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> I have no other explanation for it (believe me, I want one) Um, the fact that that her work saved that much bandwidth is a happy accident of the fact that sh

> I have no other explanation for it (believe me, I want one) Um, the fact that that her work saved that much bandwidth is a happy accident of the fact that she was at Google and assigned on a project that had a high user volume. Other than passing the intern interview loop, that took no absolutely no merit or effort on her part whatsoever. Moreover, the blog post describes the work as "to add support for Brotli for both new app installs and app update." I mean, hundreds of thousands of developers use third-party libraries to add functionality every single day of the year. Some "achievement". Please take off the X-ism colored glasses, dajohnson89. I promise that it makes the world look like a better place.

skybrian 10y ago
It's of course true that at Google you have a chance to make a bigger impact. (Not guaranteed - it depends on what project the intern is given, and that's kind of random.) And interns do get lots of support. But, to say that there is "no merit or effort on her part" is an insult to all the good work interns do while they're here. They're not coasting. Seems like you're so eager to tear this down that you'll say anything.
- ThrowawayR2 10y ago
  Given the fact that your first paragraph says the same thing my first paragraph does, it's unclear to me what point you're trying to make. The intern in question had no part in making Google the size it is and was most likely not offered much choice in the way of team or project assigned, so no merit or effort was involved in either of the two. Which part would you like to dispute?
  - skybrian 10y ago
    I dispute the part where you say she shouldn't get any credit for her work because she did the work at Google. If you're going to make that argument, nobody at Google deserves any credit for anything we do. That's not how we normally measure impact. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, but putting those resources to work effectively still counts.

skybrian 10y ago

It's of course true that at Google you have a chance to make a bigger impact. (Not guaranteed - it depends on what project the intern is given, and that's kind of random.) And interns do get lots of support. But, to say that there is "no merit or effort on her part" is an insult to all the good work interns do while they're here. They're not coasting. Seems like you're so eager to tear this down that you'll say anything.

ThrowawayR2 10y ago
Given the fact that your first paragraph says the same thing my first paragraph does, it's unclear to me what point you're trying to make. The intern in question had no part in making Google the size it is and was most likely not offered much choice in the way of team or project assigned, so no merit or effort was involved in either of the two. Which part would you like to dispute?
- skybrian 10y ago
  I dispute the part where you say she shouldn't get any credit for her work because she did the work at Google. If you're going to make that argument, nobody at Google deserves any credit for anything we do. That's not how we normally measure impact. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, but putting those resources to work effectively still counts.