WHAT I LEARNED GETTING ACQUIRED BY GOOGLE
Many good observations
"On the other hand there was the discovery that most Search improvements are manually reviewed by engineers through ‘side-by-side’ comparisons between old and new results…on spreadsheets!
One may expect Google engineering to largely consist of implementing PhD level algorithms, and while that’s sometimes true, much of a search or AI engineer’s job involves looking at examples, spotting patterns, hand labelling data, and other non-scalable, in-the-weeds analysis. This seems to be generally true among the best AI teams"
Another thing is getting alignment is extremely important and needs to be done as early as possible. Align with leads, align with peers, align with external teams, align with okrs.