I've been using Ellipsis for a few months now. I have zero regrets about paying for it now and likely will pay them more in the future as their new features ship.
For a solo engineer like me who's working in multiple codebases across multiple languages, it's excellent as another set of eyes to catch big and small things in a pull request workflow I'm used to (and it has caught more than a few). I'd argue even as a backstop for catching edge cases/screwups that may lead to wasting my time that it's already more than paid for itself.
@gregw134 Thank you for sharing! I've never worked at Google, but really curious what the engineering context is when you say "needs a launch" in the last line.
Guessing: perhaps this means, if someone needs credit for shepherding an improvement to search quality into production, here is a set of known improvements waiting for someone to take ownership.
Exactly. The main way to get promoted at Google is to claim that you launched something important. Results in a lot of busywork and misaligned incentives.
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It's a directly consumer product with a lot of interesting challenges around engineering (how to push large files in realtime at scale), design (we're serious about it), and data-driven, highly measured product design and development.
We're hiring product engineers on:
- iOS
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We're also hiring folks to help with:
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We're VC-backed and YC S11. It's a very small team, with most folks wearing many hats. Relocation provided to the Bay Area if we decide to hire you.
For a solo engineer like me who's working in multiple codebases across multiple languages, it's excellent as another set of eyes to catch big and small things in a pull request workflow I'm used to (and it has caught more than a few). I'd argue even as a backstop for catching edge cases/screwups that may lead to wasting my time that it's already more than paid for itself.