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Do you interview for fun?
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What do you think is wrong with a kid who got rejected by 9 colleges?
For me it’s the Bidets. Also the CL UI—GitHub feels like a savage animal compared to the Google infra. But if I go back it’s because I want to take a dump and not have cake batter all over my anus.
Bidet gang was unphased during the toilet paper shortages !
Get a bidet at home and never miss out, even during the pandemic!
Toto C100 is like $350 lol, easily one of my most useful home purchases 🤣
I still do not get difference between $350 and $2500 toto washlets. Do you know what you get for 10x increase in price?
Google has bidets??
Since at least 2007
Not in all locations. Mostly in new California offices
YouTube people never flushed the toilet in the morning. I remember seeing someone’s dump every morning. I don’t miss that at all.
I miss the culture of reusable code and open buganizer. Report a bug in someone else's, fix it yourself. Sure, that rarely happened, but SFDC employees have mastered "not my circus, not my monkeys." Many teams also have mastered how to avoid taking on work requested by other teams, and they won't accept PRs.
Yeah Apple is the exact opposite of Google and it’s nuts. Instead of the global protodb (etc) I have no api references, or at best a neglected GitHub page. Or supporting products when I can’t see the schema. Maddening. At Google I could contribute a change that improves the entire company. But they usually give you a pep talk of all the reasons you shouldn’t bother.
The old, 2000's Google culture. Things started rotting around 2010-2011 with Google+
Absolutely. To this day there is no company for an SWE even remotely close to Google of 2000s
So true. I used to see the bad press, it would be talked about at TGIF, then I'd mostly be convinced they were making reasonable decisions. Google+ was the first major WTF moment, with more to follow. The first PMs made decisions with "don't be evil" in mind. Later PMs inherited the products, thinking it would be ok to erode those decisions just a little, and it took its toll over time.
memegen
Yeah but it just became a source of 24/7 activism and outrage. And the cinimemes got a little old.