>This way of looking at it unfortunately suffers from self-reference. Someone who won't meet the dress code won't be looked on as a "really great candidate", so the exercise is undermined at the outset.
Even if that person is well known for being the best of the best? Even if their everyone knows that other companies out there would love to grab them because they are that good?
I disagree. Many entrepreneurs would love to work for a big company IF they were at the controls and not the cogs.
Steve Jobs. He had full control over Apple and could tell it to build whatever he wanted. He worked for a big company. From what I've read, he was happy working there.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, they seem happy working for a big company.
Larry Ellison loves working for Oracle. I have yet to hear any disappointment from him about working for a big company.
All in all, I think many entrepreneurs would love working at big companies - as long as they are in the top 1% of the company who have control over the rest.
Silicon Valley is known for having some very smart people solving very complex problems. Do you think there was any way for them to have limited the damage from California over the years?
For me, I find it's actually a matter of learning more about myself and why I do what I do. I'm no great designer but I was a technically minded person who thought I could never design anything nice. That was until I tried to examine why I do what I do.
I keep asking myself "Why did I just do that?" and do whatever it takes to find out that why.
Can it really unseat Google? From what I can see from the replies of many of these places, a lot of of people are satisfied with the bad advice they find.
I'm not old enough to know but my theory is things in the programming world historically came from the computer architectural world. Computer architecture uses stacks, interrupts (events), and other things in the physical layout of the computer chip. When people were done with the hardware stuff, they created software which has similarities to hardware and thus called them the same. When people then created higher level software from lower level software, they saw similarities there as well and went from there.
There's so many things to do that I feel so left behind. Just when I think I reached the finish line, I realized I just barely made it to the starting line for a very competitive race.
Innovative products always appear but I'm looking for companies which have a mantra for creating them and who are willing to grow beyond the "hobby" or "lifestyle support" phase.
Yes, it's an innovative product but the company behind it is being held together by masking tape. They doesn't seem interested in going much further than they are.
Google is making some big blunders and they are filled with some of the most technical people on earth. The open source community also is making some big blunders and most the core are technical as well.