And yet in one short article the OP perfectly summed up who google sucks at making long term software that continues to work.
People often say that google rewards for new projects and ideas vs maintaining the old, I didn’t really understand what that meant until he explained it here. Doing good work is meaningless, the only that matters is what some faceless committee thinks.
What’s odd is that the committee doesn’t look at code quality, maintainability or longevity. They don’t care about documentation at all apparently because it’s not a quantifiable metric. And yet if you asked any engineer they would all say they’d rather work with documented code vs undocumented. It would ave them time and allow them to fix things faster.
The fact that google is trying to turn everyone into a quantified machine is making the whole org very sick.
People often say that google rewards for new projects and ideas vs maintaining the old, I didn’t really understand what that meant until he explained it here. Doing good work is meaningless, the only that matters is what some faceless committee thinks.
What’s odd is that the committee doesn’t look at code quality, maintainability or longevity. They don’t care about documentation at all apparently because it’s not a quantifiable metric. And yet if you asked any engineer they would all say they’d rather work with documented code vs undocumented. It would ave them time and allow them to fix things faster.
The fact that google is trying to turn everyone into a quantified machine is making the whole org very sick.