[Esophagus4]

Keep in mind “great engineer” will be a subjective term that means different things to everyone.

To Meta, it might mean cream of the crop, $1m+ engineer. To early Google, it might mean Stanford grad with deep CS knowledge. To a no-name startup, it might mean someone who accepts the job who takes initiative and knows how to crank out ugly code quickly on AWS and makes good prioritization decisions.

[teiferer]

What's the last "deep CS" thing that Google built? Isn't most of what comes out of their shop re-wrapped known tech with mediocre UX?

[cutemonster]

Google Cloud and Gemini are two examples