I’ve always been curious about this:
At every company I’ve ever worked, there’s never enough time to code everything “right”.
By “right” I mean, the whole codebase has great abstractions, every corner case is handled, great error handling, etc...
Is google the exception to this? Is everything high quality? Or do Googlers still look at their codebases and think “hmm thats kinda hacky”.
And as a follow up: what happens when there’s a deadline crunch at Google? Does code quality take a hit or is every project extended until “Google” quality code is reached.
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It is not unreasonable to be asked to reimplement your feature in another way because it is cleaner or makes the design more extensible. You also write 50 lines of feature code and support it with 200 lines of unit and integration tests
It is also not uncommon for others to rewrite your code two years later to conform to new coding guidelines, replace deprecated components or for any other reason and it is a very highly valued contribution that can get you promoted if done on a large scale.
This affects feature velocity and puts a lot of toil on devs but once you get used to it you produce 10x better code than what you would normally do outside Google
Deadlines? Those get missed very often, unless they coincide with something publicly announced (eg stadia launch, GML event, etc)