[brahma1337]

FYI Google's codebase is also heavily Java. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to judge companies/projects based on the language they use. [Edit: Okay, maybe I misunderstood that part]

Did the other interviewers also ask similar questions?

[sokoloff]

I didn't read a complaint against java per-se, but rather an observation that if your most pressing business concern is to rewrite (presumed) working code in one language into java purely for taste reasons, then maybe it wasn't a place he wanted to work.

[carbocation]

asuffield didn't malign Java: he seemed to imply judgment about the fact that the company seemed to be converting working code from LANGUAGE1 to LANGUAGE2 for the purposes of being a LANGUAGE2 company.

[asuffield]

In particular about this being the only major project they were working on. They didn't just rewrite, they stopped doing everything else in order to prioritise it. The mind boggles.