Lessons from 14 Years at Google

Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google by jaredsohn on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:22PM (#46493874)

Good software engineers are concerned with product strategy. They might not be able to decide things but they can help inform product about options because they're closer to actually building things.

If you just implement product tickets you'll probably get replaced by LLMs.

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Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google by hyperadvanced on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:07PM (#46494908)

It’s crazy how fast the tables turned on SWE being barely required to do anything to SWE being required to do everything. I quite like the 2026 culture of SWE but it’s so much more demanding and competitive than it was 5 or 10 years ago

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Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google by jeanlou on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:07AM (#46495784)

You need to be a product-minded engineer.

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