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Speaking as a former eBay engineer.

The criticism is that it isn't React, and that nobody uses it but eBay.

There's nothing really wrong with it other than that there's no reason for it to exist when other frameworks work fine and have community traction. There's nothing special about eBay that requires it's own special UI framework.

And when we hire contractors to do anything they won't touch Marko so we have to use React anyway on a lot of projects.

Just not an efficient way to spend the companys money creating and maintaining a superfluous framework nobody asked for.

5 Years of Pop _OS 4 years ago

I have used Pop_os for the last year; it has enough bugs and wasted enough of my time that I finally switched to Windows just to see if I can put up with it; I'll probably revert to Ubuntu in a few months. WSL2 makes windows more livable but it's still janky.

I'm a nerd but that doesn't mean I have time to mess with bugs.

Federal employees and contractors are subject to regular and random urinalysis. Until marijuana is legalized at the federal level (which has been passed by the house but is not yet law) you could be terminated for marijuana.

I went this route. Once you are in QA it is extremely difficult to get out. Everybody views you as "a tester" no matter how good your development skills are. If you genuinely want to be in QA as your career, or if you are truly desperate for work and willing to spend the 5 years or so it will take for you to dig yourself out of QA, then do it. It worked for me. But if you really want to dev, do not take a QA job unless you really can't find a dev job.

This is silly. The pay is really good, we have nothing to complain about. And everyone is responsible for managing their own work life balance. If a team is pushing you too hard, find a team that you can handle. It's a big company. It can only get to you if you let it.