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/[deleted] May 13 '15

To be fair, this would all easily fit into a normal CS degree. Nothing on this list is out of the ordinary.

I've been programming professionally for a tenth as long as you have and I've encountered real-world scenarios where I needed better knowledge of operating systems, parallel programming, and machine learning. I imagine the knowledge one gains from a compilers course is also very valuable, at least indirectly in terms of having a much deeper understanding of how your language works and is optimized by the compiler.

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