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One key differentiator in my opinion between Google and Huawei is how they treat their own employees and partners.

I've worked closely with Huawei on a number of projects and they really work their employees to the bone, with terrible code, non-existent procedures, and a stressfull existence for everyone involved as a result.

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Now that I think about it more, I think you're right. Huawei is not good. I remember about two months ago there was a github repository https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU made by Chinese programmers in protest of 996 work week. I bet Huawei enforces these long hours on their employees.

And Google phones are pooped out by unicorns?

What I mean of course is, are the workers making the components for Google products treated measurably better? My instinct suggests not, but they charge a lot more so they could probably afford to pay double what other manufacturers are paying their workers.

Yeah, I always forget about that. Of course somebody works on the factory and has to pee in the bottle. I'm wondering how is it really like for those who actually make stuff for giant corporations? I heard it's pretty bad, that these people are being exploited, but I also heard that it's not that simple and the conditions are not that bad actually, and the alternative is even worse.

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