aniket_ray

Google needs less of so called product-"leadership" (like PMs and management) who are usually drivers of the aforementioned politics. The engineers need to have control to actually let engineering and metrics drive these decisions.

>The successful applicant will be hired as freelancer (independent contractor) through the Mozilla Foundation’s third-party service Upwork (www.upwork.com).

Not knowing much about Mozilla, is this the norm there?

Actually it's relevant. There is a fair bit of research about people being unconsciously biassed against short leaders.

I've been comparing and buying on either Jet or Amazon recentlly. As a result, I've been buying on Jet more frequently. Jet has a smaller selection but they usually have a good enough range on the price-value curve that it's not a big problem. Like for like, they are indeed cheaper than Amazon and free 2 day delivery is always a plus. Of course their model is lower prices with a bit more delayed deliveries.

Unfortunately this posturing is not because of any independence in Mozilla or any new revenue generating ability. Instead, they've just to switched to Yahoo/Bing's side now.

No, just no.

A candidate is taking time from their busy schedule and are considering making a contribution to your company/team/project. You should appreciate that more.

In the real world, shit happens. There are an inordinate amount of things that can go wrong and delay someone. In this case it's all the worse, since the problem was the interviewers own organization. The interviewer should be apologizing on behalf of his organization instead of being an asshole.

Nothing justifies the interviewers' reaction.

So was Myspace when AOL acquired it.

> Reader was hugely successful, which is why the outcry on its closing

Umm, no. Reader was not hugely successful. Users loved the idea of using Reader but they did not actually use it.

Google has a lot of internal discussions in town halls, G+, TGIFs, memegen etc. You don't have to know someone personally to know how they approach issues.

Also I can completely understand why the Googler on reddit chose to remain anonymous. There's a pretty vocal brigade of "rabble rousers"(for lack of a better term) at Google.

The photo was probably clicked to attach it to some sort of internal candidate feedback form. Photos ensure that the interviewer does not make a typographical mistake while entering it in.

Also production quality code is usually interview speak for "Your code should be more robust i.e. check inputs and return values from library functions. Fix it."

I think his point was that Code and Code Search are/were different products.

Not sure why you were downvoted as opposed to OP but this thread is full of people who don't realize that Google is truly a place where employees are encouraged to speak up when things are bad. Frankly, organizations would never be able to fix their mistakes if their employees are censured when they speak up.

Personally, I think all of them are bogus decisions. Apple might be well within their rights to make bogus decisions but that does not automatically make them not bogus.

Note taking app should not have custom keyboard. Bogus. Apps are not allowed to have UX gesture similar to Apple because they become confusingly similar to Apple product. Bogus. It was a stopwatch for crying out load.

No matter how you try to spin it, these decisions is just Apple screwing over their app developers.