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In the heyday of Bell Labs and PARC, AT&T still had plenty of linemen and operators, and Xerox had toner salespeople and service technicians.
by ihnorton 13y ago
In the heyday of Bell Labs and PARC, AT&T still had plenty of linemen and operators, and Xerox had toner salespeople and service technicians.
- kyllo 13y agoThis analogy doesn't work because Google is extremely selective and hires for "cream of the crop" CS graduates who can pass an algorithms/data structures whiteboard coding gauntlet, as well as highly accomplished/experienced engineers who have made already made huge contributions at other companies or in open source. When you hire people like that, you have to give them hard, interesting problems to work on, or they're going to be bored.