What kind of people does Google need?

Engineering students must pay attention to practical ability

From the IT industry, the overall situation is really grim. For example, Google is still recruiting people, but the requirements may be higher than before, and fewer people are recruited than before. But so are other IT companies. I think the practical abilITy is still very important, whether it is undergraduate, master or doctor, maybe not in liberal arts or other aspects, but at least in engineering, a writer who is good at writing papers and even winning prizes will come to IT companies to apply for the positions of senior researchers and senior engineers. If he can't compete with undergraduates and do programming work, he won't be competitive. Therefore, I said that I must have strong hands-on ability, and often I go to colleges and universities to do recruitment. Our requirements for hands-on ability, such as writing100,000 codes, students can't believe it, saying that they only wrote 2,000. Sometimes I complain that the school doesn't have this opportunity, but writing code is my choice, and I can work in the summer vacation. Strong hands-on ability, I think this last chance can still be obtained.

Excerpt from Kai-Fu Lee's blog