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Yeah, I follow one of their engineers on Twitter. She seemed like totally killer, someone any company would kill to have. Apparently Genius didn't think so.
by madamelic 10y ago
Yeah, I follow one of their engineers on Twitter. She seemed like totally killer, someone any company would kill to have.
Apparently Genius didn't think so.
- draw_down 10y agoThere are other reasons for letting people go than poor performance. Sadly.
- madamelic 10y agoI guess they decided against being a tech company and decided to go full media company where tech is a cost center and engineers are replaceable. I think the article hinted at that.
- crush_xc 10y agoLisa Wray?
- madamelic 10y agoYeah. :) I interviewed at Genius and started following her because of "Blondes make better engineers" tagline, it cracked me up.
- tedmiston 10y agoI met several members of their engineering team in Jan 2015 in Brooklyn after their first dev meetup where Tom debuted global web annotations. Every engineer there was top notch. You could tell by how much attention they dedicated to very meta level stuff.