What Steve Yegge thinks about hiring
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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2 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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Their wordswe are moving into a world very quickly this year where proof of work is so important and I mean proof of work not in the Bitcoin sense but your proof of what you have done, your resume. And I don't mean your resume because nobody's going to believe that. I mean the actual work that you did which has to be visible
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 24th of 25 in this recording
- 18 years earlier
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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.