Do you guys recommend picking chrome book or MacBook for SWE?
Get a Linux laptop
This
... That is not a chromebook
Chrome book really ?
What does TC have to do with it? Does google make you pay for your work laptop out of pocket?
There’s no need to be able to afford anything at FAANG, the companies pay for your work machine, it’s not an out of pocket expense.
Do they allow you to pick a windows machine? TC 290 PM
No, I believe it's chromebook or MacBook
Allowed but generally discouraged. Any cli tools used internally will be *nix prioritized
New MacBooks don’t have proper function/escape buttons. I have one, and the keyboard is easily the worst I’ve worked with in forever. If all you’re going to be using it is remote access, then having a better keyboard >> familiarity with the OS.
TC or GTFO
Of coz MacBook. SWE at google uses it as terminal/browser. It has nothing to do with features of the laptop as long as it has the best screen.
Chromebook if you are a non technical PM or manager. MacBook for everyone else.
... a Chromebook? I thought those were glorified chrome browser machines, has that changed? Can you run dev tools on them now? (vs code, vim, emacs, git, etc etc?)
Idk, Google recommends me to pick chrome book, but I'm more used to using a MacBook
Google dev tools are mostly online/via ssh to your Linux dev machine. I picked MacBook because I’m more used to using it and the screen is bigger