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by jfasi 9y ago
If someone builds their life and aspirations around what they read about in obvious works of fiction, we call them crazy. If someone builds their career expectations and aspirations around what they gathered from Forbes, Techcrunch, or a TE
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The author is criticizing a genre of narrative that I like to call "career porn." Consider the similarities between "how I started this company" type stories and actual porn: * It depicts something everyone fantasizes ab
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In my experience, it's not overtly enforced. At lower levels there's an expectation of growth, so not growing can be seen as triggering a "fails to meet expectations." If someone is underperforming managers start to try
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While my criticism is of a more technical nature than this, you do have a good point that this can be used as a comparative metric. This certainly has value to the marketer, but then again any number that goes up has value to a marketer, so
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by jfasi 9y ago
Downvote me if you want, but I work at Google and I can offer a counterpoint to the process presented in the article that blew up yesterday: https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/ As always, this is my single-sample per
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This is very clever from a financials analysis perspective, but I'd be careful taking it to mean anything from an end-user perspective. This can be phrased as: suppose some number of devices are in the wild at a given time. How long do
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> I doubt the Hangouts Android client needs to reinvent the wheel... This actually touches on an interesting point. My notorious interview company is Google. I'm not familiar enough with the Hangouts Android client to tell you anyth
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There's nothing broken about it. If anything, I'd say it's a great success: from the set of people I've seen, the people who don't get hired get rejected because they exhibit real deficiencies across multiple interv
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I regularly conduct interviews at one of the more infamous "whiteboard interview" companies. At the end of my interviews I like to take five to ten minutes to answer whatever questions the candidate might have about myself, the co
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Exactly. In junior interview I accept passing mentions and hand-wavey verbal solutions. What I'm referring to here is a complete absence of awareness of these things.
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First off, congrats on landing in your role! Sysadmin and development are completely different skillsets in my mind, and I have as much admiration for sysadmins as they seem to have for me. My company doesn't really do small projects a
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I should be clear, I'm not expecting someone to write up a bulletproof solution to every possible edge case on a whiteboard in 35 minutes. I expect them simply to be familiar with the things that can go wrong. Add a check at the begi
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The thing about performance is that it doesn't matter until it does. A young organization can easily get away with hiring people who don't know about or don't care about performance for years. I get it, features need to get p
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I gave a little writeup to a sibling comment, PTAL.
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Unfortunately I can't share the exact questions we ask, but here's a smattering of the sorts of pitfalls I encounter, in no particular order: * Number one is probably no Big-O performance considerations, or Big-O is an afterthough
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My two cents: simple supply and demand. The slow deflation of the startup bubble of the past five years or so has killed the junior developer. Once upon a time, there so much competition for engineering talent in the startup world that even
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It sounds like it, but in practice it’s not as onerous as you’d think. If someone’s idea of fun is to play the cowboy, the no, it’s not fun. On the other hand the problems we deal with in designing and implementing systems like this are so
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In my case I work at Google. Company-wide, we aggressively push code quality. You cannot submit code without someone reviewing it. You cannot submit code in a language in which you aren’t certified as proficient without someone with profici
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I disagree the next crisis will be fueled by fintech: fintech does not hide as much risk as the institutions that failed before the crisis. Contrast this with the underlying causes of the financial crises: First off, as of 2007 AIG, Bear St
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> Peter Thiel, one of the ideological leaders in the Valley, wrote in 2009 on a blog affiliated with the Cato Institute that “since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two consti
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One thing that bothers me as someone who works at Google (but is speaking purely his own opinion) is that this manifesto implies some pretty wrong things about our hiring process. In particular, it conflates diversity sourcing programs with
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So what you're asking is are we looking for greater fools? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory Forget taxi drivers telling you to invest as a mark of a bubble, questions like this are about as clea
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Everything we've seen about this program indicates it is implemented as a blacklist of undesirable behavior and not a whitelist of known-good as formats. For your first example, the difference between this being beneficial and problema
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> Web users will quickly recognize their only options: pay to use the internet, or uninstall the ad blockers and surf the web for free. Or they could disable Chrome ad blocking and install their ad blocker of choice. If I'm reading
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As someone who works for Google (but is expressing his own opinion), most of what you're saying about Google seems reasonably accurate. One note: > Google is very very large and very (for a web tech company) old. It has a lot of int
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Regarding his canned response: > Thanks for your email. I'm very interested indeed. I have nothing against an interview. However, there is one condition: I have to be interviewed by the person I will be working for. By my future dir
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I've seen replies about how this is a "simple library swap" and so doesn't deserve the attention it recognition it has received. As some who works at Google but not anywhere remotely near this project, but with experienc
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Working in a large organization straight out of college, I've learned the meaning of the phrase 'pay your dues.' When you get hired at a large organization, you're expected to fall in line for a while before you get entr
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I can't speak for Wangle, but I've used Google's version (GRPC) to implement the networking transport for an N64 netplay hack[1] I wrote, and it was awesome. [1]: https://github.com/water-works
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The first thing that comes to mind after reading this is GRPC ( https://github.com/grpc/grpc ). That library has the advantage of supporting just about every language, not just C++.

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