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> Fun (but possibly apocryphal) fact: more than a decade ago in a social gathering of SREs at Google, several admitted to being on the payroll of some national intelligence bureaus.

They had government engagements with Google's consent, and all those various engagements could be disclosed to each other?

If not, what kind of drugs were flowing at this social gathering, to cause such an orgy of bad OPSEC?

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Knowing google employees, it's coke. Lots of coke

At last, an explanation for their fratbro interviews.

Could you explain? Never been exposed to fraternities or Google.

Ritualistic hazing of newcomers is a large part of american "frat" culture.

What the parent is likely referring to is: Things like "Wearing the noogler hat" or the hoops you jump through in interview (that have nothing to do with the job) are similar in spirit to some university fraternities admission processes, or are depicted as such in media.

Yes, also the latent class filtering, and the general "coked-up fratbro" behaviors, like enthusiastically and energetically pursuing ideas that make no sense. (No sense includes hiring for people who obsessively focus their time on memorizing and rehearsing for the rituals to get into that one frat.)

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