In my pre-startup life I worked at Google, a company that has some prettyincredible, internal-only technology that you won't find anywhere else. Anentire engineering culture has developed around the availability of thesetechnologies, and it's pretty firmly rooted at this point. At Google, things are"just done" in a certain way that you don't get points for questioning. Some ofthe ones that surprised me when I was there:
But one cultural practice struck me as so utterly bizarre and backwards th