Google's engineers aren't getting their money's worth(aplawrence.com)
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Google's engineers aren't getting their money's worth
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Err, isn't the title the opposite of what the article says? He's saying Google isn't getting their money's worth, not the engineers.
Quite right. The title says engineers aren't getting enough, when the article is complaining about the engineers.
The article picks a few atomic issues and uses them to suggest that Google aren't hiring the best people.
I'm sure Google have people who can fix these issues, I'd be surprised if Google have any engineers incapable of fixing them, the only thing this shows is that they aren't prioritizing those fixes.
I'm sure Google have people who can fix these issues, I'd be surprised if Google have any engineers incapable of fixing them, the only thing this shows is that they aren't prioritizing those fixes.
I call B.S on this article. This is so easy..
In other news:
Nobody is perfect.
There are no silver bullets.
Fix it yourself if it's open source.
Why don't you use something better then.
It's free so you can't complain.
In other news:
Nobody is perfect.
There are no silver bullets.
Fix it yourself if it's open source.
Why don't you use something better then.
It's free so you can't complain.
>>Fix it yourself if it's open source.
Some Google engineers don't get this clear
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-goo...
And most of the Google products are not open source either.
Some Google engineers don't get this clear
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/hands-on-goo...
And most of the Google products are not open source either.
I agree. My personal example: google contacts. I updated all my contacts to have a photo. However in Gmail-Chat some of those photos do not appear. If I click on the empty photo in the chat I'm taken to the contact details and there is the photo I uploaded. Not world class!
Who is world class? Is MobileMe any better than this?
who and why posts such useless stuff on HN !! ?
Having "the world's best engineers" should mean that you are able to solve problems that no one else can. That your engineers recognize possibilities and see solutions where no one else can. I can actually argue that because they (supposedly) hire engineers with such great expertise, the QA department suffers. A common symptom of smart people is that they don't want to be bothered with dumb, repetitive tasks (read: testing, QA, etc) but rather want to solve interesting problems.
Besides, it would be a bit weird to expect smart people to not make any mistakes. People always make mistakes, no matter how smart they are. If mistakes are noticeable to the end user, in the end it's due to an error in the business processes, not a human error.