In Australia, AWS dev position in 2021 had a take home. Microsoft contract position before that didn’t but they were desperate to fill seats on a poorly executed gov contract.

GitHub (pre-microsoft at least) and Crowdstrike both did. Amazon didn't have a take home so much as a "prove you can write code with this simple problem" though that was also pre-AI days as well.

> Basically all big companies doing industrial scala hiring ( and firing)

Is Scala the right choice for hiring and firing, though? If they need to fire quickly, why not straight machine code?

I believe this is a typo for SCADA, which would control the industrial machinery used to fire employees in order to ensure distance and accuracy.

to pretend that they care about safety