Someone asked me today about the differences between Google’s and Facebook’s engineering cultures. Based on what I know, here’s what I said:
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For most of its life, Google *didn't have* frontend engineers. It was a culture of backend (C++ old-skool, Java nu-skool) that had hired a few folks that could do both and tolerated them doing it.
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Things have changed in the past 5 years, but 5 years is less than a quarter of the company's age, and founders weren't interested in frontend. Closure/Soy/GSS powered most properties since ~08, but wasn't staffed.
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