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I disagree based on this interesting story of an incident that reportedly happened at Google approx 3 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805 h

by i336_ 10y ago

I disagree based on this interesting story of an incident that reportedly happened at Google approx 3 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245316 This is all the data I've got on the state of industry; genuinely interested to hear tidbits from anybody that things aren't this ugly nowadays. I'm not in the demographic of people dealing with problematic pasts (and very thankfully so; I don't envy those who are, at all) but I think that reasonable analysis of situations like what is described in those links is not at all too much to ask (?!), and I wouldn't want to touch an employer who deals with such situations in the way that is described in those links. (Also, if you go through the user profiles of the usernames who wrote those two comments - based on the fact that the first comment links to the second I presume they're the same person - I must note that I observe a general pattern of cynicism which I think has an obvious cause and is sad because of its trivial avoidability.)

jacquesm 10y ago
Thanks for those links. I read them originally but had forgotten.
- i336_ 10y ago
  The entire thread makes for insightful reading. I dug the links out last night and just reread the threads this morning.
sametmax 10y ago
The GAFAs are terrible example of what happens in the industry. They have challenges and behaviors the vast majority of companies don't have. But the world is still running because of millions of not-so-big companies. They have IT needs too. Actually the majority of IT jobs are NOT at IT companies, but in regular companies that need IT like anybody. I've been working in porn during my first 5 years and nobody cared. Actually most companies didn't even checked.

by i336_ 10y ago

jacquesm 10y ago

Thanks for those links. I read them originally but had forgotten.

i336_ 10y ago
The entire thread makes for insightful reading. I dug the links out last night and just reread the threads this morning.

sametmax 10y ago

The GAFAs are terrible example of what happens in the industry. They have challenges and behaviors the vast majority of companies don't have. But the world is still running because of millions of not-so-big companies. They have IT needs too. Actually the majority of IT jobs are NOT at IT companies, but in regular companies that need IT like anybody. I've been working in porn during my first 5 years and nobody cared. Actually most companies didn't even checked.