{"id":9,"date":"2013-09-15T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=9"},"modified":"2013-10-06T03:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T03:45:31","slug":"tips-for-noogler-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2013\/09\/15\/tips-for-noogler-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Noogler Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/piaw.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/tips-for-noogler-engineers.html\">Tips for Noogler Engineers<\/a>\u00a0is an article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/piaw.blogspot.com\/\">Piaw&#8217;s Blog<\/a>. \u00a0Apparently a Noogler is a new Google employee.\u00a0 The article points out how to climb the Google ladder.\u00a0 Seems to apply to LM and other large companies.\u00a0 Sad that mentoring and 20% time are possible bad things &#8211; they may get you no credit.\u00a0 This also agrees with content in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Star-Work-Breakthrough-Strategies\/dp\/0812931696\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1379289326&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=How+To+be+a+Star+at+work\">How to be a Star at Work<\/a> on getting on the most important projects, skip the grunge work.<\/p>\n<p>Other good articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piaw.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/culture.html\">Culture<\/a>.\u00a0 He talks about innovation at Google, and speed of innovation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piaw.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/twitter-presentation.html\">Twitter Presentation<\/a>.\u00a0 Lesson&#8217;s from Google and Facebook as you face hyper growth.\u00a0 Covers technical issues, people, and process.\u00a0 Most interesting technical comment: don&#8217;t build your own general infrastructure stuff.\u00a0 Most interesting people comment is on promotion systems, and how peer based review systems fail after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunbar%27s_number\">Dunbar&#8217;s Number<\/a> (~150).\u00a0 On process, reward the grungy painful work!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piaw.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/facebook-and-google.html\">Google and Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 Or more appropriately titled &#8220;5 Google Engineering Management Mistakes&#8221; &#8211; a presentation that Piaw put together for Facebook.\u00a0 HB needs to read slide #6.\u00a0 Slide #8 talks about how non-engineers used the peer review bonus program to get engineers to do things for them.\u00a0 How about tying hiring to management incentives?\u00a0 Interesting observation on slide #13 &#8211; you need to work with &#8220;staff engineers,&#8221; that is senior engineers, in order to get promoted at Google.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for Noogler Engineers\u00a0is an article on\u00a0Piaw&#8217;s Blog. \u00a0Apparently a Noogler is a new Google employee.\u00a0 The article points out how to climb the Google ladder.\u00a0 Seems to apply to LM and other large companies.\u00a0 Sad that mentoring and 20% time are possible bad things &#8211; they may get you no credit.\u00a0 This also agrees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2013\/09\/15\/tips-for-noogler-engineers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tips for Noogler Engineers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-google"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}