Tech Stack I use at Google as a Software Engineer

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Frontend
2:05 - Backend
5:45 - Internal tools

#google #neetcode #techstack

[beyondlimits]

Surprised you guys dont use google docs as an IDE

[tedtran]

1. Angular
2. GraphQL
3. Java
4. Guice
5. gRPC
6. C++
7. An absurd amount of internal tools

[yichizhang]

Working at Google right now (got a job thanks to you :D). It's definitively a tech island. Feels like I have to learn everything from scratch.

[tianhaozhao]

90% of tech companies in China use Java based tech stack. The interviews contain very in-depth Java knowledge which requires you to read the source code of some Java basic package.

[LouisChiaki]

The new IDE is just an internal version of VSCode. The build tool is just Bazel. The version control system is an internal version of Mercurial.

[ambreenirshad]

I am eternally grateful to you ! I got my job offer a few days ago and will be starting early August ! Your videos really helped me get the job. I hope I can see you around at Google :)

[osxs__]

I work at AWS on Account Administration, we run with Java and most of our micro-services with Native AWS server less products (Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, CDK). We also use a lot of internal tools for ticketing, code review, CI/CD etc.

[sKid]

The problem with all that internal tooling is you become completely used to it and dependent on it. If you ever leave it’ll be like you cut your hands off and you’re using prosthetics now. Same goes for all layers of abstraction. Make sure you don’t lose the underlying skills you have.

[ericepperson]

As someone who works in software support, a lot of people would be surprised about the amount of Java that is used at Enterprise scale. Python, Rust, Go, C++ get a lot of attention from the programming adjacent communities, but there are few languages as prevalent as Java in the server space that can handle Networking at scale.

[igh]

I'm surprised to hear that Google doesn't use Spring framework for Java projects. I'm korean and like more than half of the back-end software engineer job postings in South Korea requires Java and Spring framework experience for entry level positions.

[minzi]

Why use Java when you work at the company that made Go?

[anicolaspp]

I think there is no problem is you talk about piper or blaze, there are a bunch of talks about them from back 2017 or so. I also believe the same about Boq and Pod, bunch of talks from ServerConf.

It would also be nice to explain the languages we use at Google and when. Java and C++ for backend Servers to receive external traffic, JS for frontend, Go for internal services and managed infrastructure(this is mostly my space in GCP), etc…

[KieranCrown]

I use React Native, Typescript, Terraform, Git, GraphQL, Swift, and Kotlin at my job ❤

[stumblinzz]

"angular has a certain way of doing things thats consistent across projects".
I wish more tech would be and stay consistent with practices throughout their lifecycle.

[oakvillian]

Hearing that the tools make things simple is so so huge. Most companies could never.

[adarshkumar]

Angular is not surprising. GCP and Firebase are prime examples, but GraphQL? That hit like a truck

[yang]

Every time Neetcode has a complaint about Java, he has to work with another Java project.

[perezident]

This is a lot 😵‍💫

At work, I use Express, Inverisfy, MongoDB, React, and TypeScript across everything.

[plankton]

I personally think that backend is better than frontend. Most business logic (i.e. the interesting stuff) happens in the backend, and playing with microservices is fun.

[jmonify]

I was not surprised by GraphQL. It is an excellent open sourced tool. I am somewhat surprised by the lack of Kotlin and Rust usage. I was aware of Java and C++ being used and I understand that large scale apps are near impossible to swap out a language. I just figured there would be a more inclination to use something like Kotlin or Rust for microservices especially considering Oracle's and Google's history. There was also no mention of GCP or even using Apigee with GraphQL so it makes me wonder if they use their own internal tooling for APIs. Other than that, very informative. thanks for the share.