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Ex-Google Tech Lead talks you through the #1 engineering practice: Design Docs. Get your free
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The "Design Doc" is a highly regarded and nearly cultural requirement for engineers at Google --
and for good reason. It helps organize ideas, build consensus, document code, save time, launch
projects, and summarize the depth & breadth of a project & its accomplishments. In this exciting
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Boogers Guy 1 month ago

Can you do a video on "How to write devious design docs to support your anti patterns"

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John Mcclane 1 month ago (edited)

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Nathaniel Dequito 1 month ago

Im just here to watch him drink coffee

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Pavel Janečka 1 month ago

For a design dog, go to 8:09

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ShavingSeagull 1 month ago

Who's the TechLead?

I don't think I got it.

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/dev/null 1 month ago

you might be the TechLead, but I am the Tech1337

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Manos Seferidis 4 weeks ago

You forgot the most important thing. Design docs forces you to think about your project in detail and thus it always brings up some things you else
would think about when it might have been too late.

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