Google needs less of so called product-"leadership" (like PMs and management) who are usually drivers of the aforementioned politics. The engineers need to have control to actually let engineering and metrics drive these decisions.
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Not knowing much about Mozilla, is this the norm there?
[1] - https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Language_of_Food_A_...
A candidate is taking time from their busy schedule and are considering making a contribution to your company/team/project. You should appreciate that more.
In the real world, shit happens. There are an inordinate amount of things that can go wrong and delay someone. In this case it's all the worse, since the problem was the interviewers own organization. The interviewer should be apologizing on behalf of his organization instead of being an asshole.
Nothing justifies the interviewers' reaction.
Umm, no. Reader was not hugely successful. Users loved the idea of using Reader but they did not actually use it.
Also I can completely understand why the Googler on reddit chose to remain anonymous. There's a pretty vocal brigade of "rabble rousers"(for lack of a better term) at Google.
Also production quality code is usually interview speak for "Your code should be more robust i.e. check inputs and return values from library functions. Fix it."
Note taking app should not have custom keyboard. Bogus. Apps are not allowed to have UX gesture similar to Apple because they become confusingly similar to Apple product. Bogus. It was a stopwatch for crying out load.
No matter how you try to spin it, these decisions is just Apple screwing over their app developers.
I could find no source that Eric Schmidt is claiming that.
Now that you know what you enjoy: a) Join meetups that do those things. b) Organize meetups for things which already don't have them. c) Once you know which meetups to attend. Ask your co-workers, drop mails to mailing lists, meetup.com etc. Become an evangelist for these meetups.
Disclaimer: I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert on being social.
The reference you point out was a one-off event from 2010 though, and a lot of our systems and checks have developed in the subsequent years to prevent a recurrence.
I'll concede the point about my blanket statement especially when talking about NSA and Government espionage though. All I can say is Google does fight in courts against that. I wish I had a good way to stop spying completely. All we can do is continue to make our encryption stronger.
D: I work for Google.
The criticism here against the protesters is because they are asking for free handouts rather than them actually working to earn them. Yes I understand it is not easy to be retrained and I don't have a good solution for people being uprooted.
Yet, most commenters here on HN identify with startups/capitalism and believe that creating something that the market wants is ultimately the only way to earn a living. Certainly not protesting for free handouts.
The strange thing is that the protesters would have found lots of support among Google and other Tech industry employees if they had not targeted them in the first place.
PS: Google does not assist the NSA. Google has made it categorically clear. Guardian too had to backtrack on it's claims about that.
So no the jokes are not real concerns and are mostly silly intellectually lazy exaggerations.
I just thought personalized results are better for users. Does that make me a bad person?
PS: I work at Google though not in search.
Google+ was never intended to be a product in itself. Google+ is Google's social layer. Providing social features to other Google products was always the plan for Google+.
Before these revelations, the tech community in general didn't expect that we needed to encrypt all traffic flowing on our home/office LANs. Like the rest of the world, these spying revelations have taught us that we need to be much more paranoid than we were earlier and are now encrypting data on our own networks.
As a user of a lot of web services that are deployed on the cloud, I'd actually beseech my fellow tech community to do this too. All and any user data passed between any two servers (even on a backend, internal, local network) needs to encrypted.
AFAICT, Google has been completely transparent about giving users control about how their data is shared. It's been ahead of the pack in protecting its users rights even going to courts to protect users.
Disclaimer:I am an Engineer@Google.
Programmatic algorithms on some Google properties are processing your data to show you the most relevant content (search, G+ posts, mail, news etc) and advertisements. There is a big difference between this "tracking" and the kind of snooping that spy organizations do.
By the way I'll be surprised if all spy organizations and not just NSA aren't trying their best to get more information on certain people from wherever they can.
Google Reader is dead and it's not coming back. Reader usage was extremely low and it made no business sense for Google to run it. If Reader actually had enough users, Google wouldn't have shut it down. Many entrepreneurs, including me in the past, have had to take this decision to shut our services because they did not have enough traction. Failure is part of taking a risk and you should be more appreciative of the risk.
I was angry at the Reader shutdown too as I was an avid Reader user. I was quick to switch to Feedly but lately I find myself being infrequent checking my RSS feed. I seem to be getting more and more of my news from techmeme and hacker news. When I talk to tech friends about this, it seems the they were already doing this. The rest of the world had already moved on and I was just late to realize this.
Was I angry at first? Yes. Am I still angry? No.
PS: I'm an engineer at Google right now.