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by jaredandrews 1489 days ago
> Shyu worked at Google as a tech lead on the YouTube app

> "Coding is a brutal 24/7 job, mutually exclusive with motherhood," Shyu said, saying that mothers would come back "obsolete and outdated" after maternity leave.

???

I mean the YouTube app is fine. But it's hard to believe that working on the _YouTube App_ of all things is a brutal 24/7 hour job which is so cutting edge that taking leave for a few months would make someone unable to work on it.