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I used to work at Google, and I find the tooling much better on the outside. Heroku is much better than Google's deployment tool; Github is much better than the
by mepiethree 7y ago
I used to work at Google, and I find the tooling much better on the outside. Heroku is much better than Google's deployment tool; Github is much better than their review tool.
The only things I miss are the snacks and the searchable codebase
- devicetray0 7y ago> and the searchable codebase Do you mean that you'd search Google's entire codebase monorepo for code examples, or that there was a better, searchable code snippet tool internally?
- ertemplin 7y agoNot sure about google, but most of the big tech companies have a code browser website with a search feature that shows the most "relevant" repositories first in the search results. For example, repositories that people in your team or org have recently modified will show up near the top of the results.
- paulgb 7y ago> Do you mean that you'd search Google's entire codebase monorepo for code examples As another former Googler, yes, searching the entire monorepo was a frequent occurrence. Internal code search is pretty good (it's a search company, after all) but I have to say that I don't miss it so much now that Sourcegraph exists.
- hinkley 7y agoI did a short contract at Amazon (not AWS) and I couldn't get away fast enough. What a rat's nest.
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