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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by ffggvv on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:30PM (#28487625)
sometimes you just need someone who can write super simple scripts to help process/clean some data or do grunt work that none of the devs want to do. And sometimes this need is just temporary for 4 months etc.

I wouldn't waste a google dev's on grunt work that any coder could do.

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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by cylde_frog on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:01PM (#28489090)
It's funny how arrogant you seem to have gotten working at Google. Looking through your post history a couple of years ago you were doing grunt work you would see as below you now. The belief that all Google employees are doing hard innovative work is untrue. A large portion are centering divs and wrangling JSON.
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by pertymcpert on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:50AM (#28489511)
Hey now...this is Google we're talking about.

They're wrangle protobufs.

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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by ffggvv on Saturday September 11, 2021 @01:37PM (#28493939)
this account has had multiple owners.. i’ve never done grunt work
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by pertymcpert on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:48AM (#28536026)
Why?
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Re:Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers by rcpt on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:51PM (#28488159)
> who can write super simple scripts to help process/clean some data

If you can figure how to make that process "super simple" you can make staff engineer. Source: am L5 SWE at Google spending most of time wrangling unclean data

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