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really? have a friend who interviewed there pre GM acquisition. said it was a colossal joke of a place, engineering wise. and hes worked at some sh*thole startu
by criticali 8y ago
really? have a friend who interviewed there pre GM acquisition. said it was a colossal joke of a place, engineering wise. and hes worked at some sh*thole startups, so i take his word for it.
honestly, it was 100% luck GM took notice of them. weren't many other alternatives around at that time. GM buying them spurred the explosion of self-proclaimed software/full stack self driving startups we see today.
So Im not as impressed with the achievements so far as I am with the absolute dumb luck these guys have had. Kudos, i guess.
- makes_me_go_hmm 8y agoI've noticed that when cruise articles pop up here on HN they reliably provoke someone to create a new account express this sentiment. Previous examples are this account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tmpnam1234567 and this user _Fricken: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=_Fricken, who based on choice of username seems to actually be impersonating the submitter of this thread. As to the validity of the criticism I have no idea, but it strikes me as very odd. edit: Fricken (no underscore) didn't actually submit this, but submitted the same article and is here in the comments.
- dang 8y agoIt's all the same person. In addition to having a 'friend' who 'interviewed' at Cruise, they've been an 'engineer' at Cruise, a 'founder' of Cruise, and also the 'cofounder' who left. We've banned all the trolling accounts we know about and their main account as well.
- Fricken 8y agoYes, I'm Fricken. I'm not _Fricken.