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Comment · 6 years ago
It is all china's fault, even the dotcom bubble. A sour loser always deflects his/her own fault.
Comment · 6 years ago
“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth”, - that is a propaganda technique.

Some countries so desperately want chaos in Xinjiang as in HongKong.

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Comment · 6 years ago
is it security flaw or backdoor?
Comment · 6 years ago
today they eliminate SAT subject test, tomorrow MIT will eliminate regulart SAT test
Comment · 6 years ago
I can project the going south of MIT.
Comment · 6 years ago
this is a great summary.
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Comment · 6 years ago
You can have free speech, but it is an authoritarian system.
Comment · 6 years ago
are you saying FANG likes slaves?
Comment · 6 years ago
It is very disrespectful.

My domain is backend distributed system and FB arranged a front end manager to interview me and he explicitly said I was matched to his team, WTH?? then the interview feedback was I do not have their expected skillsets.

Why waste my' time & effort?

Comment · 6 years ago
you nailed it: "They don’t want you for your productivity. They want you for the chance that you help surround one of their favorites with things they like"
Comment · 6 years ago
The post has a great point: because a single senior Googler decides that you're the wrong person to be hired.

there is no check and balance. It is about picking a person he/she likes.

And many senior Googlers work there for more than a decade, they do not understand external world and full of arrogance and self-correctness.

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