<story><title>Google+ Redesigned</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+DanielleBuckley/posts/AnaA1XCANWm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>I mean, engineers are generally pretty smart people, I don&amp;#x27;t think anybody within the company thinks Google+ is killing it. But the thing is, I would imagine that if you work at Google you are going to work on &amp;quot;unsexy&amp;quot; products too. Working on Google+ today is probably not worse than say working on the Ads Platform or some random internal reporting tool. It&amp;#x27;s not super mega exciting, but it&amp;#x27;s a job and you get paid.</text></item><item><author>awesomerobot</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s it like to work on the Google+ team? are they all kind of blindly into it, or is there any sort of &amp;quot;yeah yeah, we know&amp;quot; there? I guess it&amp;#x27;s an exciting challenge maybe?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>Actually, I&amp;#x27;d say that the infrastructure and tools work being done on Google+ for the Web are bleeding edge and some of the more exciting stuff being done, so it&amp;#x27;s not unsexy.&lt;p&gt;Look at how fast the new + loads, and open up the sources tab in your browser and look at how the JS is split. The way Closure Compiler is slicing up the app into tons of tiny individually loadable, optimized and minified chunks is very awesome. Google+ photos on the Web works the same way.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google+ Redesigned</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+DanielleBuckley/posts/AnaA1XCANWm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mahn</author><text>I mean, engineers are generally pretty smart people, I don&amp;#x27;t think anybody within the company thinks Google+ is killing it. But the thing is, I would imagine that if you work at Google you are going to work on &amp;quot;unsexy&amp;quot; products too. Working on Google+ today is probably not worse than say working on the Ads Platform or some random internal reporting tool. It&amp;#x27;s not super mega exciting, but it&amp;#x27;s a job and you get paid.</text></item><item><author>awesomerobot</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s it like to work on the Google+ team? are they all kind of blindly into it, or is there any sort of &amp;quot;yeah yeah, we know&amp;quot; there? I guess it&amp;#x27;s an exciting challenge maybe?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awesomerobot</author><text>Yes, of course I&amp;#x27;m sure the actual work is valuable as an employee... and to say you&amp;#x27;re working on the Google+ team is to say you&amp;#x27;re working at Google, which is hugely valuable on its own.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m more wondering if there&amp;#x27;s some goal they&amp;#x27;re all working towards... what&amp;#x27;s their mission as a team? What&amp;#x27;s the morale like? Is there a lot of pressure on them to perform better?</text></comment>