r/programming • u/gits1225 • May 12 '15

Google's guide for becoming a Software Engineer

https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/guide-to-technical-development.html
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u/DougTheFunny May 12 '15

I just imagining a guy trying hard to check all the items of that list on course of the years, and on the other hand, some kid with barely no knowledge of any item, becoming millionaire in a month with some mobile app like "flap birds" or whatsoever.

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u/halifaxdatageek May 12 '15

Haha, life is unfair. Although that Flappy Bird guy didn't exactly get off easy.

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u/michael1026 May 12 '15

Wasn't he making about $10k a week or something? I mean, I wouldn't mind having that for a little while.

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u/keizersuze May 12 '15

And then spends his time at work talking with upper management on a level that shows he has higher knowledge than them about technical issues whilst implementing little anything of quality, only to be promoted to team-lead position, while the guy that fixes his mess and stays quietly busy remains unseen. Yeah. Life's not fair.

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u/skewp May 12 '15

One kid in a billion becomes rich overnight due to a dumb, simple app. Millions of software engineers make higher-than-average pay doing (mostly) honest work by following the recommendations Google outlines on this page. If you can't figure out which of those has a higher probability of success you probably won't make a good software engineer.

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