[spir]

How does Google "select heavily for generalists" when the interview is almost entirely comp sci? Perhaps you mean "computer science generalist".

Afaik, the only way for me to get a software offer from Google is to spend dozens or hundreds of hours studying computer science, and nothing else.

If I interview for software at Google, they don't ask about my skills in product design, economics, or strategy. If I interview for a non-software role at Google, they don't ask about my experience writing software.

Show me a Google interview that's half software and half product. That's a role to which I'd like to apply :).

I think TFA argues that Google's org structure is not optimized to benefit from or hire cross-disciplinary generalists.

[username90]

Although most engineers at Google doesn't talk to non-engineers Google still have roles requiring both. Examples:

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/89970700451750598-te...

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/141084669270467270-p...

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/75981898595082950-pr...

[spir]

Do any of these roles involve writing software?