alt Hacker NewsThis seems so… obvious? How can a company of this size, with its talent and expertise, not have standardized tests or specs preventing such a blatant flaw?
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Stuff like this was proposed to be added to standard interviews, but they were too busy reversing binary trees
Google does have a security review process on literally everything it launches.
Which is what makes this so notable. Did the security review not catch this, or did they choose to launch anyways because it was too hard to fix and speed was of the essence?
Security. The final frontier. Where no developer has ever bothered before.
in a company of this size ... left hand don't know what right hand is doing
Their “talent and expertise” is mostly in selling ads.
They probably used the in house AI tools to build this.
First of all, Google is a shell of the company it used to be.
That said, I’d actually argue there’s an evolutionary explanation behind this where at a certain size, and more importantly complexity, an oversight like this becomes even more likely, not less.