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"Why not follow one of these paths curated by university computer science faculty and Google engineers?" The fact that Google equates their engineers with univ

"Why not follow one of these paths curated by university computer science faculty and Google engineers?" The fact that Google equates their engineers with university faculty is either incredibly delusional or arrogant.

jsolson 8y ago
Google employs a non-trivial number of former university faculty as engineers...
- joshuamorton 8y ago
  And a nontrivial number of current university faculty. (Fei-Fei Li recently left, as a notable example, and I can name 3-4 profs from my alma mater who are also employed at Google in various capacities)
  - jsolson 8y ago
    Indeed, and even stranger arrangements. I know one professor who comes to work for us every summer (with hilarious HR boundary condition consequences every year).
  - saagarjha 8y ago
    And I’m sure this is true of any large university with a competitive computer science program.
oculusthrift 8y ago
why? university faculty isn’t all that impressive? they are usually just people who made the choice to stay in school longer while others wanted to do something useful right away. many google engineers are phds. but once again this doesn’t mean anything