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It's this failure to engage with reality that will be their downfall. Hubris is at the root of it really, reinforced by the way they hire.
by stcroixx 3y ago
It's this failure to engage with reality that will be their downfall. Hubris is at the root of it really, reinforced by the way they hire.
- azemetre 3y agoI always wondered if the rise of ds&a/leetcode style interviews often hurt these companies more than helped? You are definitely screening for a certain type of engineer when hiring this way, especially when you want to hire 10,000 of them. You're basically filtering people who care more about optimizing their career than wanting to make a good product (nothing wrong with putting your career first, but you can't have the entire company made up of these people), but then again all the incentives at these companies reward short term thinking so it's probably beyond the interview level. Either way there needs to be way more competition in the entire tech space in all sectors. Competition would solve a lot of these issues if Google was forced to break up Chrome, Search, Ads, Android, and YouTube; same for the other big tech co's too. This amount of consolidation is bad for everyone.