Random stuff about working at Google, or A Delphi guy walks into Google...

Working with C++ hasn't really been a huge barrier; if you don't mind the painfully long build times. The Chromium developer builds are structured to be more incremental and allow for small, localized changes to build relatively fast. However, many times doing a rebase/update on the local git repository will almost always require a full rebuild. Even on my 24 core, 48 thread machine, builds can take about 1-2 hours. Building on a top-end Surface Book is easily 2.5x that.

Code is the language, formatting is the dialect.

When working a team environment with a large codebase, it quickly becomes apparent that the code itself is the primary manner in which the team communicates on a day-to-day basis. The code embodies the ideas and thoughts of the author. On the Google Chrome team, no change is ever committed until it is reviewed by the "owners" of the code. Owners are defined on a per directory basis such that any change to a file within that directory, must be approved by one of the owners.