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I work on developer tools at google, and it's not even remotely one of the prestigious teams. it is however the most fun and interesting time I've ever had in a

by zem 5y ago

I work on developer tools at google, and it's not even remotely one of the prestigious teams. it is however the most fun and interesting time I've ever had in a job, and if I left it would only be for the same kind of work. also you seem to have fallen for the same fallacy as the people who complain about open source devs not working on what they consider sufficiently important problems. trust me, there are no shortage of engineers willing and eager to work on end user problems, and the dev tools work enables them to deliver solutions to those problems faster, and makes those solutions work more reliably. it's a rising tide that lifts everyone's boats, not a zero sum game.

skeletonjelly 5y ago
> I work on developer tools at google, and it's not even remotely one of the prestigious teams Out of interest, what is? (In your opinion)
- zem 5y ago
  hard to say from inside the company, since you get to thinking of everyone as just colleagues who happen to be working on different parts of the system. but in terms of larger world prestige I would say the machine learning folks are definitely up there, also the internet/petabyte scale stuff that other developers know enough about the difficulties behind to be impressed by (spanner for instance), and perhaps go since it has achieved a massive amount of popularity. I honestly don't know if there are currently any end user google products "sexy" enough that working on them is extra prestigious.
  - H8crilA 5y ago
    You're missing webranking, and other core components of core products. Deciding in which order results pop up on google.com is both very challenging and we'll recognized. Same with people that do ad ranking, people that manage the enormous storage systems, etc. If it is core to the company it is prestigious, you never have to explain the impact of your job.
- ngc248 5y ago
  The core product ... which would be in this case search or the DL teams etc.

by zem 5y ago

skeletonjelly 5y ago

> I work on developer tools at google, and it's not even remotely one of the prestigious teams Out of interest, what is? (In your opinion)

zem 5y ago
hard to say from inside the company, since you get to thinking of everyone as just colleagues who happen to be working on different parts of the system. but in terms of larger world prestige I would say the machine learning folks are definitely up there, also the internet/petabyte scale stuff that other developers know enough about the difficulties behind to be impressed by (spanner for instance), and perhaps go since it has achieved a massive amount of popularity. I honestly don't know if there are currently any end user google products "sexy" enough that working on them is extra prestigious.
- H8crilA 5y ago
  You're missing webranking, and other core components of core products. Deciding in which order results pop up on google.com is both very challenging and we'll recognized. Same with people that do ad ranking, people that manage the enormous storage systems, etc. If it is core to the company it is prestigious, you never have to explain the impact of your job.
ngc248 5y ago
The core product ... which would be in this case search or the DL teams etc.