[linkregister]

One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google. He had designed and contributed a decent portion of the core of the product. One of his projects for the company had about 50 stars on github.

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[linkregister]

I am terribly sorry. While looking up information about the company to be able to answer the reply, I couldn't find any news about its acquisition by Google. It was shuttered by its parent company and I presume a portion of the company must have been sold to Google if my colleague was being accurate. I can't edit or delete the comment. If I'm unvoted/downvoted then I certainly understand and agree!

More info: he is a director for a well-used standard in the IETF, so he's no slouch.

[MichaelMoser123]

> One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google

amazing: they spend n million dollars just to get that talented individual, and then just throw it all away. My question is how is this expense reported/justified and who gets the difference? What about shareholder value?

[corobo]

They have many talented individuals who could probably figure out what does what with the code they just bought

[thewhitetulip]

not to troll or anything but I find it utterly stupid that this is done. Also is it a big deal to have 1000 stars on a github project you run? I am curious because I do not know what the general perception is of github projects, I mean how much do they matter? I do not have a formal training on algorithms and I am studying machine learning now. Also I have a project having 200 something stars and one having 1000+ stars

[linkregister]

1000+ stars is a pretty big deal! I imagine you could leverage this to gain software development job interviews if you were looking.

Do they matter? It is just one of many metrics of how useful a repository is. I think it's one of the most public metrics that can be distilled to a single factoid on HN. There are absolutely better metrics to judge the quality of software.

[thewhitetulip]

Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-)

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

Also I am not in US.

[tkxxx7]

teaching people to build web apps, especially without a framework in a language like Go, should buy you tons of leverage.

[thewhitetulip]

I wasn't aware of it, thank you :-)