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Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance by jackblemming on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:59PM (#31335387)
>I hadn’t been coding regularly for about 5 years. But thankfully their interviews were practical. I spent evenings and weekends refreshing my skills enough to pass.

Can we agree how screwed up our joke interview culture is when a Google engineer with 10 years experience has to brush up interview skills? Come on.

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Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance by aeyes on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:11PM (#31335446)
Reading the blog I would say he hasn't been working in a true engineering position for a very long time, probably some sort of engineering manager.
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Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance by stkenned on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:25PM (#31335534)
(OP here)

Yeah, I was in a role where I was full time managing for the second half of my Google tenure. Hence the rusty coding skills.

Yes, this also means I'm ridiculing myself on the whole OKR framing thing.

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Re:Why I left Google: work-life balance by gniv on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @10:17AM (#31340308)
It's partly a reflection on Google culture. They use so many in-house libraries that you forget what it's like to code without them.
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