On Secretly Terrible Engineers

Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by monkeyabcd on Sunday March 08, 2015 @05:26PM (#9167345)

Definitely not true. I'm a current Google employee, and one of my teammates (a senior staff engineer, no less) does NOT know what a unit test is, what an API is, what Borg is, or how MapReduce works. After suspecting this for a while, I asked him to try to explain some of these concepts, and he either had no answer or his answers were hilariously wrong.

(He did come from an acquisition, though, and doesn't write any code. He's more of a manager, despite not being on the manager track.)

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Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by Animats on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:23PM (#9167608)

"Borg?" I had to look that up. It's Google's in-house cluster manager.

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Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by Luyt on Sunday March 08, 2015 @06:49PM (#9167725)

I thought he meant the 'Borg' design pattern ;-)

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Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by Hydraulix989 on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:55AM (#9169179)

I don't know what Borg is either, but then I realized it is likely an internal Google thing; unit test, API, MapReduce -- these are all ubiquitous concepts to programmers outside of Mountain View, so the inclusion of Borg seemed a little out of place.

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