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>>After nearly 20 years of Code Jam, it's time to say goodbye. While Code Jam will not continue as planned, we invite you to participate in our Competitions' Farewell Round on Saturday, April 15 at 14:00 UTC.

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Appears answer is staff responsible were laid off:

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-did-google-cl...

Bummer! Had a lot of reach and great tool to encourage future engineers. These events make it seem like the era of big fancy cool tech companies is over. Of course you have the emergence of other tech companies like open AI.

Wow. I have to agree that knowing the reason for this tarnishes my image of Google by bringing home the reality of the layoffs.

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