frostmatthew

Restaurants typically have fairly low profit margins, so there generally isn't a strong desire to spend limited free cash flow to upgrade/replace a point-of-sale system that's functioning satisfactorily.

Especially since it's not something capable of a significant ROI since the PoS system usually has little-to-no impact on either revenue or profit. A slow one could impact productivity - but this is rarely a bottleneck so in most cases there would be little gained by spending money to upgrade to a newer system.

> I've essentially stopped getting delivery which is a bad sign since I'm basically the target audience

Same, rarely ordered delivery pre-pandemic but then was ordering two or three times a month but eventually got sick of food taking over an hour to arrive from places only a mile or two away so stopped entirely (until discovering a nearby restaurant that does their own delivery and it's great - arrives within 20 or 30 mins and the food is always piping hot).

> the idea of asking people to write code during an interview what sort of revolutionary

And I think it's a great idea, personally I would never consider working anywhere that hired devs without seeing them write some code. But my problem is with the types of questions asked at many companies, specifically the types that require weeks (or months!) of prepping.

During my last job search one interview that stood out (positively) was a problem around parsing some HTTP headers (it started simple and then had layers of complexity added as I solved each one). It was honestly one of the best questions I've seen in an interview as it requires the candidate to be able to write code and solve a problem but without requiring/expecting the candidate to have prepped beforehand to learn (or brush up on) theoretical stuff far removed from the types of problems we actually solve on a daily bases (evidence of this disconnect is demonstrated by the fact people need to prep).

> Why would anyone be stupid enough to trust google to keep the "ad free" experience ad free?

One can cancel their YouTube Premium subscription at any time for any reason, including and especially if it is no longer delivering an ad-free experience. In the meantime I'm quite happy paying $10 a month (annual plan) to never see ads.

> if you pass in a negative number then that's your own dumb fault if it does something unexpected

If a negative number isn't valid input that should be gracefully handled by the program (e.g. by responding with an appropriate error indicating what is valid and/or invalid) instead of doing something unexpected.

I'm not much of a fan of the current state of tech interviews but seeking clarity around validity of input and how to react to invalid input is one aspect that does (or at least should) mimic "real life"