I am seeing a massive deterioration of GOOG products lately. Android studio corrupts its own cache after a couple of test projects. When searching for the error in quotes, Google is certain that no answer exists in internet. Bing immediately tells me how to fix it and references stackoverflow. Bard is failing even the simplest math problems. The assistant running on Google home cannot answer simple questions and starts random music instead of the one it has been asked to play. Most of these things worked ok before.
This is what happens when you are in a rush and hire a ton of low bar ppl. I remember how prestigious it was 7 to 10 years back to get into google. That thing is slowly going down hill and now no one cares I suppose except the one who gets hired and posts gmail to google.com has been their lives dream 🤣
I remember google had communal mouthwash in the mens room, an I thought, holy shit what a place! Now I realize googlers are these weird asses from california that live in polcules like SBF.
And Google maps too… next time , you are out and about and look up traffic on Google maps , make sure to compare with Apple Maps. I found shorter routes on apple.
Same with CityMapper. Google Maps routinely fails to spot advantageous transfers and doesn't keep up with service changes.
Yup. Google used to be a dream company for most people. And their products were kick ass, no one even came close. If you told me 10 years ago, msft would be competing with Google on multiple aspects, I would laugh. Well, not anymore. I guess that's what happens with most companies that start as dream projects that people are really passionate about. But then turn into giant organizations sucking up to the leadership and stakeholder.
Complacency combined with lack of leadership. The founders left a while ago maybe that made a difference? I wasn’t there then so idk for sure.
Google results have turned to crap too. Every result above the fold is sponsored and the first page is just spam.
Because Leetcode is still the “only way” to find good SWEs. So instead of sharpening your skills at home, you are stuck solving useless puzzles until you become a principal engineer😊 WTF is CAP theorem, how about I solve N-Queens in optimal time instead
YouTube algo is useless now
So not just for me lol
Lol lately? Been a decade already
Its no wonder bard can't do math. I was interviewing with kubernetes creators and they were being dicks. They said prove to me the algorithm works, so I start in with some simple equations. I have an equation which I convert to a summation and extract the constant factor. At that point they were lost and lost it. "You can't do that! You can't do that! How did you pull C out of the sum!" I learned that dark magic in algebra class, 8th grade, idiots. CS people are not math people.
I read this thrice and it's still gibberish.
Not gibberish. I followed it
Even search has totally gone to shit.