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And yet those minds managed to build the most hated frontend framework. Not just bad or mediocre. The most hated one. Now, I'm not denying they are super smart
by hbrn 4y ago
And yet those minds managed to build the most hated frontend framework. Not just bad or mediocre. The most hated one.
Now, I'm not denying they are super smart. But you need a mix of book smart and street smart to be successful. Google seems to only focus on books. They are incredible at solving problems. But they suck at picking which problems to solve.
- pb7 4y agoWhich framework are you talking about?
- hbrn 4y agohttps://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-web-frameworks https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoA front-end framework isn't exactly the kind of thing the engineers I'm talking about work on... there are 10's of thousands of engineers at Google. A good number of them aren't building systems per se. But if you want to learn how to build systems, some folks in there are crazy good.
- hbrn 4y agoMight be a bit anecdotal, but I actually hired ex-Googlers for two different startups in the past. I would be hesitant to do it again. They can indeed be good at building complex systems. But when we needed simple systems, they would still build complex systems. When we needed to ship product, they would still build complex systems. Twice I had the experience where an ex-Googler would promise to rewrite a piece of software from scratch because it had a bad architecture, only to quit/get fired few months later (obviously the big rewrite was not finished by then).
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoYup, I believe it.
- akmarinov 4y agoCome on, Flutter’s not that bad…