Ha, busted.
It was in the Android repo, which used Gerrit. I never dealt with readability, because Android did not require it. In fact that was part of their internal recruiting pitch: fed up with readability? Come work on Android!…
I worked at Google circa 2015, and found the code review process to be actively terrible. I was writing JS, while my sole teammate was a firmware engineer. He was not willing or able to meaningfully review my code, so I…
During my time there, the internal Android repo required VP approval to access. Though I understand this was relaxed later.
Over 16 years I've worked at only four companies, but one of them was Google, and it was honestly my least favorite. Creature comforts: I have an actual cubicle with >2x the space. Excellent meals are still provided,…
You know Google's monorepo is successful because they have so many of them! google3, Android, Chrome browser, ChromeOS... Kidding aside, my point is Google recognizes obvious boundaries between e.g. their web stuff and…
I agree, it's between useful and harmless. But who considered someone taking a piss and thought "that time could be better utilized?"
Example: my whole building was working in the android repo, but the ToT article would be about some tool for google3 (web) development.
I saw these during my 18 months at Google. They were never relevant to my work. Working at Google you are bombarded with "nudges." The garbage cans have stop smoking signs. The plentiful candy is famously placed into…
Honestly it's the opposite. The way you get noticed and promoted at Google is by building something new, even if Google is already doing something else in that space. That's part of the reason there's so much…
I got overchurned.
Can you quantify that? Honest question - Android does not seem like a small project to me, but perhaps it really is dwarfed by Google's web services. What you wrote reminded me of a feeling I had: that these projects…
Checkouts are apparently instantaneous. Behind the scenes, there is a FUSE filesystem that faults in files by querying Google's cloud servers. So it does not require a significant amount of space (but does require fast…
During my 16 month tenure in Google, I worked on: 1. Android, using shell and Make 2. ChromeOS, using Portage 3. Chrome browser, using Ninja 4. google3 (aka "the monorepo") officially using blaze (but often there were…
> It showed that the effective tax rate paid by those Americans jumped in 2013 to nearly 23 percent. As a data point, my family paid 28% average federal tax, on AGI of $355k. We are California residents. Taxes are…
Speaking as a former member of more than one low-performing team at Google, none of the exercises would have helped our performance very much. What would have helped: 1. Being co-located. We would have been more…
No, not TBR. I was referring to the fact that you can +2 your own CL, which allows it to be merged. Officially this is an "emergency" feature, as you say, but a dirty secret is that it's used routinely. I encountered it…
You can self-review. That's how people solve the problem.
The smartphone requires awkwardly peering at a glass rectangle, yet it effortlessly reorganized social norms, because it's so damn useful and interesting. So why didn't Glass do the same thing? > I found that it was not…
Google HQ is officially a "dog friendly" campus, and dogs are welcome in the engineering offices, where some bark. Some owners respond by taking their dogs outside immediately, but others just shush their pet, which of…
I am in a room full of people, none of whom are working on anything related to what I'm doing. The idea that my seating will help "foster collaboration" is ludicrous. It's all about maximizing the number of warm bodies…
I am a SWE for Google and my area is super noisy. Construction, dogs barking (on our floor), phone calls, etc. My job requires me to work with a lot of PCBs, so I have to stay at my desk; I can't exactly curl up…
During my one year at Google, the problem with the most complaints by far on memegen is Android L's "safety lock," requiring an extra swipe up before entering the unlock code. This is an edict from the design team,…
Ha, busted.
It was in the Android repo, which used Gerrit. I never dealt with readability, because Android did not require it. In fact that was part of their internal recruiting pitch: fed up with readability? Come work on Android!…
I worked at Google circa 2015, and found the code review process to be actively terrible. I was writing JS, while my sole teammate was a firmware engineer. He was not willing or able to meaningfully review my code, so I…
During my time there, the internal Android repo required VP approval to access. Though I understand this was relaxed later.
Over 16 years I've worked at only four companies, but one of them was Google, and it was honestly my least favorite. Creature comforts: I have an actual cubicle with >2x the space. Excellent meals are still provided,…
You know Google's monorepo is successful because they have so many of them! google3, Android, Chrome browser, ChromeOS... Kidding aside, my point is Google recognizes obvious boundaries between e.g. their web stuff and…
I agree, it's between useful and harmless. But who considered someone taking a piss and thought "that time could be better utilized?"
Example: my whole building was working in the android repo, but the ToT article would be about some tool for google3 (web) development.
I saw these during my 18 months at Google. They were never relevant to my work. Working at Google you are bombarded with "nudges." The garbage cans have stop smoking signs. The plentiful candy is famously placed into…
Honestly it's the opposite. The way you get noticed and promoted at Google is by building something new, even if Google is already doing something else in that space. That's part of the reason there's so much…
I got overchurned.
Can you quantify that? Honest question - Android does not seem like a small project to me, but perhaps it really is dwarfed by Google's web services. What you wrote reminded me of a feeling I had: that these projects…
Checkouts are apparently instantaneous. Behind the scenes, there is a FUSE filesystem that faults in files by querying Google's cloud servers. So it does not require a significant amount of space (but does require fast…
During my 16 month tenure in Google, I worked on: 1. Android, using shell and Make 2. ChromeOS, using Portage 3. Chrome browser, using Ninja 4. google3 (aka "the monorepo") officially using blaze (but often there were…
> It showed that the effective tax rate paid by those Americans jumped in 2013 to nearly 23 percent. As a data point, my family paid 28% average federal tax, on AGI of $355k. We are California residents. Taxes are…
Speaking as a former member of more than one low-performing team at Google, none of the exercises would have helped our performance very much. What would have helped: 1. Being co-located. We would have been more…
No, not TBR. I was referring to the fact that you can +2 your own CL, which allows it to be merged. Officially this is an "emergency" feature, as you say, but a dirty secret is that it's used routinely. I encountered it…
You can self-review. That's how people solve the problem.
The smartphone requires awkwardly peering at a glass rectangle, yet it effortlessly reorganized social norms, because it's so damn useful and interesting. So why didn't Glass do the same thing? > I found that it was not…
Google HQ is officially a "dog friendly" campus, and dogs are welcome in the engineering offices, where some bark. Some owners respond by taking their dogs outside immediately, but others just shush their pet, which of…
I am in a room full of people, none of whom are working on anything related to what I'm doing. The idea that my seating will help "foster collaboration" is ludicrous. It's all about maximizing the number of warm bodies…
I am a SWE for Google and my area is super noisy. Construction, dogs barking (on our floor), phone calls, etc. My job requires me to work with a lot of PCBs, so I have to stay at my desk; I can't exactly curl up…
During my one year at Google, the problem with the most complaints by far on memegen is Android L's "safety lock," requiring an extra swipe up before entering the unlock code. This is an edict from the design team,…