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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by lallysingh on Friday October 19, 2018 @09:48AM (#18256674)
It's a combination of finding someone really talented, putting them in an area where their talent gets well used, and giving them lots of freedom to implement as they wish.
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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by tinkerteller on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:35PM (#18261048)
This list is not about talent finders/leaders/managers. It's about people who wrote ton of code to accomplish something by themselves that would have been very very hard for a good manager to accomplish by simply lining up big team of median engineers.
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Re:Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great En... by tonyedgecombe on Friday October 19, 2018 @10:23AM (#18256907)
Being there at the right time helps as well, there were lots of low hanging fruit waiting to be picked.
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