Have there been success stories to share?
Things look like shit. I suspect they leak all the good ideas to their close friends in the startup world, and only "invest" in new ML projects. Also the area 120 projects backends largely seem written in C++, which is the biggest self parody of Google yet.
Why is it a self parody ? Can you please explain ?
Most of the projects I've seen that were recruitig people seemed pretty shallow. But hopefully one turns out for the good ...