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Welcome to the Xoogler club :D. Just curious what areas did you work in, generally speaking? I never saw a line of Go in close to three years working around the
by Wonnk13 5y ago
Welcome to the Xoogler club :D. Just curious what areas did you work in, generally speaking? I never saw a line of Go in close to three years working around the Ads products.
Obviously it's a massive company and I saw maybe 5% of it, but I joke with my friends that I had to leave goog to get real exposure to Go and borg/k8s.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoI've been through all sorts of PAs (including ads in my first two years). And yes, I only really saw Go in my last year here, working in Core. I transferred from Nest/Hardware because WFH was too difficult for that kind of work (hardware devices), and I wanted to get back into Google3 so I could be more productive. And it so happened the codebase I landed in was Go. I mean, it's been mostly tolerable, but it's also just... not good honestly. And yes, I do think generally Go is used more outside Google than it is inside. It's not a language made for Google -- despite what Pike is saying -- it's a language made by some people who happen to work at Google to scratch an itch they've had since they worked at Bell Labs.