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You should replace Google with "big tech company" or FAANG to get more responses.
by zuck9 7y ago
You should replace Google with "big tech company" or FAANG to get more responses.
- mav3rick 7y agoFAANG don't share the same engineering culture.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoYes they do. In all these places except Amazon, the engineering culture is essentially identical. I’ve worked at 2 FAANG companies and a few startups that had a big influx of ex-Google engineers. In fact it’s a whole process that startups go through to copy Google: monorepo + misguided in-house tooling for it, homebrewed canary deployment strategies, naming things “mon” like “altermon” or “datamon”, etc. It’s a very miserable monoculture.
- yitchelle 7y agoThe engineering culture among FAANG companies is pretty much the same because of the industry that they operating in and the location of the HQ. Expand that to military or automotive, aerospace, in non-US companies and you might start seeing different engineering cultures.
- mav3rick 7y agoEngineering culture at Google is vastly different than Amazon. Even Facebook which is more product oriented and iterates faster than focusing on the "right engineering design" first.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoFB and Google engineering is basically identical in culture.
- mav3rick 7y agoYes because lots of Google left to join FB. And yet, I've heard everyone say in terms of pure engineering and tooling Google is far ahead. That's still F&G though not AAN.
- akhilcacharya 7y ago> Engineering culture at Google is vastly different than Amazon How so?
- yibg 7y agoI assume the two FAANG you are referring to are the F and G. The rest of the letters aren’t like that. At least no monorepo.
- saagarjha 7y agoOr "mons".
- mlazos 7y agoI agree that there are cultural differences, but culture definitely varies from team to team in any large tech company. I think a job at any of the big tech companies is interchangeable. I hear stories about learning from code reviews, maintaining build systems, and building out new cross team products at all of the big tech firms, I don’t think the lessons learned at google are particularly special.