Comment by supergirl
11 years ago
so for you "best in the world" is not someone good at CS. similarly, for Google it appears best in the world is not someone that made a popular tool.
11 years ago
so for you "best in the world" is not someone good at CS. similarly, for Google it appears best in the world is not someone that made a popular tool.
And so Google can continue to lose talent to competitors, or have potential hires go off to start their own startups they can then pay a premium for, while keeping "good enough" talent for existing initiatives.
I'm starting to realize why Google is absolutely terrible at any sort of customer-facing product.
talent.. what is talent? they have a set of skills they look for. this guy doesn't have what they need. for you talent means to be the author of a popular tool, but for Google means more; means also boring stuff like being good at communicating, being good in a team, etc. who knows how many of these this guy failed