skj

Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).

Are you knocking the knockers? No one is suggesting they be arrested. They're just being ridiculed.

Pretty uncommon at tech companies, but it's entirely based on the company's policy. The company can fire you at any time (as long as it's not one of several specific bad reasons like racial discrimination), but it's the company that employs you, not your manager. So only the company can fire you.

Generally big tech companies don't give your manager the authority to blindly fire you, but only because that's a decision the company made.

My former boss too! That message was sort of the beginning of the end for the trust I had. Very disappointing.

Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.

What I tried, in a similar situation, was being clear that I did not support the company or its leadership and for them to never contact me again. It worked.

She didn't.

eh?

Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.

Little known fact: "Bob Dole has died" were his last words.

It's GCS.

When we designed the security model for Google Cloud Build (I do not work there anymore), we decided that containers were not valid security barriers. So, all partitioning was done on the VM and network (configured outside the VM) level.

It wasn't hard to convince anyone that this was the right way to handle things.

I don't think "this is a dangerous idea because people might need it to function" is a great take.

Last I checked, which was not recent, it was hosted out of an S3 bucket.

Google uses map reduce extensively... where it's appropriate.

True time helps with things like spanner transactions. It's just a totally different use case.