[skynetv2]

When I was working there, I was surprised how many engineers did NOT work. I would see people watching Netflix all day, hitting the gym twice a day, sitting in cafes and chatting, taking tours of various cafes, even driving 30m each way to a different campus to eat at that cafe, sitting around to eat dinner while watching movies. They would get large groups of friends to dinner so they can eat for free, dick around all day, run after nonsense issues, create trouble, social justice warriors of all kinds ... there was one case I was completely baffled - a new hire wanting to change government policies around how contractors are paid and somehow it was Google HR problem to solve it.

My own org was different, people were very productive and I struggled to keep up but this was the exception. Maybe because were in Infra and focussed on results oriented systems research. Most teams in infra were like this, infra teams were hard.

Everyone else was a different world. I did not envy them but its no surprise with the headcount they have, they are struggling to justify the numbers. They can cut 30% of the workforce and still be fine.

[Bakary]

I mean why work hard if they don't force you to? It's not like it's an orphanage or a power-plant or something, but a gigantic data-siphoning ad company.

[antisthenes]

Life's easy when you're a rent-extracting monopoly in the richest market on the planet.