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I also worked in Ad Tech - outside of a major tech area, it was the biggest, fastest growing tech employer around. The pay was only average for the area, but t
by adwww 7y ago
I also worked in Ad Tech - outside of a major tech area, it was the biggest, fastest growing tech employer around.
The pay was only average for the area, but the company clearly had money and was experiencing rapid growth which is always exciting.
As you mention, massive data sets, tens of billions of HTTP requests per day, etc, are simply not challenges you get outside of FAANG, so there was a lot of interesting work.
The really shady stuff only came to light once you'd worked there a while, and realised the entire industry is basically built on fraud and money laundering with almost nobody incentivised to stop it.
- rbinv 7y ago> tens of billions of HTTP requests per day Could you elaborate? Seems very high, even for ad impressions.
- fsaintjacques 7y agortb bid request volume can easily go 1m/sec, this is not impressions, but offers to buy for an impression.
- rbinv 7y agoMakes sense, thanks.
- cattlefarmer 7y agoIt's not often one can claim to have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in operating costs each month just by tweaking a few AWS settings. I definitely miss being able to work on such a large volume of data but at least I don't have to worry about PagerDuty anymore.