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There's some good points here. I don't have a degree and, as a senior in their late 20s, find myself teaching things I consider basic to CS graduates. I work i
by mmmeff 7y ago
There's some good points here. I don't have a degree and, as a senior in their late 20s, find myself teaching things I consider basic to CS graduates.
I work in one of the big 5. I keep finding myself wondering why we have 50+ engineers on our team when we can never deliver anything on time. Everything we build feels cumbersome, over-engineered, and overly-reliant on bespoke internal tooling that nobody outside of our company uses. After coming from startup land and building infinitely more useful products in a 10th of the time with 1-pizza teams, I wonder how the hell this gargantuan company can move around $1B market cap on wall street when its so inefficient and full of incompetent engineers.
It genuinely feels like we've reached peak too-many-cooks. I keep expecting mass layoffs to cull the fat but they never come. We just keep hiring more and more and more.
This can't be sustainable.
- lawrenceyan 7y agoIf you don’t mind saying, what company do you specifically work at currently?
- beeg_five 7y ago1. Facebook 2. Apple 3. Amazon 4. Netflix 5. Google 6. Microsoft 7. Oracle 8. IBM 9. Verizon, Yahoo, AOL, Tumblr, Flickr, Oath
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- scomp 7y agoSounds similar to my situation. I try and put it down to programmers like programming to justify why the devs here take the most complex route rather then the cheapest/fastest/reliable route.
- lazzlazzlazz 7y agoI've worked at several of the big five, as well as a couple smaller companies, and I can't say I've had a similar experience. As long as people are willing to deprecate, delete, and consolidate continuously like your sanity depends on it, the scope of problems seems to be constantly shifting as things improve. There will always be problems. Every time we solve one thing, we move to a place where we discover new kinds of issues. The question is whether we keep running into precisely the same kinds of issues over and over again, and in my experience, this has not been the case.
- mattrp 7y agoI’ve heard this type of speech before. It’s a very candid almost scary talk designed to shake you up and get you focused. The gist was don’t think this degree is all you need. If you get lax some jerk with a history degree is going to take your job and you’re going to flying airplanes full of rubber dog poop from Hong Kong (sorry for adding the top gun reference... for me everything boils down to 80s movie quotes). And these speeches are right - you can’t rest.