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>>pabs3+(OP)
Do you know what puzzles me most? How can software engineers work on something like this? Don't those paid engineers or involved ones have the balls or dignity to walk away? I'm just wondering how they would feel about this (if they feel anything at all). I mean, if I'd be in such a position and asked to push something like this I'd have walked away on the spot, no matter what you offer me. No one at Google is standing up against this? I really hope that if this ever sees the light of the day, somehow in the end this backfires badly on them.

>>liendo+Ba
Yup, we've lost, what, two or three generations of developers to an industry that'd do better work by digging holes and filling them in? It's my guess that this is also why so much programming nowadays looks like it's being done by the bottom 10% of talent.

They do it because the money, though. I turned down a FAANG job partly because I'd have to relocate across the US and partly because I didn't think I could sleep at night working for them. Total compensation package for first year was $250-350K depending on performance, and there was a signing bonus. This was 2015 or so.

I often half regret that decision, because it hurts to know I could've ticked that income box rather than fighting month after month to keep work coming in (self employed/contractor).