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Google internally has a kind of cultural belief that the company’s engineers are far more capable than most engineers in the rest of the world. It’s fairly arro
by sulam 5y ago
Google internally has a kind of cultural belief that the company’s engineers are far more capable than most engineers in the rest of the world. It’s fairly arrogant, but some of it is founded on some real advantages around tooling and systems engineering.
- magicalist 5y agoYoutube was like 10 people at the time, so it's not ridiculous given they had the rest of Google's infrastructure to fall back on. Still wasn't sufficient, though :)
- sangnoir 5y agoIIRC, in that time-frame, Google had (one of) the highest revenue per engineer in the world- arrogant or not, they had good reasons for their self-belief.
- sulam 5y agoSo did SGI.