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>Funny thing is, even though the top dogs in China got the best talented engineers in the entire nation, their public-facing products are still nothing but tras
by tester34 5y ago
>Funny thing is, even though the top dogs in China got the best talented engineers in the entire nation, their public-facing products are still nothing but trash (or even fruaddy). And as for those engineers, many of them has their own big dreams, but they cannot realize it because the market is a highly restricted blood sea.
How so? when it comes to scale they easily compete with FAANG, don't they?
Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Bytedance...?
- CoolGuySteve 5y agoSomeone just released a product that offloads Chrome to the cloud. Gmail has a very long loading screen. Hangouts was replaced by something like 4 incompatible apps. Android phones are significantly less power efficient than iPhones. YouTube copyright notices are trivial to game. Google’s software over the past 10 years or so leaves a lot to be desired and they’re the worst offender for filtering by leetcode-style interviews.
- xibalba 5y agoThis could be explained by failures of management in addition to or as opposed to the ability of technical individual contributors.
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoI think you and the parent and the grandparent are in agreement.