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<?php /** @noinspection PhpUndefinedMethodInspection */
namespace App\Console\Commands;
use Altek\Accountant\Context;
use Altek\Accountant\Notary;
use App\Models\Audit;
use App\Models\Ledger;
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
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Created October 29, 2019 02:45 — forked from kaiwren/gist:1283905
Steve Yegge's SOA post
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various effort