Re:A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices)
by wpietri on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:26AM
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As for Google Wave, my personal opinion is that it was a solution in search of a problem so I wouldn't look at it as a failing of "softer" disciplines.
It kills me that so few people at Google even understand what good product people do.
We engineers love solutions. We have entire books of them. We are hypnotized by tool catalogs and hardware stores because they are full of lovely, lovely solutions.
Good product people, though, focus on the actual problems that people have. When solutions are proposed, they test them intensively on real people to see if they actually deliver benefit. If not, they don't ship them.
Google Wave is absolutely a failure to appreciate "softer" disciplines.
It kills me that so few people at Google even understand what good product people do.
We engineers love solutions. We have entire books of them. We are hypnotized by tool catalogs and hardware stores because they are full of lovely, lovely solutions.
Good product people, though, focus on the actual problems that people have. When solutions are proposed, they test them intensively on real people to see if they actually deliver benefit. If not, they don't ship them.
Google Wave is absolutely a failure to appreciate "softer" disciplines.