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Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by throwaway0094 on Sunday November 10, 2013 @06:37PM (#6709015)
Dismissing all other organizations as worse at "gardening" than Google was a bit offensive.

And the lowest bidder for contracted work often sucks, or finds ways to bill more than the original bid. :)

Re:You are not a software engineer (2011) by cmaitchison on Sunday November 10, 2013 @08:22PM (#6709405)
I said they didn't have the same soil. That would include the multitude of internal tools they use to facilitate their software development, most of which are not publicly available, their culture, and the aptitude of their people.