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I'd never be good enough to be a Googler. It's because of 2 things: 1) I graduated from college long time ago, and have worked in a BigCorp for 6+ years, where
by AznHisoka 13y ago
I'd never be good enough to be a Googler. It's because of 2 things:
1) I graduated from college long time ago, and have worked in a BigCorp for 6+ years, where the toughest technical problem all center around CRUD, nothing that requires any deep algorithmic, machine learning, or NLP techniques (ala building a search engine).
2) During my free time, I hack on my startup, and although the problems are more challenging, I tend not to spend too much time trying to optimize things, or come up with the most efficient, elegant solutions because of time constraints. I just ask myself: is this good enough and move on. Because of this, I develop bad habits that would never be allowed in Google.
- victor9000 13y agoI'd much rather have someone on my team who knows how to get shit done. optimizing in a vacuum is easy.
- tomkarlo 13y agoWhen you're trying to build services for hundreds of millions of people, optimizing gets pretty key, and it's often the harder part than building a MVP or "getting shit done". Ask Twitter.
- AznHisoka 13y agoThat's true. It's often the hardest part if your service isn't really anything technically groundbreaking (ie Twitter, Facebook as opposed to Google)
- rlu 13y agoMaybe you're right and maybe you're wrong - but I certainly hope that this thought hasn't prevented you from applying. Can't win if you don't play :)
- enraged_camel 13y ago>>Can't win if you don't play :) Actually, considering the horror stories we have heard about Google's hiring process, it might be more appropriate to say: "the only winning move is not to play."
- Roboprog 13y agoZing, wargamer!
- Arelius 13y agoI'd never be able to be a Googler either, for nearly the opposite reason: I left College a long time ago for a job. I have since spent 8+ years working on tough problems that are highly algorithmic, and tons of optimization work. Yet the lack of college is a deal breaker AFAICT.