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Spf13 is leaving Google
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Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ?
Yeah, he's a consummate self-promoter and exaggerator I was at Mongo at the same time. He worked on the drupal website which was a godawful mess. Then there was the Drivers team. He spent 3 years there, was absent most of the time working on Hugo while employed at Mongo. Mongo probably owns most of the IP for it. I am not sure what he did at Docker but he'd like you to believe the 10 months he spent there was pivotal to docker adoption, nevermind the fact it was already on fire.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
So basically a Googler, nonetheless.
Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
There are certain phrases that just saying them as a matter of fact will always risk sounding self aggrandizing.
"I work for Google" has become one. "I'm a Googler" just has me pivot and walk away.
Another infamous one, "I work at the White House."
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I never intended this statement to be taken as if I built these alone. Thanks for this candid feedback. Perhaps a more accurate wording is: "You may know me from helping to build the Go Language, Docker, MongoDB, and Drupal & creating Hugo, Cobra and spf13-vim"
This much more clear and honestly more impressive (because the first four are so obviously group effort that I discounted the last two - I had my suspicions about spf13-vim, though).
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#55This 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?
One of the few places that will pay competitive to GOOG.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#56Two 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.
Google has to try to hire and keep satisfied thousands upon thousands of engineers of various talent levels.
A smaller team just has to pay more than that for a few tens, and perhaps offer more interesting work besides.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#57Two 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.
Google hasn't kept up with industry pay. As a senior Google engineer, you can get much better pay in other firms.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ?
Yeah, he's a consummate self-promoter and exaggerator I was at Mongo at the same time. He worked on the drupal website which was a godawful mess. Then there was the Drivers team. He spent 3 years there, was absent most of the time working on Hugo while employed at Mongo. Mongo probably owns most of the IP for it. I am not sure what he did at Docker but he'd like you to believe the 10 months he spent there was pivotal…
Wow! Jealous much.
His LinkedIn says he started at MongoDB in 2011. The first commit to Hugo was in 2013, a full two years later. Your story doesn't add up at all.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#59This 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
In terms of "tightlippness", they don't come close to TGS Mgmt. All of their employees can't even list their employment at TGS Mgmt on LinkedIn.
Re: Spf13 is leaving Google
#60You should be proud of the work you’ve done on Go. Shipping a widely used language and bootstrapping a new ecosystem is no small task.