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Funny, that was deleted years ago, now returns: "404: File not found."
I'd love to see more companies with an evil canary cartoon image file. Perhaps when violated, canary.png could direct to a cartoon unicorn sheepishly grinning with one stuffed cheek.
Example:
i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code. i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee. then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go. the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone. the humans.txt is still acc…
Is it really that easy to miss an errant text file in the site directory? I'm so meticulous when it comes to code that you couldn't possibly get that past me.
Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
To be very honest: don't waste your time It is certainly a common desire of a lot of people to work there. And it certainly can be achieved if you have the technical skills But the advantages of a position are overrated, and the disadvantages, underrated. Certainly, not everywhere you can work on Google sized problems, but other place have interesting problems as well, and you'll feel your work to be more valued
i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code. i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee. then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go. the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone. the humans.txt is still acc…
"Legacy Code"
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To be very honest: don't waste your time It is certainly a common desire of a lot of people to work there. And it certainly can be achieved if you have the technical skills But the advantages of a position are overrated, and the disadvantages, underrated. Certainly, not everywhere you can work on Google sized problems, but other place have interesting problems as well, and you'll feel your work to be more valued
That. As an ex-Google engineer, I'm often asked why I quit. I usually reply with a soccer analogy. If you're a decent player, and somehow you're bought by Real Madrid, you won't see much real action. There are enough superstars (technical and political) who get to do exciting stuff to keep you relegated to tedious, menial tasks.
Real Madrid salaries for "average talent" are probably more competitive as well
Another interesting one is: https://www.tumblr.com/humans.txt