I opened this document expecting to have my mind expanded by learning about amazing new techniques for high-level software engineering. I was disappointed. A lo

I opened this document expecting to have my mind expanded by learning about amazing new techniques for high-level software engineering. I was disappointed. A lot of it just seems to be about release engineering. Yeah, sure, release engineering is really hard and important for a company like Google, but it's of limited general interest. I was particularly disappointed by Google's indifference to the use of smarter languages than the Big 5 (C++, Java, Python, etc). As an example of something that did expand my repertoire as a software engineer, check out this article by Jane Street: https://blog.janestreet.com/testing-with-expectations/ https://blog.janestreet.com/testing-with-expectations/