Google's definition of productivity is different than yours.
In general: Code reviews are strict and long. Style and structure matters more than anywhere else I ever worked. Everything requires extensive testing. You better have a design doc / PRD, some tickets, good commenting, and unit tests.
People will happily point out and roast you for any potential bugs, race conditions, deadlocks, bad style, and sloppy work.
Mediocrity in this regard is not generally tolerated. The standard of development is much higher.
But yes, it's slow. If that's your measure of productivity, they'll fail.
Except it doesn't matter because the goal of a SWE at Google is mostly to keep the ship sailing.
In general: Code reviews are strict and long. Style and structure matters more than anywhere else I ever worked. Everything requires extensive testing. You better have a design doc / PRD, some tickets, good commenting, and unit tests.
People will happily point out and roast you for any potential bugs, race conditions, deadlocks, bad style, and sloppy work.
Mediocrity in this regard is not generally tolerated. The standard of development is much higher.
But yes, it's slow. If that's your measure of productivity, they'll fail.
Except it doesn't matter because the goal of a SWE at Google is mostly to keep the ship sailing.