> A startup probably won't be able to afford the standard of engineering that you can find at places like Google.
A "standard of engineering at Google"? You must be joking.
Best examples of engineering I have ever seen were done at 5-15 people startups.
I'm proud of participating in some of those. FAANG on the other hand is a mire of bullshit.
Yes, I do mean it. The approach to data migrations, feature flags and testing with fakes that themselves have conformance tests, has been of a high engineering standard in my team. Automated release to production Monday to Thursday.
I can easily see it being different elsewhere, of course.
A "standard of engineering at Google"? You must be joking.
Best examples of engineering I have ever seen were done at 5-15 people startups. I'm proud of participating in some of those. FAANG on the other hand is a mire of bullshit.