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by kaczordon 1253 days ago
Hindsight is 20/20(pun). Did you sell all your stocks at the top in Jan 2022? No one can predict a recession otherwise they’d be billionaires.

How would you expect other people to predict that there would be a recession? IMO google tried to stave off layoffs for as long as possible.
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andromeduck 1252 days ago
The bar for onsite got rediculoisly low at on point. It varied quite a bit by org but many new hires were clearly not the same caliber as previous years.
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kaczordon 1252 days ago
THe BaR wAS HiGHeR WhEN i jOiNeD.

Just kidding(a little bit). So many smart people at google though in general the average caliber IME was always really high compared to other places.

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andromeduck 1252 days ago
Yeah I think I still better than a lot of places is judging by some of the candidates I interview but I think its still true in general that as CS has become more of a established profession and path to high income job the types of person persuing it has changed and the demand for CS degrees has caused colleges to dilute their CS programs quite a bit - especially in terms of number and choice of electives.
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