Second week on the new job

It's been a busy week. Google has a ton of training stuff for Nooglers. A lot of it consists of learning secret stuff that may never be spoken of with the outside world. Fun stuff. But I've been more impressed by the real difference in attitude developers have here.

Every company says "you should write unit tests for all your code". This is the first time I've actually had training on how to do such a thing. And there's tons of infrastructure to make writing these tests easy. Then, every time you want to check in code you have to get it code reviewed. This ensures that all coding standards are followed, and makes sure everything is unit tested. But more importantly it makes everyone feel a group responsibility for the code. It also ensures that everyone in the group knows how well everyone can program. This means the peer review process actually works.

I'm having a great time so far, although my mind is numb everyday from information overload. I suppose that's a good thing. I look forward to actually contributing in the near future.