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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by yongjik on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:29PM (#24256530)
I worked at Google for several years until 2015 - one of the running inside jokes was that increasing a border by one pixel is a full-quarter project with a PM, a tech lead, and multiple engineers.

It's not like most people would want more complexity (at least I hope not), but somehow it kept happening, and I feel at least some of it is cultural.

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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by bxparks on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:46PM (#24256624)
At the risk of over generalizing, I think 2 things are going on:

1) They hire a lot of smart but inexperienced people. I've noticed that those kinds of programmers often write clever and overengineered things, which means overly complex.

2) They get promoted for creating complicated things. They don't get promoted for writing simple things.

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