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Would you honestly consider working at Google to be ceteris paribus equal to working at merely a "typical" software company? There is information there. Refer t
by rw 17y ago
Would you honestly consider working at Google to be ceteris paribus equal to working at merely a "typical" software company? There is information there. Refer to what I said about false negatives versus false positives.
- jacquesm 17y agoTo reverse that, everything else being equal do you really think it matters if somebody has worked at google on some project vs someone working at say Yahoo, Microsoft, NASA or any one of a hundred other large operations writing software ? I don't buy that. There are plenty of places where you can get excellent experience relevant to solving some of those problems, not all of them are 'google'. And not all of them are big company efforts either. (though the samples listed here are). Google is a 'great' company, but they're definitely not the only game in town and I find it strange that having worked at google would be a 'pre' compared to having worked at other places. It's not like every coder/analyst at google has personal access to the whole GFS system and can work with it to their hearts content. I figure plenty of the jobs there are like every other job in industry. If you're part of the core search team that changes things, but having 'worked at google' is way too arbitrary a selection criterion.
- rw 17y agoSo, you're saying that Google, as an employer, is a member of an equivalence class of other worthwhile employers. And, knowing the name and reputation of an employer is not enough, we also need to know what the person worked on while there. I think everyone agrees with that :)