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>Isn't Google worried that among the people it lays off (or fails to hire) there's someone who will finally conjure up a company that finally effectively takes
by ActorNightly 4y ago
>Isn't Google worried that among the people it lays off (or fails to hire) there's someone who will finally conjure up a company that finally effectively takes marketshare from AdWords or Ad Exchange or whatever?
From my experience working at FAANG, most of the developers working at these companies are the same skill as anywhere else, they just managed to pass the interview by studying and prepping for it slightly more than the other guy
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoYes and no. When I was there I met a lot of very smart people -- much smarter than me-- but they were mostly employed doing really boring work. I look at the academic and work resumes of some of the people I used to work with and they're very impressive. The work they were doing was mostly of the "take proto from here and shove it over there" variety. The really useful people at Google were the SREs. In any case, its beside the point. The distribution of quality of the talent doesn't so much matter as the fact that Google & others wanted to hoard it all.