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Re:Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical roles” only by myself248 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:52AM (#32079708)
> keep existing products healthy

Are we talking about the same Google?

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Re:Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical roles” only by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:05AM (#32082890)
We are. Because of Google's sheer size, it does have user-visible outages, but the ratio of outages to (uptime X services supported) is pretty much best-of-industry.

... it has to be, because at their size, outages are catastrophic for people.

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Re:Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical roles” only by saagarjha on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:16AM (#32080768)
Someone needs to keep things running for search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, …
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