I have the same background: I find the code quality at G to be quite a lot higher (and test pass-rate, and bug report-rate lower) than News Feed, which was a total shit-show of anything-goes. I still hold trauma from being oncall for Feed. 70 bugs added to my queue per day.
The flip side is of course that I could complete 4 rounds of QuickExperiment and Deltoid to get Product Market Fit, in the time it takes to get to dogfooding for any feature in Google.
The flip side is of course that I could complete 4 rounds of QuickExperiment and Deltoid to get Product Market Fit, in the time it takes to get to dogfooding for any feature in Google.