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I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter some month back. The experience was so unpersonal, I felt like a soulless robot: I just got a link to a HackerRank test and solved some automated puzzles with no one but me and the clock ticking. How I understand coding tests is that there should be a human being that evaluates how you approach a problem, not a fully automated assignment.

Well, if a country if full of people believing COVID is a hoax and wearing a mask is useless - what do you think you will get? You get exactly what's happening now.

Is there a study that tells if the current wave is related to Kumbh Mela that was celebrated extensively?

If a business makes very little profit - why not closing it? It makes no sense to keep something alive that only works out when you pay your employees basically nothing.

The best argument against GCP is indeed the unpredictability with which Google turns down services. On the other hand you have Microsoft which still supports - let me give an extreme example - Silverlight (!). If Silverlight would be a Google product, all support would have ended years ago.

Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Teams was present long before the pandemic.

This is a classic form of propaganda: The title suggests clearly that Huawei has spied on a Dutch mobile network when none of this is true, so single evidence is given that they really did it.

One of the big mistakes we the OSS developers made is to give people the impression that software is not associated with costs. Be it personal time you put into developemnt, be it the time you spend fixing problems someone else has. All these things are costs for yourself and people don't value that.

Now that you mention it, this is a pretty evil strategy. It may seem that developers and businesses have all freedom to create and run their sides and apps as they wish but if they don't comply to Google's view how the web and apps should be they... ... rank very low on search results and are therefore displaced by competitors that play along the rules of Google ... don't get into the Play Store or get kicked out ... can't express an opinion on any Google platform that goes against their (vaguely formulated) terms of use, otherwise their account gets blocked in no time.

In a lot of rows they claim "No equivalent" available. If a company tells me that there is no competitor equivalent for one of their products, I would say thank you and resesrch on my own.

For me it would still be questionable how quickly they react when some of their algorithms wrongly classify one of the applications I host as malicious.

And given how easy it is to e.g. trick the Youtube algorithm to believe a video is hot using fake engagement, I very much dislike the worldview they have that algorithms can solve everything in 2021.

Why should I trust Google to compare GCP, AWS, Azure? If I really want to compare services, I would do it on my own, look for independent websites or pay an independent company to does it for me.

Working in one of the companies OP mentioned. Don't assume that work at FAANG is automatically "interesting". You will do work others think is required for the company, "interesting" is never the key someone higher on the ladder is striving for.

If you want to work on interesting topics, start a side project and try to turn it into a company.

Those cookie warnings are a classic ill-conceived solution. No user reads it, everyone is just clicking "Accept". So what privacy gain do we get?