Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by danielmarkbruce on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:57PM
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A front-end framework isn't exactly the kind of thing the engineers I'm talking about work on... there are 10's of thousands of engineers at Google. A good number of them aren't building systems per se. But if you want to learn how to build systems, some folks in there are crazy good.
Might be a bit anecdotal, but I actually hired ex-Googlers for two different startups in the past. I would be hesitant to do it again.
They can indeed be good at building complex systems.
But when we needed simple systems, they would still build complex systems.
When we needed to ship product, they would still build complex systems.
Twice I had the experience where an ex-Googler would promise to rewrite a piece of software from scratch because it had a bad architecture, only to quit/get fired few months later (obviously the big rewrite was not finished by then).
Re:Google is shutting down Stadia
by danielmarkbruce on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:39PM
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Yup, I believe it.
Come on, Flutter’s not that bad…
Which framework are you talking about?
Now, I'm not denying they are super smart. But you need a mix of book smart and street smart to be successful. Google seems to only focus on books. They are incredible at solving problems. But they suck at picking which problems to solve.