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Personal story from ex-Googler: after getting exasperated at yet one more internal tool launched with great fanfare and almost no testing, let alone documentati
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Personal story from ex-Googler: after getting exasperated at yet one more internal tool launched with great fanfare and almost no testing, let alone documentation, I suggested to the Internal Tools group that we have a contest for BEST internal tool.
Not "worst" since that would be too hurtful. The hope was to recognize excellence, motivate people to be better, and maybe shame the people whose tools received no votes. This suggestion was summarily dismissed.
There were, indeed, some truly excellent tools: Dremel comes to mind. And lots of tools that were nearly unusable.