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I've long maintained that the majority of programmers working for Alphabet/Google/YouTube spent more time learning how to get the job than how to do the job well. There is a lot more to coding than "Cracking the Coding Interview."
It's not about building cool things over there. Is has not been that way for a long time. They just want the money and reputation.
I don't know. If I were a webdev at Google I would probably be against this nonsense as much as we are here. So I'd implement the most half assed 'blocking' of ad blockers possible knowing that the moron product manager who requested it won't be able to tell.
That's a great way to advance your career by the 'genius' kid that comes up with the much better way to do it and calls you out during a meeting while showing his already-written code that does much better than your senior dev self.
I partially disagree, the average developer at google is very competent, yet, their work pipelines must be so long and complex that such talent gets somewhat diluted