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by aiiane 13y ago
Google has long since implemented other measures to safeguard against internal bad actors.
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by aiiane 13y ago
SWEs are responsible for the problems they create - if it's a problem with the code, we'll just send the problem their way with instructions on how to go about fixing it. If a service causes too many problems, we'll hand it b
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by aiiane 13y ago
Semi-circle = issue is not fully resolved yet.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Er, it's not like she's anonymously accusing them. They can confront her any time they want.
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by aiiane 13y ago
The process itself is essentially identically whether you're on the SRE-SE or SRE-SWE track. The specific topic areas focused on will vary slightly, but the process is the same. (SE = Systems Engineering, SWE = Software Engineering. Pe
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by aiiane 13y ago
Something that not many people realize: interviewing is a skill that can be practiced and directly improved. The more interviews you do, the easier they get. You can also do dry runs - even just grabbing yourself a small 20" whiteboard
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by aiiane 13y ago
The "crazy questions" there are completely wrong - Google interviews do not contain questions like these (and any interviewer that tried to use them would be run out on a rail).
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by aiiane 13y ago
Sometimes that does happen - interviewers can always provide feedback that they think someone should be jumped over to a different track and re-interviewed.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Got it in one.
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by aiiane 13y ago
3 weeks, eh? Shucks, I won't be teaching your orientation class. Should have started this coming week instead. :P
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by aiiane 13y ago
Another Google SRE chiming in here... there's a reason why I swear half of the flat vertical surfaces in our office are whiteboards. Including some of the walls. I'd estimate that no more than 50% of job is spent coding, if that.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Reading is a good place to start. Find places where people describe their system architecture, and work your way through it, trying to understand why they make the choices they do. If you come across concepts you're not familiar with
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by aiiane 13y ago
Randomness is a factor whenever you have social interaction; as it turns out, people are subjective to the core. Trying to gauge someone's ability to deliver results is educated guesswork at best. You can only be so objective about it;
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by aiiane 13y ago
No, not really.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Unfortunately there's still stuff there when viewed from a Google IP - http://i.imgur.com/59qW1EM.png (Source: I'm currently at my desk, at Google.)
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by aiiane 13y ago
Some interesting numbers: $ wc -l domains.txt 2024 $ grep -Ev "(ing|s|ed|ly|est|ier)$" domains.txt | wc -l 127 $ grep -E "^.{1,7}$" domains.txt | wc -l 119 $ grep -E "^.{1,7}$" dom
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by aiiane 13y ago
A period as last name is the way to enter a mononym of Google+, hence why that is supported. (The period will be dropped when the name is displayed.)
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by aiiane 13y ago
How does {1:"A"}+{} = {1:"A"} imply that {} is no longer a zero value? 1+0=1 makes total sense...
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by aiiane 13y ago
A lot of people use 'majority' when they mean 'plurality'.
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by aiiane 13y ago
Side by side diffs, automatic integration, transactional commenting (queue up a bunch of comments, then publish them with a single notification to the patch writer), enforcement of LGTMs, better visualization of the evolution of a patch, be
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by aiiane 13y ago
Regarding your desire for the Chromecast to have a webcam hookup - one factor that might play into why it doesn't is that in general encoding video is somewhat more computationally expensive than decoding it.
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by aiiane 13y ago
It's not just hardware support, though - it's service support. Unlike a Macbook, which doesn't rely on Apple services to function, this system is built on top of the Hangouts service.
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by aiiane 13y ago
It's only mentioned briefly in the blog post, but one of the biggest wins with this system (and the aspect that I absolutely love when using it internally at Google) is the simplicity of screen sharing into a meeting. Anyone who wants
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by aiiane 13y ago
As someone who uses GVC (Google's internal version of this system), it's not an issue.
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by aiiane 13y ago
This is very much a business-focused product. (Also, really? You think AdWords and AdSense are created for the average consumer?)
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by aiiane 13y ago
You don't pay a yearly maintenance for any of them because if they break, you're going to have to fix them yourself. Most companies prefer to actually have a support plan, because if they don't, the alternative is to pay thei
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by aiiane 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by aiiane 13y ago
The $250/year is for support and maintenance.
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GitHub for recruiters(medium.com)
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by aiiane 13y ago
If you're not charging them for the service, you probably don't need to care.

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