I had a theory that FAANG (et al.) are implicitly trying to solve the problem of developer salaries. If we take things back to basics: supply and demand. If y

I had a theory that FAANG (et al.) are implicitly trying to solve the problem of developer salaries. If we take things back to basics: supply and demand. If your biggest cost is developer salaries, then making a huge supply of developers is the best way to suppress those wages. I have long felt that the push to get women and minorities into coding was driven by this: to get as many people coding as possible so that supply was not constrained and developers could no longer name their price. I do not believe that Sundar carries Sergei's principles of making people want to work at google for a long time; I think of him more like a businessman (same as Tim Cook, actually). No strong principles, just pushing the company forward. For them the "company" is the C-Level and the branding and the partners. Not the employed.