A lot of Google hate lately, most of which is deserved. But I just wanna remind people there’s a VERY long list of people that took a Google internal tool or paper and later started an entire company out of it, by making it available to the public.
If there’s problems at Google, they’re not with the people, they’re cultural.
There’s a wide distribution of engineers obviously, so even dummies like me get lumped in with the genius level programmers, but I would never bet against Google.
the average FAANG engineer is way smarter on average than the average startup engineer
if you think it’s a professional mark of death you’re an idiot