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Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

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post #26

Two Sigma (and others) have been poaching senior level google talent at a quicker and quicker clip. Very exciting to watch the exodus happen!

Hedge funds/hf trading companies can't compete with monopolies in printing money. I wonder how they are getting all these people.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#42
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you found Googlers to be self-aggrandizing on average? That's not been my experience working there. (But might be different for "Googlers who talk a lot/are well-known publicly".)

From the outside peering in, the only Googlers are the ones who talk a lot or loudly leverage their ex-googler status on other projects.

Well but the ones who aren't loud and don't bring it up constantly, you wouldn't know that about them.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the outside peering in, the only Googlers are the ones who talk a lot or loudly leverage their ex-googler status on other projects.

Well but the ones who aren't loud and don't bring it up constantly, you wouldn't know that about them.

That's exactly my point.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#44
post #11

> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!

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I'd hope so; it would be pretty damn embarrassing if you couldn't do a slightly advanced fuzz buzz.

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#45
This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma, but couldn't figure it out from the website. @spf13, any pointers on where to find a good article on why TS is cool?

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#46

> You may know me from building the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, Hugo, Cobra, Drupal and spf13-vim Actually this is the first time i heard from this guy, but this is an impressive list of projects to be involved in, wow!

Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? I'm sure he didn't build any of those alone, and as a "leader" and a product person he probably didn't do much of the "building". Seems like he was mostly in an advisory role for Drupal, Docker and MongoDB, he didn't exactly build them.

Yeah, wow, exaggerations everywhere ! Very distasteful. His LinkedIn profile says: "I’m responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption."

W O W, really ?

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#47
post #45

This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma, but couldn't figure it out from the website. @spf13, any pointers on where to find a good article on why TS is cool?

I'm really curious about that also

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#49
post #45

This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma, but couldn't figure it out from the website. @spf13, any pointers on where to find a good article on why TS is cool?

Two Sigma is notoriously tightlipped about everything. This guy's short post about interning there in 2015 is probably the most I've even seen about working there: https://evjang.com/2015/08/17/internship-experiences.html

Re: Spf13 is leaving Google

#50
post #45

This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma, but couldn't figure it out from the website. @spf13, any pointers on where to find a good article on why TS is cool?

Can’t speak for two sigma but I work in a similar company. They are generally only open enough to hire people, there is a huge competitive advantage in sharing as little as possible.

Lots of finance firms have a bunch of interesting problems, from scaling to security and many are getting better at treating engineers well. But usually it comes down to the fact they pay really well.

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