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What product area did you work in? Google is certainly a big company and different people might have different experiences, but when I worked there (on image se
by brlewis 12y ago
What product area did you work in? Google is certainly a big company and different people might have different experiences, but when I worked there (on image search) I didn't see that sort of culture anywhere around me. It sounds like other people didn't think those lines were inconsequential.
- fishnchips 12y agoI worked in one of the infrastructure SRE teams. These four lines exposed via an RPC a certain state of the system that its internal customers often needed to know but were unable to find out on their own without specialist knowledge so they ended up filing tickets. Those four lines of code simply embedded that knowledge. I'd imagine a good analogy would be marking a private method public in an API. So in that sense those four lines were not cosmetic and they may warrant some discussion and a mgmt-level decision. But I was completely unprepared for what followed.
- fishnchips 12y agoI suppose what I'm trying to say is that the problem was obvious, the solution was obvious and whether that was the right solution to the problem could be discussed but did not require that level of decorum and could have been handled without engineers' constant involvement.