College Kids Who Writes Cool Apps
I came across an article about Douglas Merrill, the Google’s cheif information officer, and his recent interview with Wall Street Journals. You can read this article here. Basically instead of forcing employees to only work on certain technologies, he encourages Google’s employees to work on whatever technology they want. After reading this I found it really odd that companies don’t let their employees to choose the technology that they want to work on. But then I got reminded of the time that I used to work in Canada Revenue and how restricted we were in using technology. It’s very sad to be a developer and your access to internet is only through a single common web kiosk shared by other people.
What it interested me the most was the comments left by some people particularly one of them. I image captured the comment and posted below. Feel free to read it
It is very interesting to note that most of the technologies we deal with everyday like Google, Flickr, Facebook, Microsoft, Mac and so many more are in fact developed by college kids or even high schools kids who changed the world just by writing cools apps.