you will be google

Early in my career I worked with a Google team on an open-source project. I didn't like it . Strict reviews, rigid style, heavy testing discipline. Everything felt slow and overengineered. A waste of time. I moved on, and everyone said the obvious thing: you’re not Google, you don’t need to do what Google does. That’s true. But it’s incomplete. Teams don’t stay small and stable. People move.…