies engineering companies. The engineers at sister companies who were working at the time on an offshore gas terminal were in the same position. Those companies are very much not engineering driven.