Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4 Months

Re:Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4... by never_inline on Thursday April 13, 2023 @11:21AM (#35556851)

Going by this logic, most of these shut-down projects should be coming from India (and possibly eastern European countries?), where the bar of DSA problems is much higher due to competition.

I too dislike the pervasiveness of the narrow type of DSA problems (because it comes at the cost of other computer science topics, scales linearly with practice after some point, and selects for people who have time to practice them). But DSA puzzles aren't what you should be blaming for closing down stadia.

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Re:Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4... by jacknews on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:56AM (#35569027)

"where the bar of DSA problems is much higher due to competition."

I don't see any logic there. Companies in the rest of the world are less focused on DSA as a hiring metric, in my understanding.

Why are Google projects closed? Why are they started?

I believe Google are heavily focused on data and metrics and algorithms, and I think that is definitely a factor.

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