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Google used to be like this, but now, though some isolated pockets remain, is not like that anymore. A good mental model of how Google internally works today is

• wnolens 4y ago
  My time at Microsoft was learning a craft from old guys who were there in "the beginning". I'm so grateful for the hours spent on a whiteboard with a patient sage explaining to me how things work. My code reviews were 10 iterations until I learned to do a better job. Very high bar. Even comments had to be full English sentences. I miss it. AWS is the opposite.
  • rochak 4y ago
    Not sure I agree with your experience at AWS. For me, my teammates have been super critical, always trying to raise the bar and looking for ways to make things better. So, all I’ll say is that it is very team specific and you can find good and bad teams at every company.