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He certainly has the reputation. Are there any stories of people who've worked with him in person floating around (sans Chuck Norris jokes)? Would be curious to
by aje403 9y ago
He certainly has the reputation. Are there any stories of people who've worked with him in person floating around (sans Chuck Norris jokes)? Would be curious to read. Have seen stories of Carmack and guys like that have cemented the legend.
- emtel 9y agoA former co-worker of mine was Jeff Dean's "mentor" at (I think) mysimon.com, where Jeff worked before google. He said that when Jeff started, he showed him how to check out code, and then basically just listened to Jeff typing furiously for about 6 weeks. Then, he gave a presentation to the eng team that was basically like "Ok I sped up the system by 20x, here's how." Then he quit and went to google.
- kolpa 9y agoJeff Dean was at MySimon for 6 months: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-dean-2#section-jobs https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-dean-2#section-jobs Looks as though he got curious about the startup world after DEC, and MySimon had nothing to suit his ambitions.
- emtel 9y agoAh, ok, 6 months then.