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They are also using deceptive advertising to users by promising them best coupon codes. But they don't apply the best coupon code even when they know about it.
One more thing to mention here is that Software Engineers are paid more because the industry is able to scale well to individual engineers outputs.
One thing where Software Engineers differ from a lot of others is asymmetric input and output. A single change in production can save millions of dollars easily. This is possible but difficult to do in other engineering fields like Construction, Hardware etc.
I am planning to do some DIY fix and going to donate it. There are many kids here in India who needs a digital device to do their online classes but have to use a small screen phone
Google has a dedicated organisation for maintaining all the infrastructure required for and around microservices. We are talking about 500-1000 engineers just improving and maintaining the infrastructure.
I don't have to worry about things like distributed tracing, monitoring, authentication, logs, logs search, logs parsing for exceptions, anamoly detection on logs, deployment, release management etc. They are already there and is glued pretty well that 90 percent of engineers don't even have to spend more than a day to understand all that.
Disclaimer- Google employee who is heavily using Spanner
Also taking down personal accounts seems more like an automated action where a graph of related accounts are taken down.
Disclaimer - Googler here whose workplace chat is not working.
A good writeup by Forbes.
Big ad companies and media houses need to put pressure against false advertisement. I have not seen a single article by any indian newspaper on this topic.
Offtopic-I would like this to blow up disproportionately because the only way whitehatjr is gonna backoff is because of a media backlash