is this a sign that finding developers is not that hard anymore, and they don't need to organize these competitions with the hiring budget?
nah, it's google shutting down a random thing like always
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#222Interesting that just a few days ago they posted about opening basically the same thing but focused on ML https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/02/MLOlympiad2023.htm... Interesting contrast and I guess a sign of the changing tides.
Bingo! It just means that developer as a job is on the way out and in 20 years everyone is going to be a prompt engineer. Hence getting rid of coding competitions and sponsoring ML competitions instead.
That's a good point, they probably couldn't think of a good way to prevent cheating with ML assist. They even have their own AlphaCode that'd beat most competitors.
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#223Before jumping on the "Google is now Oracle" bandwagon, curious with anyone with even a little inside baseball knowledge can comment on the reasoning behind this. Because if it's for penny-pinching, "we need to be more efficient" reasons, then yeah, I'm ready to jump on the bandwagon too. But someone else posited it may be more that they want to focus on new skills needed for AI, for example (i.e. "Software 2.0" vs.…
Maybe they thought everyone would just plug it in to chatGPT
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#224It seems all of the things that made Google an attractive company to work for have been slowly fading away through the recent years. Many of these big tech companies started off being scrappy and fun, which arguably is what made them so innovative.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Know what's even worse than Google on autopilot? Microsoft.
A Tesla?
Let me say it: HN would be a better place without the obligatory downvotes for MS-critical posts. The other large companies' employees somehow avoid doing this, why can't you? Are you really that insecure?
('you' here not meaning the poster I just commented, but, well, you know who.)
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#227They still hold coding competitions, they just call them job interviews and take all the fun/fun parts out of it and cause you to hate programming puzzles instead of loving them
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#228We could lament them shutting it down, but why not thank them for doing this for 20 years? That's a LONG time to do anything, and despite what Google has become, it absolutely defined tech culture. Now it's obvious and commonplace, but an employee-centric company was revolutionary at the time. Things like this changed the lives of every single person here, either directly or indirectly. And best yet, it's a chance fo…
> and despite what Google has become, it absolutely defined tech culture. I don't think that was a good thing.
Some things were good, some things were bad. It's nuanced.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again - what difference does it make to your life, aside from empire-building, to have an extra $100m? Nothing. It's just greed.
It's ability to do things and have an impact on the world. You can afford to try out crazy projects that require enormous amounts of capital. Obviously no one needs this, but there are plenty of things to spend your money on that isn't buying 30 of the same thing.
How much does that motivate a person though?
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#230Is there any other, more gracious, way to interpret this as Google retiring for on being Google, if so I’d like to know. I think the direct impact of these competitions to hiring were minimal. The biggest impact was to have thousands perhaps millions of coders and researchers see Google as the place to be. As the place that gets it. The Mecca of coderdom, if you will. Now they are just another corporation. I hope the…
> Now they are just another corporation. the Google Summer of Code still exists (and that other program for high school kids I think). I think those were the nicest things they did back in the day, and I don't know of any other corp doing it.
Looks like Summer of Code is still happening in 2023: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/02/mentor-organizatio...