Only place I’ve ever seen it is the main stretch along Palm Beach on the Gold Coast

1st through 27th Avenues - they’re over 100 years old now funnily enough

I was surprised to find out they still have hardware repair technicians (extremely expensive but reliable: ~$400 per computer around 2022 iirc)

But yes they’re mostly enterprise/services/mainframes not anything overly consumer

No, IBM has Unisys contractors, not employees. All the techs I’ve worked with from IBM have been a nightmare. One dropped an entire drive array on the ground, and tried to install it despite it being bent and no longer fitting on the rack. I have been acquired by IBM twice. They are a nightmare, horrible company.

IBM has plenty of hardware techs. They're called system services representatives (SSRs) and if you got a Unisys contractor, that just means you're not spending enough money for IBM to send an SSR.

Someone get this in front of Tom Doak immediately

This seems to be largely an American phenomenon

In more minor markets like Europe/Australia it seems to be a lot less leetcode and a lot more (1) experience (2) degree (3) actual interview performance

This is more so because the US companies have been flooded with East / South Asian workers. The proliferation roughly tracks with a decrease in white (European) American representation in tech companies. US companies used to be much more like you described.

AtlasSian? Canva? Absolutely the same process in Australia. Smaller shops/contractors - sure.

At this point we have several

They’re all largely untestable though

String theory, LQG, half a dozen others

Likely once sufficient numbers of boomers die off - and their property inheriting children don’t take up their parent’s views

I mean one would take the ad with a grain of salt

If it gets people to pull the trigger on engaging with the firm - it’s likely to embellish how massive the changes are of these patent lapses

Your framing is correct

It’s company vs user not regression vs efficiency

(Australian not an American here)

You’d very quickly rise to the top of the public sector

My brother in law is only in his mid 20s and is in charge of half a dozen engineers

No nepotism (we honestly know no one) just leaping from the right firm to the public sector at the right time

Look for government consultant jobs or even better straight engineering roles

You must have gotten lucky that Accenture didn't infect your agency and shift large project engineering positions under them and then out to India.

In the EU, this is not possible. Public Sector accounts are unable to be staffed with Bangladeshi/Indians/Pakistanis etc. developers due to strict time zone requirements and GDPR regulations. They are also highly reluctant to near-shore, as they're dependent on people implementing local laws and regulations - meaning if you don't know the language, you're usually out.

The result of this is that Accenture and co. staff with local people on-site for public sector accounts.

Possibly at Federal

State and Local little chance they’re not that optimised

The problem with a lot of the “higher free variable” sciences like psychology, ecology and sociology etc

Is they are the ones who need to be at the bleeding edge of statistics but often aren’t

They absolutely need Bayesian competitive hypothesis testing but are often the least likely to use it