Tips for Noogler Engineers is an article on Piaw’s Blog.  Apparently a Noogler is a new Google employee.  The article points out how to climb the Google ladder.  Seems to apply to LM and other large companies.  Sad that mentoring and 20% time are possible bad things – they may get you no credit.  This also agrees with content in How to be a Star at Work on getting on the most important projects, skip the grunge work.

Other good articles:

• Culture.  He talks about innovation at Google, and speed of innovation.
• Twitter Presentation.  Lesson’s from Google and Facebook as you face hyper growth.  Covers technical issues, people, and process.  Most interesting technical comment: don’t build your own general infrastructure stuff.  Most interesting people comment is on promotion systems, and how peer based review systems fail after Dunbar’s Number (~150).  On process, reward the grungy painful work!
• Google and Facebook.  Or more appropriately titled “5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes” – a presentation that Piaw put together for Facebook.  HB needs to read slide #6.  Slide #8 talks about how non-engineers used the peer review bonus program to get engineers to do things for them.  How about tying hiring to management incentives?  Interesting observation on slide #13 – you need to work with “staff engineers,” that is senior engineers, in order to get promoted at Google.