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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 …

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 ab…

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.…

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 bound…

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 ple…

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 o…

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 …

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 …

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") officia…

> 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 ar…

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-l…

> Any engineer can build any Google product from source on any machine A little too optimistic :) You can't build Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, iOS apps, etc. via blaze.

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 tha…

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 th…

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…

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 abou…

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 m…

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…