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I don't think Big Tech can be fixed, due to its Bigness. Size inevitably generates bureaucracy and bureaucratic behavior. Big companies want to do mass hiring and mass firing. Employees are considered interchangeable cogs in the machine. I'd be happy to learn of a counterexample, but I've never heard of one.

The only hope is that smaller companies resist emulating the big companies. The myth is that BigCo hiring practices are what spurred BigCo success, but the reality is that this myth has the cause and effect reversed.




I thought it was really brilliant when this friend shared that another friend hiring for a startup required the use of an AI coding assistant. Makes total sense in a startup context where code quality is second to speed and iteration.

But as these tools get better, where even Pichai is boasting of Google's use of AI in their codebase, I wonder how this will affect interviews at Big Tech and how they select candidates.




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