You might be surprised. I sent out approximately 1200 applications in 2024 while unemployed for nine months, and with over thirty interviews, I only got a single offer, which was Meta.
How can we even call it aggression for China to act in the China Sea? We are the ones bringing guns half-way around the world to their doorstep. This is US aggression, and we have no right to keep acting like the dictators of the planet.
The problem I'm concerned about is that by subsidizing security for some companies, and presumably mostly the big existing ones, we're effectively penalizing all of the competing companies who pay for their own security. If you iterate this long enough in the natural selection of the market, the FBI is effectively making it unprofitable to even try to be secure.
It feels really terrible that the FBI is consuming vast amounts of our tax money to help idiotic American corporations from leaking secrets. If those companies are so lax in security, I say let them die. Or at least don't continue holding up their corpses indefinitely on my dime!
If you as a hiring manager have the choice to pick between two candidates, one of whom stays cool and productive under pressure, and the other who goes blank in emergencies, which would you prefer to have on your team? Stressful situations can occur in software engineering, including for example a moment where you realize production services are broken because of code you just deployed.
I am more nervous about the current state of humanity. In 2020, 98.2% of the country voted for political parties which explicitly endorse via congress military occupations of over 80 foreign countries, and nonstop bombing of civilians and children every day for the past two decades. Americans absolutely could not care less about the negative consequences of war already.