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Do you wonder whether he is a reliable narrator?
by gefh 8y ago
Do you wonder whether he is a reliable narrator?
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoI don’t, but it’s fair to ask. He was unequivocally the best senior manager I’ve worked with. Extremely technically smart but skilled at letting people under him work autonomously, good communicator, cared a lot about pushing best practices past bureaucratic barriers. His description of Google made it seem like it had the same dysfunction every place has. And the monorepo was a totally mundane, garden variety eyesore kind of in-house framework that you’ll find anywhere. I think he recognized the usefulness of just working with it and picking battles. He was just dumbfounded that any outsider would see the monorepo project and think it possibly had any relevance for anyone else. It was just a Google-history-specific frankenstein sort of thing that got wrangled with tooling later. The supposed benefits are all just retrofitted on.