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> Google and other big tech companies use these criteria to filter people out at the hiring stage, but the vast majority of work has nothing to do with any of t
by marta_morena_91 6y ago
> Google and other big tech companies use these criteria to filter people out at the hiring stage, but the vast majority of work has nothing to do with any of this stuff.
Yes, because at Google & Co. you actually NEED this stuff. I am not sure there is a day going by where being strong in math and computer science isn't immensely helpful for my job.
The problem is: All other companies immitate Google, not only through interviews, but also by copying their "scalability" which is completely crazy. For instance relational databases are perfectly fine for like 99% of companies. Single servers would probably work well for another 90% of companies. Monoliths instead of micro services would work well for 90% of companies... It's crazy.
- sidlls 6y agoAt Google & Co. you might need this stuff, but 99.9% of the other engineers at Google & Co. don't. Source: me, as I work at "& Co.", who employs numerous ex-Google staff, and have friends in other "& Co."s, etc. What Google & Co.'s engineers do is gatekeep. Sometimes it's out of ignorance, sometimes out of inappropriate generalization of their roles to others, and sometimes out of a deep angst caused by working in roles that effectively make almost all their CS-specific trivia next to useless in practice.