Matt_Cutts

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by Matt_Cutts 2y ago
For what it's worth, I pinged someone about it.
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
For what it's worth, I worked with Dr. Seales while getting my undergrad degree. Happy to vouch that he and his team are great humans. This is such a fascinating problem, and could have real benefits for society. Imagine uncovering anc
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
This is a pretty intriguing contrarian view. I recall fielding many such inquiries during my Google days. Of course, ideally every company (and organization) would offer fantastic customer service in every situation. In a world where that d
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
If folks are looking for another Tracy Kidder book, I'd recommend _House_. It's the story of building one house in Massachusetts in 1985 or so. Kidder goes into the life of the buyers and the builders, and the result is surprising
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
I wrote the first version of SafeSearch, Google's family filter. That led to the insight that Google could be spammed. That led to fights with Google's founders--Sergey thought Google couldn't be spammed, for example. Eventua
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
I came here to note the same connection. I forwarded both articles to a spam person at Google.
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by Matt_Cutts 4y ago
(Disclosure: I invested in this company at YC back in 2018, when it was Osh’s Affordable Pharmaceuticals) That article is a bit short on details. Some other recent articles I thought were more helpful included https://www.healio.
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
For data science, we've seen things from looking at disability claims appeals of Veterans and how those are handled, to looking for anomalies and malicious attacks on login.gov, to looking at Medicare payments and how to improve that p
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
And if anyone has any questions about the US Digital Service, please ask! It's a really remarkable window of time right now to make government work better for the public using technology and design.
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
If you wanted to try a short tour, now is a very good time; things are quite remote-friendly right now. Then when the COVID situation is better, you'd have better information about whether the DC trade-off is worthwhile.
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
The work we're doing helps everyone from Veterans to medical patients. Making government services responsive, accessible, and transparent is really important right now. Please consider applying, or just ask here if you have any additio
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
I mean, if you wanted to do a short tour (~6-9 months) right now, you could probably start and stay remote for most of that time. In general, it's really useful to be around the table with stakeholders. In a COVID world, that's le
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
We could really use some folks to help on impactful, important projects if people are willing to help. Thanks!
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
The PDF above is really good, but there's also this recent segment on CBS if you want to get more context: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-...
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
If you're willing to watch a short video, we recently had this segment on CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-us-digital-service-... USDS has been doing a lot of impactful work lately, and we need more e
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
Just to give some examples of the sort of work we're doing recently, we've been assisting the CDC with user research to improve their pages about COVID-19, we've worked with the SBA on their disaster loan assistance program,
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by Matt_Cutts 6y ago
We've been helping quite a few folks based on the current COVID-19 situation. There's important work to do in the federal government right now.
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
I appreciated the allusion to Conway's Law here. I will say that in a government of 2M+ people, there's a ton of problems that are completely non-partisan that everyone would like to solve where technical expertise can make a real
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
Fun fact: the reason that USDS applicants (who would work within the Executive Office of the President) have to take a drug test goes to a Clinton-era legal battle that went to the Supreme Court: https://www.latimes.com/arch
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
P.S. If you're looking for some interesting chaos to revitalize your life, have you considered doing a tour of public service? :)
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
Thanks for all the things you did. The Android jank stuff made a big impression on me--you made the value so clear with your work. And also thanks for the rants when something wasn't up to par. I'm thinking about https:/&#x2
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
If anyone has any questions, please let us know. We've been working with partners in the federal government on impactful things.
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
Hey, I would ask her to go ahead and apply--we're always taking applications--and then indicate in the text field that she's closer to a project manager. We have been reworking some of our competencies on product and delivery, but
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
We should definitely be talking to more folks locally in DC. Are there any meetups that you especially enjoy?
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
Thanks for asking! On the interview process, there's a resume review stage, then a technical interview. If the technical interview goes well, then there's one more technical interview plus a resilience/emotional intelligence&
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
That wasn't us, but I'm glad that it was a good experience for you! Lots of tech in government is getting better these days, and we'd love to have more folks helping up push the state of the art forward.
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
We're typically looking for folks who have experience setting up large-scale systems. When doing this job, it helps to have a few scars (or at least the resilience that comes from pushing for change in difficult situations). And we can
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
Here's an example article from last week about the kind of work we help with: https://governmentciomedia.com/va-radically-streamlining-cla... The US Department of Veterans Affairs recently released a new online tool th
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
We don't really end up building many apps, so you're probably better off finding a closer match to your interests/skills. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
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by Matt_Cutts 7y ago
We are definitely looking for product managers, along with software engineers (e.g. backend, frontend, SRE, data science, security, cloud, API design) and designers (e.g. UX research, service design). For product marketing, the closest role

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