Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness

Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ilovecaching on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:49AM (#18254307)

Facebook, Google, Apple, and Netflix still have some of the best talent in the bay. They also push out a lot of amazing projects (PyTorch, React, Go, Chromium, Tensorflow), although Netflix much less so.

At the end of the day they have the money, and they do provide ridiculous perks.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ronilan on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:31AM (#18254422)

> They also push out a lot of amazing projects ... although Netflix much less so.

Actually Netflix much more so, only their projects are not in software. Just sayin.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by arbie on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:01AM (#18254497)

Where can I find such non-software projects?

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by curuinor on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:13AM (#18254542)

think they mean the movies and things

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by coldcode on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:08AM (#18256090)

Ever use Xcode on a day to day basis? Clearly not the best talent there.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ilikerashers on Friday October 19, 2018 @05:25AM (#18255369)

Netflix have Chaos Monkey, Spinnaker and Jaeger. Maybe not industry leading but still better than Apple.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by skj on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:31AM (#18255613)

Google has quite a large team working on Spinnaker as well (sibling to my own team).

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by jxub on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:09AM (#18267651)

Also, Hystrix, Eureka, and other JVM microservicey packages.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by poooogles on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:01AM (#18255504)

Jaeger is Uber.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by ilikerashers on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:22AM (#18255843)

You're correct there. My bad.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by onion2k on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:25AM (#18254577)

But you will only ever be a tiny part of those big projects. If you want big challenges or big recognition perhaps a smaller startup will make you happier...

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by nambit on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:23AM (#18255850)

Not necessarily. You can go to a team that works on a tiny part or you can go to a team that affects the entire company. You'd be surprised how few people want to work on the latter. Especially because the tiny parts are usually new press release type "fancy" stuff and not boring things like build systems, security, etc.

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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by baccheion on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:47AM (#18254655)

In all likelihood you won't even work on any of those projects.

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