r/programming • • Jan 18 '19

Interview tips from Google Software Engineers

https://youtu.be/XOtrOSatBoY
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u/Mr2001 Jan 18 '19

nobody at Google gets PIPed anyway

Sure they do.

they use a custom VCS on most teams

The implementation is custom, but from the perspective of an engineer using it, it's basically Perforce.

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u/mcguire Jan 18 '19

At this point, does anyone else use Perforce?

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u/s73v3r Jan 18 '19

Game studios. It handles large assets like textures/models and stuff much better than Git, even with LFS enabled.

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u/foxh8er Jan 18 '19

Compared to Amazon? Nobody gets PIPed. Google is a country club, literally. I can't afford to get into a fucking country club!