What Steve Yegge thinks about Google
Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.
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3 dated positions, 2008 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Yegge has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingGoogle has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.
Their wordsIn fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 17th of 25 in this recording
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Their wordsThe thing is, Google has a well-known false negative rate, which means we sometimes turn away qualified people, because that's considered better than sometimes hiring unqualified people.
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Their words1) Study a data-structures and algorithms book. Why? Because it is the most likely to help you beef up on problem identification.