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I’ve often wondered this myself. Google has literally thousands of engineers working on search alone. I can’t even fathom what they’re all doing. And then what

by spyspy 7y ago

I’ve often wondered this myself. Google has literally thousands of engineers working on search alone. I can’t even fathom what they’re all doing. And then what is everyone filling their time with?

ak39 7y ago
Developing Thanos snap gimmicks and other region specific Easter eggs?
- lbotos 7y ago
  As much as we joke about this, a google doodle is such a great sticky "come back and see what's new tomorrow, and while you are here, maybe search which will make us money" tactic.
throwaway55554 7y ago
Rewriting code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619378 > Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years.
skybrian 7y ago
Google builds a lot more of its own infrastructure than other companies can afford to do, all the way down to the hardware. They also change things more often internally than you will see with public-facing API's. What I'm wondering, though, is about why headcount continues to expand. Besides the new buildings in Mountain View and NYC there's a whole new campus planned in San Jose, so there are apparently no plans to slow down. Where does it end? https://medium.com/gabor/timeline-employee-count-growth-for-microsoft-yahoo-google-and-facebook-9ede22a37824 https://medium.com/gabor/timeline-employee-count-growth-for-...
- puzzle 7y ago
  The new headcount is coming from cloud. Lots of sales people in particular.
LaserToy 7y ago
Worked there, It might be that I was in a wrong place (and folks I know), but high quality standards, sometimes vague deadlines that can be moved desire to do the best thing result in a very slow dev process. I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing
- hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
  > I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing I disagree. I feel AWS definitely has more options, functionality, and better enterprise support, but in many areas GCP is much easier to manage for smaller teams. For example, if I were starting a startup, I would definitely favor GCP over AWS right now.
differentView 7y ago
They're not working for the competition.
gojomo 7y ago
Posting to HN via Tor.

by spyspy 7y ago

ak39 7y ago

Developing Thanos snap gimmicks and other region specific Easter eggs?

lbotos 7y ago
As much as we joke about this, a google doodle is such a great sticky "come back and see what's new tomorrow, and while you are here, maybe search which will make us money" tactic.

throwaway55554 7y ago

Rewriting code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619378 > Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years.

skybrian 7y ago

Google builds a lot more of its own infrastructure than other companies can afford to do, all the way down to the hardware. They also change things more often internally than you will see with public-facing API's. What I'm wondering, though, is about why headcount continues to expand. Besides the new buildings in Mountain View and NYC there's a whole new campus planned in San Jose, so there are apparently no plans to slow down. Where does it end? https://medium.com/gabor/timeline-employee-count-growth-for-microsoft-yahoo-google-and-facebook-9ede22a37824 https://medium.com/gabor/timeline-employee-count-growth-for-...

puzzle 7y ago
The new headcount is coming from cloud. Lots of sales people in particular.

LaserToy 7y ago

Worked there, It might be that I was in a wrong place (and folks I know), but high quality standards, sometimes vague deadlines that can be moved desire to do the best thing result in a very slow dev process. I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing

hn_throwaway_99 7y ago
> I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing I disagree. I feel AWS definitely has more options, functionality, and better enterprise support, but in many areas GCP is much easier to manage for smaller teams. For example, if I were starting a startup, I would definitely favor GCP over AWS right now.

differentView 7y ago

They're not working for the competition.

gojomo 7y ago

Posting to HN via Tor.