Kind of same for me. Before I switched to Android, on the iOS app store I was actually able to find interesting apps, but I guess I just had too much time to spend sifting through them lol. To me, the Google Play store is less organized. Now I seem to find apps more from others' recommendations.
I only interned at Google but I also really liked protocol buffers, somehow it seems very structured and defined to me, and better than Java. But this could just be that I haven't worked with better things... Lol