A former Google engineer posted yesterday on his personal blog the reasons that made him resign from the web giant, alleging, among other reasons for his departure, the company has "obsolete structure. "
"The infrastructure for scalable software that Google boasts of having both is obsolete, "wrote engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna, who until last month was a member of the team responsible for maintaining and Wave of the late creator of Instant Google interface.
After scratching the fame of modern hotspots of the giant web, he continues: "Do not get me wrong, its hardware and data center are certainly the best in the world and as far as I know no one is around to match them. But the programs that run on these machines have more than 10 years, designed to build search engines and indexes, and they are truly aged, "he says.
In view of Prasanna, this aging was because Google programs were designed by "engineers isolated in a vacuum and not by developers who have needs for tools, " he says.
Another reason given by the engineer to leave the boat was too much competition within the buildings of the company: "Like any large company Google often reward their employees based on analysis of their performance. This at first looks good, but when you're a hacker at heart as I can be a death sentence. It is often more important to mark their territory and defend it than to actually do what it takes to finish a job. This means that work on research, development, APIs, user interface and performance, without leaving anything behind, it might be bad for your career, "he concludes.
