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This makes me even more incredulous than the GP commenter. How did people who "read /etc/password from disk on every file access." get hired by Google? Or per
by gspetr 3y ago
This makes me even more incredulous than the GP commenter.
How did people who "read /etc/password from disk on every file access." get hired by Google?
Or perhaps the right question is for which roles, because with that level of DS&A they shouldn't have passed Google's DS&A whiteboard interview.
- ericbarrett 3y agoI think you give the whiteboard far too much credit. In the succeeding two decades I have worked at many companies filled with past, present, and future FAANG engineers, and I can definitely say knowledge of algorithms isn’t a defense against writing silly bugs when implementing a complex, novel project from scratch. Just a dumb oversight that would have been caught quickly by user reports—had all the engineers who cared not quit from misanthropic management. There were many such issues, and I only remember these two because I found them myself. I was in support and only had two good resources for tracking this kind of stuff down, a burnt out but kind SCSI specialist and a brilliant, massively overworked Russian kernel dev on visa. They both lasted an extra year. Bless them both for answering my pestering questions, I learned a lot. Good times, but all this was about a year too late to make a difference, then the Great Recession hit and it was done.
- me_me_me 3y agogoogle hires 27k devs (as per google search) Do you honestly think all 27k devs are 10x certified geniuses?