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I had an on-site with Google last year and didn't quite make it in. Since then I've noticed HN has an aggressively negative opinion on Google's general affairs

I had an on-site with Google last year and didn't quite make it in. Since then I've noticed HN has an aggressively negative opinion on Google's general affairs, and most of it makes sense on the surface. It almost feels like I dodged a bullet. But comments like these shine a completely different perspective. The OP's story is extremely frustrating but it doesn't seem to stem from a lack of care, in your eyes. If someone were really motivated to solve problems in that area, do you really feel they would be given the time to explore it? I get the impression these sort of projects would be underprioritized.

londons_explore 7y ago
> If someone were really motivated to solve problems in that area, do you really feel they would be given the time to explore it? Yes. Beware though - some parts of the issue might be more political rather than technical (eg. Team A wants user accounts banned for violating XYZ policy, while Team B has other data which shows those user accounts aren't bad, but can't share the data with Team A because that violates privacy terms). For issues that are purely technical (for example, the automated spam detection system has a false positive on an obscure but legit library), any Google employee can send a pull request to fix it, and in general your pull request will be accepted and deployed.
- master-litty 7y ago
  Could I ask you some more questions about day-to-day Google over email? It's wonderful to hear about.