If I were him, I would have replied with something really interesting for anyone at Google (I'm guessing actually recruiters would not care), for example, what would it take me take a job at Google?
Certainly I'm not so arrogant to say I would never accept a job at Google. You will never know the future, so you will never know if 3 years from now Google would be funding the side-project of your dreams...
But even then, there are some things about Google that bother me. And this is what I would have written in an email to a recruiter. Some examples below:
- Stop spending resources on developing bad languages such as Go. (Or at least, really improve it please by adding generics and removing ignoring-errors-by-default. And merge it with Dart, or just throw Dart down the toilet please...)
- Stop tracking everyone and be more like duckduckgo.
- Take down GooglePlus, it doesn't make any fucking point nowadays, it's just useless and shameful.
- Resurrect GoogleReader (I still sometimes begin to write "reader.goo" when I open a tab nowadays), or at least make the code opensource and publish it.
- Open source the software that brings automation to google cars. We need accountability and transparency here.
- Stop the inclusion of proprietary software in Android. And stop blackmailing smartphone manufacturers by forcing them to include these services.
- After you have fixed Go (and flushed Dart), stop pushing for Python so much. If I get hired I don't want to write code that is going to be broken 6 months down the road.
- Same thing as previous bullet, but Java. Move Android to be Swift or C# based.
- Deprecate the stupid GoogleWallet thing and just adopt bitcoin, for once.
- Don't ever stop organizing Google Summer Of Code please (not everything in this comment was going to be criticism).
If these items get fulfilled, I would be less annoyed about working for Google.
If I were him, I would have replied with something really interesting for anyone at Google (I'm guessing actually recruiters would not care), for example, what would it take me take a job at Google?
Certainly I'm not so arrogant to say I would never accept a job at Google. You will never know the future, so you will never know if 3 years from now Google would be funding the side-project of your dreams...
But even then, there are some things about Google that bother me. And this is what I would have written in an email to a recruiter. Some examples below:
- Stop spending resources on developing bad languages such as Go. (Or at least, really improve it please by adding generics and removing ignoring-errors-by-default. And merge it with Dart, or just throw Dart down the toilet please...)
- Stop tracking everyone and be more like duckduckgo.
- Take down GooglePlus, it doesn't make any fucking point nowadays, it's just useless and shameful.
- Resurrect GoogleReader (I still sometimes begin to write "reader.goo" when I open a tab nowadays), or at least make the code opensource and publish it.
- Open source the software that brings automation to google cars. We need accountability and transparency here.
- Stop the inclusion of proprietary software in Android. And stop blackmailing smartphone manufacturers by forcing them to include these services.
- After you have fixed Go (and flushed Dart), stop pushing for Python so much. If I get hired I don't want to write code that is going to be broken 6 months down the road.
- Same thing as previous bullet, but Java. Move Android to be Swift or C# based.
- Deprecate the stupid GoogleWallet thing and just adopt bitcoin, for once.
- Don't ever stop organizing Google Summer Of Code please (not everything in this comment was going to be criticism).
If these items get fulfilled, I would be less annoyed about working for Google.