IMO that SOP essay for higher-ed / graduate admissions was always a comical problems. People took a lot of help from relatives , senior friends, and even professional admission-essay-writers. The content was at best 25% truth and the rest were "what the univ admissions office wants to see" to secure an admit.
would not be surprised if upper management in these tech firms are paid handsome kickbacks by these contractor companies (bodyshopping / staffing agencies) to re-hire staff as contractors.
Many such staffing agencies firms, esp with those fewer than 100 staff, are known to be 'benami companies' and pay handsome kickbacks to the client's mgmt based on headcount hired (and hence the revenue generated) through them. Often these are routed through hawala method, and final payments made in foreign (or their respective native) countries , so would be hard to track
finally, after switching to 5GHz WiFi was the Zoom problem resolved?
asking because: Your comment reminded me of one article / discussion about Apple Devices causing huge network load , and hence delays, due to some map ping thingy.
I pasted that in a markdown -> html converter, saved the html locally, and opened it in browser.
also, the markdown opens well in Calibre ebook reader.