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Wha? A 24 hour engineering team? Who they hell did they think they were going to hire to do engineering at 3am? Maybe they mean quality control engineers for a
by Balgair 8y ago
Wha? A 24 hour engineering team? Who they hell did they think they were going to hire to do engineering at 3am? Maybe they mean quality control engineers for a 24 hour production line? Medtronic does this, but the QC guys are really only there for when the lines mess up.
- danso 8y agoRelevant excerpt from the book: > ED WAS WORKING late one evening when Elizabeth came by his workspace. She was frustrated with the pace of their progress and wanted to run the engineering department twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to accelerate development. Ed thought that was a terrible idea. His team was working long hours as it was... > Ed pushed back against Elizabeth’s proposal. Even if he instituted shifts, a round-the-clock schedule would make his engineers burn out, he told her. “I don’t care. We can change people in and out,” she responded. “The company is all that matters.” Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 28). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
- Balgair 8y ago> “I don’t care. We can change people in and out,” Yeah, that's a great person to work for right there.