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But for about ten years, at least, the majority of Google swe rules have been talked about as "just moving protobufs", which is effectively the same. If your job is just plumbing other people's designs for existing products, how fun can it be?


I think you do not understand what A Google SWE actually does


It's a running joke internally. But not always far from the truth. Translating business level protobufs into solution level protobufs is indeed the job of entire teams sometimes.


to a certain extent, this is correct:

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” — Linus Torvalds




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