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RE: Engineering Culture
- hocuspocus 11y ago> If you let that culture fail you’ll end up like a post-2010 PayPal, a Pandora, a LinkedIn, a Dell, a GM, a 2000’s era Microsoft. Having LinkedIn in this list seems a bit unfair. Yes I'm sure they have a lot of non-engineer employees (they're making money and need salespeople, how dare they!) but something like Kafka doesn't come out of a company with no engineering culture.
- zerotolerance 11y agoThat's fair. I just find myself begging for an alternative. No other service I use ships with as many huge bugs. Feels like the only customer they care about are recruiters.
- zerotolerance 11y agoFurther, I think it would be absurd to suggest that there aren't brilliant engineers working at those companies. They've created awesome things that are only loosely related to their product. But I can hear the whip cracking from outside, and the compromise bleeds through into their products in the form of bugs, poor UX, and failure to iterate or innovate.