Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by nonameiguess on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:55PM (#37167087)

This isn't really fair. All of Android, the Go programming language, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Big Table, Kubernetes, V8, Chrome are all very good engineering, software that stands the test of time and is likely to remain in use for decades. It's not garbage. They're great at libraries, plumbing, infrastructure layer tooling that enables Internet scale.

What they aren't good at is consumer-facing web services with graphical frontends, at least since Gmail or so. Even there, businesses seem to like the G Suite.

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by photon_lines on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:39PM (#37170196)

Google acquired the early android team and they were vital in making it succesful: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-acquisition-...

Chrome: hmm - was Chrome developed after Brin & Page left? I never realized this but OK you got me on that one if that indeed is the case.

Go: I liked it initially and I love the performance, but i don't necessarily love the language syntax and design.

The rest: mostly tools which make scaling Google's infrastructure easier. I don't count these as outstanding accomplishments but I suppose you may have had me here too (albeit the scope I was referring to mostly referred to regular ppl not infra teams but meh I suppose I'll give you this one as well).

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