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		paxys on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opted out, yet tracked: Are regulations enough to ... You know the government hires engineers already. A boat load of them in fact. Why do any of them choose to work there instead of Google?

nonethewiser on March 3, 2023 [–]

They don’t. They can’t get into Google.

kcartlidge on March 4, 2023 | [–]

> They don’t. They can’t get into Google.

There are many engineers (I'm one myself) who wouldn't even consider working for Google. It very definitely is not the case that all other options are second-bests chosen by someone who failed to get into Google.

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