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Re:Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than... by kevingadd on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:17PM (#24024372)
Why would six years as an individual contributor be enough to make sweeping assertions about an entire company when two years is not?

googthrowaway's experience more closely matches my experience at Google, fwiw, but it's certainly the case that your experience depends on which org you're in. My org had a notoriously incompetent VP running things and it hemorrhaged staff to companies like Apple and Microsoft.

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Re:Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than... by amscanne on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:22PM (#24024407)
You missed the point: I didn’t make any sweeping generalizations. I’m advocating against that. The only generalization I made is that the existing generalization about anti-engineering is hooey.

And I don’t know why you’re assuming I’m an IC; I didn’t say that either.

I don’t have any problems with people sharing their specific personal experience. I have a problem when people start claiming good engineers are “rare” — you’re just insinuating bad things about tens of thousands of people you have never even met.

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Re:Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than... by googthrowaway42 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:32PM (#24024473)
As a meta comment I will say that the rhetoric you're using is representative of the kinds of rhetoric you see on the internal mailing lists in case anyone reading whose never worked at Google wants to get a taste of what that's like. It literally reminds me of being back at Google.
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