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> Didn't Google at some point decide a guy who developed a VM or interpreter or something that they were using in-house was only good enough to be a sysadmin fo
by rudedogg 5y ago
> Didn't Google at some point decide a guy who developed a VM or interpreter or something that they were using in-house was only good enough to be a sysadmin for them?
You're probably thinking of Max Howell, the maker of the Homebrew package manager.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree/answer/Max-Howell https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
- tablespoon 5y ago>> Didn't Google at some point decide a guy who developed a VM or interpreter or something that they were using in-house was only good enough to be a sysadmin for them? > You're probably thinking of Max Howell, the maker of the Homebrew package manager. My memory is very fallible, but I don't think that's it. I'm sure there are several similar incidents, and the one I'm thinking of definitely involved a sysadmin role and maybe even an offer. The issue was that the role was an insultingly bad fit, not that a talented person got rejected.