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by Laakeri 1269 days ago
For example Google hires mostly generalists and lots of people who care about income and career progression work there.
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i386 1269 days ago
Google does not. It hires a lot of specialists and fungible people.
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filoleg 1269 days ago
From my personal observations, Google indeed hires a lot of generalists.

Source: been an SWE in a hardware org for the past year there, and my team is a mix of about 1-2 people with plenty of previous hardware experience and focus, with the rest being generalists without much previous related experience (including me) who can pick things up and resolve them quickly, whatever they are. Observed quite a similar pattern on other teams in the org as well, with the only exception (to a degree) being a few research teams filled with PhDs.

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random314 1269 days ago
Specialist and fungible are contradictory. It's true that they don't hire specialists - but there are only 7-8 different software profiles they look for.

1. ML 2. Systems 3. Product 4. Data engineer 5. SRE ....

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dinkumthinkum 1269 days ago
Are you implying most companies have 37 profiles? Even this article was giving multiple examples or a little Web shop that probably has less profiles than 7.
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random314 1268 days ago
Obviously no.

What I meant is that they don't specifically try to hire nodejs/computer vision/graphics/kubernetes specialists etc.

Lots of startups and mid level companies are looking to hire specialists in computer vision, nlp, scala expertise etc.

So startups can have 4-5 highly specialized profiles.

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