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So, who's the new 'Google' now?
by vadym909 8y ago
So, who's the new 'Google' now?
- mehrdada 8y agoOne should start their own if they can't identify one, I'd say...
- ilovecaching 8y agoFacebook, Google, Apple, and Netflix still have some of the best talent in the bay. They also push out a lot of amazing projects (PyTorch, React, Go, Chromium, Tensorflow), although Netflix much less so. At the end of the day they have the money, and they do provide ridiculous perks.
- ronilan 8y ago> They also push out a lot of amazing projects ... although Netflix much less so. Actually Netflix much more so, only their projects are not in software. Just sayin.
- onion2k 8y agoBut you will only ever be a tiny part of those big projects. If you want big challenges or big recognition perhaps a smaller startup will make you happier...
- baccheion 8y agoIn all likelihood you won't even work on any of those projects.
- nambit 8y agoNot necessarily. You can go to a team that works on a tiny part or you can go to a team that affects the entire company. You'd be surprised how few people want to work on the latter. Especially because the tiny parts are usually new press release type "fancy" stuff and not boring things like build systems, security, etc.
- coldcode 8y agoEver use Xcode on a day to day basis? Clearly not the best talent there.
- ilikerashers 8y agoNetflix have Chaos Monkey, Spinnaker and Jaeger. Maybe not industry leading but still better than Apple.
- poooogles 8y agoJaeger is Uber.
- ilikerashers 8y agoYou're correct there. My bad.
- skj 8y agoGoogle has quite a large team working on Spinnaker as well (sibling to my own team).
- jxub 8y agoAlso, Hystrix, Eureka, and other JVM microservicey packages.
- shemnon42 8y agoCrypto/blockchain and decentralized companies in their various forms. People say it's garbage but they also said that about search engine advertising too.
- Moodles 8y agoPeople also call garbage garbage. Sometimes they're right.
- bsaul 8y agoI was just like you until a few months ago, when i got really interested in the technical aspect of DLT. Don’t let the digital currency scam blind you : there are some really really interesting things going on in that field.
- spaceandshit 8y agoAny example companies or products you'd recommend looking at?
- bsaul 8y agohedera hashgraph papers and founder talks (you should find them on youtube) made me realize some real people were working on solving real world issues, and not just scam people.
- Moodles 8y agoI had a job in a company obsessed with DLT. I didn’t see anything useful. In fact I’d go as far to suggest that the only use of a blockchain is in cryptocurrency. What have you seen which suggests otherwise?
- bsaul 8y agoMaybe you’ve got more insights on the subject since you’ve actually had a job on the tech, but it seems that « private » DLTs , or « b2b » dlts could have some applications where competitors need to share and persist information. Another is with all systems taking the roles traditionnally filled with state actors ( registers of some sorts). But you’re right, so far no « killer app » has been found. That’s what makes it interesting today, imho. edit : to answer your question more precisely, a talk by one of hedera founder to a university class was eye opening to me ( here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQkag6VOo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQkag6VOo0)
- confounded 8y ago‘Google’ when? The game done changed.
- tinkerteller 8y agoNot in a exciting place although probably better than rest of the big 5. The main issue is focus moving off from engineering to quarterly results and lot more non-technical people telling engineers what they need to do. Projects gets cut or severely underfunded until they die. No new ambition moonshots (they are all supposed to happen in other Alphabet company). People have learned to game the interviews so real quality is downhill. Also CEO-of-CEO is basically all but checked out and other “CEOs” are not as visionaries, bold, risk takers and obviously not as empowered.
- not_real_acct 8y agoIn my opinion, the market must crash before we'll know who "the next Google" is. For instance, Amazon and Google became huge between 2000 and 2005. That was a stretch of time when great engineers were a dime a dozen. Tons of dot coms had cratered, and Sun Microsystems was circling the drain. That created a huge pool of educated talent, eager to be hired. That situation doesn't exist any longer.