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I had the impression that Google was engineer oriented but I wonder if this is still the case with their recent refocus into a small number of key products. Wi
by hkmurakami 13y ago
I had the impression that Google was engineer oriented but I wonder if this is still the case with their recent refocus into a small number of key products.
With that in light, how would we (to the best of our knowledge) characterize some of the big/promitent software players? (FB, GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NFLX, RAX, DBOX, etc.)
- acchow 13y ago> small number of key products. Are we thinking of the same Google? Google has gotten its hands on everything from niche programming languages to web browser to computer vision and neural networks. This, of course, in addition to its traditional strengths in search, distributed databases, and infrastructure. Yes, they are still an engineering company. Watch the I/O keynote. They are deeply vested in various areas of computer science, machine learning, and distributed systems.
- orangethirty 13y agoYes, Google is still very engineering oriented. No questions about that. It is also one of their issues. They struggle to market products. Facebook on the other hand, is good at marketing products, and is also good at engineering (not as good as Google though). Though Im not saying Google engineers are better than Facebook's. It is the focus of management towards engineering thats different.
- Apocryphon 13y agoI wonder why AAPL isn't ever mentioned in these discussions. They may be chiefly hardware focused, but they do plenty of software.
- hkmurakami 13y agoI intentionally left them out since imo their software serves to augment their hardware and the nature of the beast seems to be a bit different from others.