> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had The f

> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had The funny thing is: "small" systems are probably not presenting problems strictly less difficult than the ones Google have. Different, with the need of caring about other abstraction, other layers, yes. It's even astonishing the author does not understand that when she writes: "I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones" -- so how is that strictly less difficult.