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> People who can make $500k/year through connections they make contributing to opensource projects could most likely just apply to a FAANG company directly

This vastly overestimates the efficiency of FAANG hiring channels.

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Yes, like the Brew guy interview at Google.

For context: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

The tweet from Brian Acton[0] that someone replied with is truly legendary. I want to frame that and put it in the lobby if I ever found a successful business.

[0] https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383

People seem to assume Google was wrong not to hire him.

Is Google in the business of building open source package managers?

If not, why should his experience there mean he should have gotten the job?

Because he develops a tool that other google developers use daily. If hiring him and directing his efforts leads to even a 0.1% productivity improvement in those developers, it would be Worth it.

Google devs dont use homebrew.

The author of homebrew seems to think they do. I was quoting him.

They don’t

Interesting! Did you work there? Do they have an internal package manager of some kind?

(in a meek voice) ...do they use MacPorts?

Not OP, but Googler here. We use an internal Linux distro for all our development. It's very similar to Ubuntu (so the default package manager is apt). People who have a Macbook use it as a thin client to ssh into their Linux desktops. So OS X package manager isn't really needed or used.

They cannot work remote if there's no wifi?

Apt -- that means it's a Debian based distro right? Interesting that it's not Fedora

Guessing you're not on the iOS team :)

The year of the Linux Desktop

You are trying to say they are using a different OSX package manager?

Incorrect. I know several people working on Google projects as temps (with Google-provided laptops and @google.com domains) and with the code and technologies they're working with there is no way they can work without Homebrew. Maybe it's different for full-time employees but I doubt it.

Or underestimates how many others they compete with

What if among x00 ppl actually talented enough to work there, maybe faang only needs to hire x ppl

That's no problem for faang but could be for those who applied

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