Lots of good stuff going on. Good teams medium pace.
Good teams medium pace. Hard to enact change. Need to go with the flow
Youtube has started showing ridiculous amount of ads recently, and 2 ads back-to-back at that. Is there anyway to block ads on iOS and android tv, other than paying for premium? Apparently, there is this app for androidtv (SmartTubeNext on github) with 6K stars, but the dev is russian (or has russ...Read more
I have an Android developer onsite interview setup with Google. The HR said it will 2 coding rounds and 2 design rounds. What should I expect in the design rounds? Posts I could find about design rounds are mostly designing backend system and nothing about Android. Anyone who gave an interview rece...Read more
Want to know couple things? How good or bad is to join teal who uses elements? How is work life balance in upcoming orgs like shorts? Thanks
No layoff for following teams it looks like: Deepmind Cloud Android YouTube Chrome Waymo
Blind be like Everything sucks: search, youtube, maps, gmail, chrome, android, drive, gsuite, gemini Blinders really hate Google
Google is down 11% in the past month and up 50% in the past year. Bull case - Google Search, Youtube, Android with gen. AI assistant Bear case - Pichai
Any benefits Google has that are hidden? Like microsoft gives free game pass to employees and employee store has decent discounts on software and hardware. Does Google have anything similar for their products? (youtube premium, youtube TV, android stuff, etc)?
YouTube: saturated Search: threatened Android, Maps, Playstore: stagnant Chrome: vulnerable Gmail: safe Cloud: competition Docs, Meet, Calendar, Bard, Assitant, Lens, Photos: okay What will happen?
Im looking at a role there. As a Googler are you expecting more layoffs this year? what’s the mood in the company? If think your team is vulnerable what is your role, location and team? Is it being driven by cost cutting? Or unprofitable products or businesses? Or AI? Outside or search, hardware, Yo...Read more
Google kills a lot but brews a lot. Maps Gmail Search YouTube Android Cloud Docs/Sheet/Slides etc Drive Play Photo Pixel Meet/Calendar just to name a few
Pros: - Pixel phones - Chrome browser, Chromebook, Chromecast - Android operating system - Android auto for cars - YouTube - Gmail - Google photos - news - cloud - waymo - maps - verily - nest - play store - ytmusic - Google drive - Google podcasts - Google office apps - verily - Waze - classroom...Read more
I have almost zero interaction with Microsoft in life and work. Office355 -> Google doc etc Windows -> Mac On the other hand I expect a lot of people can’t live without Google search just like me. Majority of phones are on android. Majority of browsers are chrome. Majority of email accounts ar
What are some good podcast apps for Android? Tried YouTube Music which I otherwise use for music but for podcasts it's a hard pass for me. P.S. whoever decided to deprecate Podcasts: fuck you!
According to this, there seems to be 18k engineers https://increditools.com/how-many-software-engineers-does-google-have/ Google has products like Chrome, Map, GCP, Search, YouTube, Android, Pixels, Google Play, Suites, Gmail, Drive, Ads Is it too much or too little or just right
Pixel -> falling Search -> falling GCP -> rising incrementally but B2B enterprise software not in Google's DNA Map -> buggy Android -> subpar Waymo -> glimpse of hope but not really sellable YouTube -> already saturated to the full capacity Chrome -> not innovative Playstore -> sta
Google lacks a social media presence, Snap lacks good user monetization. The synergy is there: - Google acquires Snap to build its social media presence - combine YouTube Shorts and Snapchat Discover to compete against TikTok - integrate Google account with Snap login to improve user acquisition fu...Read more
Thoughts on Ads (search or discover) GEO YouTube (living room) Android Google play (platform?) L6 design TC ~400$ 12 YOE HALP #GOOGLE #design #interviews #Google
Why leave it to Nvidia and Xiaomi to build Android TV device? It's a huge opportunity to provide full turnkey home automation with its own Android dongle w/ Chromecast built in, home hub, and YouTube TV.
I'm thinking Apple music? But I currently have Android. I might be switching back to iphone in a year. I used to like youtube, because it's super convenient, but I'm trying to use youtube less.
Can somebody please explain why the YouTube comments were moved, in the Android app at least. Thank you for your time. #engineering #software #leetcode