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Note also that "savings" are often strongly tied to share price performance. If you were a mid-career senior engineer who signed a standard $600k/4yr RSU deal at Nvidia in 2014 then by 2018 you were sitting on potentially $8 million.
At a much more common 6.6kW charge station you're getting 25 miles per hour of charge. I can put about 350 miles of gas in my car in one minute.
The “obvious way to handle this” is to build cities without cars at all, where people walk and bike and take the buses and trains.
You can hide your level such that other people don’t see it, which is another difference between Google and my current company where people introduce each other by their titles, which makes me want to quit every time. Nobody at Google has ever said “And now I’d like to turn the meeting over to Principal Engineer Jane Doe”. Most people don’t mention it.
Edit: pretty sure I was off by one originally. But you get the idea: it’s a triangular organization with a lot of people at the base.
Working on shared code is so easy at Google because they have a fantastic cross-referenced code browser and search engine, ways to inspect production jobs and configs that anyone can access, and everything is open and visible.
By contrast the other large publicly-traded cloud company where I now work has the opposite culture: no code search worth using, “why are you touching my project?” culture, not enough tests to give anyone confidence in a change. The polar opposite of Google.
This tweet perfectly captures why all bug fixes must have tests. Linux has no tests and no testing culture and it is 17 million lines of juicy hot garbage. Google is mostly tests and it is one of the largest and most successful C++ projects in history of our industry. I feel justified in standing my ground when reviewing under-tested code.
"Not readable" is why Google also has the "readability" process. A person without readability needs the pre-submit approval of someone with readability in that language. After a while, new people become acculturated and gain readability.
"Matter of judgement" is why hiring is absolutely critical to success in software. You must hire people with good judgement, and to the extent that you might intentional or unintentionally hire bozos, do so at a low enough rate that you can indoctrinate them.