Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions

Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by chetanahuja on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:57PM (#5889681)

While I'll accept your point about many google employees having no or un-cool degrees, there's no denying that google recruiters covet fresh college grads from well-known schools and your grades in school are an important factor. Not that google is unique is considering these factors in recruitment, but it's absolutely ridiculous to imply that google does not care about these factors.

As for proprietary parts not being important, I have major disagreements with your characterization of how well the linux kernel upstreaming works (having worked in that team) and other assertions about stock desktops (Stock Ubuntu ? Really ?) but I suspect that discussion will quickly veer into areas of confidentiality (if it hasn't already).

As for MapReduce and BigTable, I'm still wishing and hoping for the open-source world to catchup with the originals (Why do people keep writing enormous in-memory data stores in Java!??) Enough said.

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Re:Acquisition and maintenance of a band of minions by jmillikin on Sunday June 16, 2013 @04:24PM (#5889786)

  > there's no denying that google recruiters covet fresh
  > college grads from well-known schools and your grades in
  > school are an important factor.

Sure, Google recruiters hit up Stanford and MIT just like every other tech company. But they don't reject candidates for having a non-ivy-league background.

  > I have major disagreements with your characterization
  > of how well the linux kernel upstreaming works (having
  > worked in that team)

From within the team it may have seemed bad, from from nearby teams it's apparent that there's a lot of progress in upstreaming. All of the cgroup stuff, for example, seems to be going in relatively smoothly.

  > other assertions about stock desktops (Stock Ubuntu ? Really ?)

Based on your LinkedIn you left in late 2012; there's been a lot of work with Canonical since then on reducing how much customization Google needs to do for its desktops.

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