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If WA did things like silently degrading/removing E2EE, wouldn't it be discoverable by an independent security researcher?

WA seems large enough that the security community would put in that effort periodically.

That seems like something you could build. There's a handful of YC companies working on that.

I don't think FANG companies are likely early adopters of that. They are all relatively conservative with hiring. Navigating the organization to find an internal champion who's incentives are aligned seems really tough. Internal established recruiting teams seem disincentivized to use a 3rd party certification. Using that might reduce the number/importance of the internal recruiting team.

Deletion is very much a technical/organizational challenge.

Imagine some engineer writing some feature you've never heard of and they decide they need data in a different format. They write a job to do this.

Now imagine that job somehow has a bug which prevents the deletion system from understanding that copy exists. That bug could be non-obvious to find.

Knowing more or specific technologies isn't what makes someone a good engineer.

Practice identifying problems, taking full ownership of them and fully thinking through and delivering solutions.

This is way easier if you find a problem that you're interested in.

If you're not able to sink your teeth into any good problems, at least pay attention to people around you who do this well so you can copy them in the future.