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I suspect that hype in the industry is at least to an extent something of an unavoidable side effect of hiring based on apparent enthusiasm.
by probablybroken 9y ago
I suspect that hype in the industry is at least to an extent something of an unavoidable side effect of hiring based on apparent enthusiasm.
- ex_amazon_sde 9y agoHype is worse that what people think: it create bubbles where constructive disagreement and criticism are quickly shunned. Amazon has (or had) a culture of encouraging criticism (as long as it's supported by reasonable explanations) to the point of harshness and this was quite effective at stopping hype. Grumpy engineers loved it, starry-eyed ones got hired elsewhere.
- type0 9y ago> Hype is worse that what people think: it create bubbles where constructive disagreement and criticism are quickly shunned. And sometimes constructive criticism is mistaken for hype and shunned by the management, you would hear: we always done it this way, why choose this new technology that might break things; so you have companies that are still using COBOL on the mainframes and don't see anything wrong with it, as well as store user passwords unencrypted.