So sad. I met Bob once at an interview at Square in 2012 for the final interview. I believe he was the inventor of Google’s guice dependency injection library and the dagger library. I bombed the interview. I liked him anyway. RIP.
Exact same experience in 2010. He was internet famous for guice, CTO of Square and former lead of Android library dev. Asked about my flight and was generally just friendly.
Before that I had even cold-emailed him about something related to the Square CC reader and he responded.
Anyway I didn't get the job either, but it was impossible not to like him in my very limited experience. Terribly tragic.
The extent and popularity of Square libraries in Android development is crazy. Whenever you download an app I think there's a pretty good chance some of Bob's code is in there.
