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Precisely what I felt skimming through the comments on the issue. A lot of high scale businesses have taken a huge risk. A company like Google had over 10y lon
by hirako2000 4y ago
Precisely what I felt skimming through the comments on the issue.
A lot of high scale businesses have taken a huge risk. A company like Google had over 10y long tenure engineers who were swept by the layoffs. The argument that the year prior was a hiring spree only makes it worse: now you have hands to throw at the problem but unlikely the right pairs, which, given the climate of job loss fear, aren't likely to admit they are incompetent.
Off topic, but this isn't an isolated case of mega size top tier companies seemingly dropping the ball more far often and/or with greater blast radius impacts. See github leaking secrets publicly on their own git repo.
Call me paranoid, but to me one of these things is going on:
1/ tipping point of too many under qualified for the job engineers running things, due to C-suites looking at keyboard monkeys the way they see factory workers, naively applying "cost cutting" measures, plucking through spreadsheets who "are the biggest seemingly disposable weights" and fire those as part of waves of x% layoffs
2/ Overworked remaining know-how crews - added the weight of dealing with inspiring politicians turned enginners for the juicy 200k + rsu package who, demand better articulated instructions, knowledge transfers and more comprehensive formal documentation materials, so that they too can shine too - on top. Competent folks having less and less time but more more tears and blue bags below their eyes finally realising that ain't worth it as it keeps getting worse anyway.
3/ sabotage
Or all those, since there could be some smowball effects there.
Call me paranoid, that it isn't what's going on, we clearly aren't seeing the slow fall of major infrastructures the few who were there to build them now having mostly packed their bag and long gone, replaced by swaths of bootcamp trophy coders hoarding cloud certificates like North korean generals like to collect shiny pins.
Maybe it isn't, the future is still in the making anyway, but I felt glimpses of that several years ago, then about each passing year, now every few months. like an seeing accelerating meteroite seemingly going away but which keeps looking bigger and bigger.
More so related to the topic: just drop drive as a centralized storage, there are e2e solutions out there and open source scripts to entirely migrate out of these wall gardens. You won't miss google sheets: you can still use it!