Google developers are often so lost in the weeds of shipping fast and optimizing for rapid releases that they frustrate users with rapid UI changes, deprecation of major functionality, and not building the things that people often want in favor of just shipping fast.
That's part of the reason why this post doesn't talk at all about user requirements, needs definitions, or user stories or anything like that. If this is what is "Software Engineering at Google" then maybe this shouldn't be seen as "best practice".
I have found the Google experience, as a user, to be decaying steadily over the past 5-6 years.
That's part of the reason why this post doesn't talk at all about user requirements, needs definitions, or user stories or anything like that. If this is what is "Software Engineering at Google" then maybe this shouldn't be seen as "best practice".
I have found the Google experience, as a user, to be decaying steadily over the past 5-6 years.