I’m more curious about your job OP. What do you do at the Pokémon company?
Catching em all
Interesting
I think this has become kind of a marketing scheme. Many do it deliberately so that people will make posts about them. Just a thought.
Makes sense for smaller companies or startups trying to get attention. But for Airbnb I don't think this could be a motive.
For airbnb it's a reminder that this app has been sitting there collecting dust for a while, maybe it's time to turn off notifications or uninstall it.
This is the quality of engineering I am coming to expect.
Whats your favourite pokemon
Pretty sure their bookings spiked.
Why y’all say it’s an intern?
Can any SWE explain what was the guy trying to do and what actually happened?
Not sure either, but if I were to guess. Intern (or someone dumb like me) had some debugging code in beta, raised a PR with it not removed, and it got overlooked so it stayed in the codebase.
Probably some new notification trigger but they accidentally pointed the URI to prod rather than dev
Plot twist: it was actually a newly hired senior staff engineer
FYI, airbnb has not had a single swe intern since 2019.
This is false because there is four of us lol
I know all offers were rescinded in 2020. 2021 I know they 100% didn't hire. Applications were open for this summer but I also heard that everything was rescinded the moment people started getting verbal offers. I guess 4 of you made it through?
I love interns ❤️
Wait is this actually true? lol. on my last day interning, I told my friends all the full-timers are gonna miss us since the campus is so empty. but he was like nah they're gonna be glad that we're gone since there's not gonna be a line to get food anymore. do you guys actually love us?
No