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by golly_ned 726 days ago
This from Beyang Liu, Sourcegraph CTO, who plays up his stint as a Google intern to represent himself as a "former google engineer", and wrote this blog referencing Google 55x in a short article to associate sourcegraph with Google-quality tooling: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/ex-googler-guide-dev-tools
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... is an intern not a former engineer? I assume it was software engineering internship?
Definitely gives a different impression if you say "former Google engineer" vs. "former Google intern".
I am not sure how you would conflate an engineer with an intern.

That's like conflating a practising doctor with a medical student.

No