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by kortilla 706 days ago
Engineers don’t pick products anymore. That died a long time ago
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Kind of the point - the engineers rejected the guy because (in their perception) he wasn't good enough at leetcode or some esoteric language feature or whatever - meanwhile they were blind to the fact that he possessed a skill that was far more valuable to the company, which they themselves had no ability to recognize or evaluate.
Yeah most of Google's successful products are acquisitions, not homegrown.